CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday that Sidney Powell poses a “bigger threat” to former President Donald Trump than Kenneth Chesebro.
Chesebro pleaded guilty on Friday in the Fulton County case involving Trump. Chesebro’s plea came after Trump’s other lawyer, Powell, pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor charges and must testify against her co-defendants in future proceedings and write a written apology as part of the plea.
Chesebro’s lawyer said on CNN recently that while his client did acknowledge he helped prepare false documents, he did not implicate anyone else.
“He implicated himself,” Chesebro’s attorney, Scott Grubman, told CNN. (RELATED: CNN Senior Legal Analyst Names One Key Thing To Look Out For In Potential Plea Deal For Trump Co-Defendant)
Honig said Chesebro did indirectly implicate others but did not specify who.
“He did implicate people because he admitted that he was part of a conspiracy which definitionally involves more than one person,” Honig said, noting that prosecutors even “named off the other people that the prosecutors believe were part of the conspiracy.”
“It may well be that Chesebro is not able to say ‘I ever spoke directly with Donald Trump.’ But by saying ‘yes, there was this conspiracy, there was this agreement between me and others to commit a crime,’ that does implicate other people. But I do think that Sidney Powell is the bigger threat to Donald Trump because we know that she had direct contact with Donald Trump. So if I was Trump I’d be primarily worried about Powell, secondarily worried about Kenneth Chesebro.”
Chesebro was accused of creating fake electors to help Trump win Georgia, with Chesebro’s counsel arguing he was simply trying to offer legal counsel to Trump. Prosecutors allege Trump was trying to use electors to help flip states he lost.