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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Note: these are not trump mugshots, but of the other people.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not just other people, other co-conspirators.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah well still hard to get excited, Cohen went down how many years ago?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I forgot the exact wording. Something like "Unnamed Co-consiprator #1, who later became president of the US". Still no consequences.

[–] jantin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Website not available in the EU due to GDPR

I recommend not clicking, such clauses usually mean there's some scummy bs running in the background.

[–] BagOfHammers@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I changed the link to msn/yahoo

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[–] CarGoFast23@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Disingenuous.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope Scott Hall remembers that little smirk he gave in the mugshot when he's getting his ass kicked in prison for being a little bitch.

[–] Seigest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whould they even go to real prison? The rich typically seem to hire private security firms to make their home a "prison". They are under house arrest, but when home is a luxury mansion it's not justice.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The same reason mobsters go to real prison despite being rich.

[–] brothershamus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

John Eastman: John Eastman

Eastman devised and promoted a six-step plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden’s victory while presiding over the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021. He also urged Georgia state lawmakers to appoint fake GOP electors to replace the legitimate slate of Democratic electors.

A bipartisan array of legal scholars have said Eastman’s schemes were unconstitutional.

Eastman also was referenced, though not explicitly by name, as an unindicted co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal election subversion case against Trump.

Scott Hall: Scott Hall mugshot
Irony alert: "Scott Hall, who works as a bail bondsman in Atlanta,"

The Fulton County grand jury indictment accuses Hall of conspiring to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting machines at the Coffee County election office on January 7, 2021. Hall is facing seven charges, including the racketeering count that’s central to Willis’ prosecution, as well as several charges stemming from the Coffee County allegations.

He spent hours inside a restricted area of the Coffee County election office when voting systems were breached in January 2021. The breach was connected to efforts by pro-Trump conspiracy theorists to find voter fraud. Hall was captured on surveillance video at the office, on the day of the breach. He testified before the grand jury in the Fulton County case and acknowledged that he gained access to a voting machine.