CNN Sources Say SIX More Trump Co-Defendants In Talks To Flip — Blitzer Calls Plea Deals ‘Really Really Bad News’ For Trump

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer called the election crimes plea deals “really really bad news” for ex-President Donald Trump amid reports a whopping six additional co-defendants have discussed plea deals.

Four of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election crimes case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis have already taken plea deals — pro-Trump attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, and Trump supporter and former Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall.

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, CNN Senior Crime And Justice Reporter Katelyn Polantz detailed a new blockbuster report that at least six Trump co-defendants have been in talks to join that growing club:

Wolf, we now know that at least six co-defendants of Donald Trump have had plea deals put on the table before them, and we’re waiting to see what they do.

So, right now, 19 defendants, four of them, already took plea deals. Those four people all agreed to cooperate. That includes some top lawyers. And with those initial plea deals, Sidney Powell’s, Jenna Ellis’, Scott Hall’s, and Ken Cheseboro’s, the dominoes then start to fall. And so prosecutors go reach out to others, these six others, at least six other co-defendants, to see if they want to take deals. Those are people like a campaign official, another pro-Trump lawyer. And so we’re going to wait and see what happens with them.

…We do know from our team of reporters that there are four people right now who haven’t been offered plea deals in this case that are on the table from Fulton County, Georgia. Those are some of the biggest names in this case, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and, of course, Donald Trump himself. So, no offers of guilty pleas for those four from the Georgia prosecutors at this time.

CNN’s report indicates that one of those six, Robert Cheeley, was offered a deal and turned it down according to Cheeley’s attorney.

Blitzer asked CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen how worried Trump should be, and agreed this is “really, really bad news” for Trump:

BLITZER: Norm, in the Georgia case, how worried should Trump be about prosecutors discussing potential plea deals now with at least six additional co-defendants?

EISEN: He should be very worried, Wolf, and so should the other individuals who are at the very top of the caption of this indictment, Meadows, Giuliani, Eastman, because with the three plea deals that we have from lawyers who are involved already, they are powerful witnesses against Trump and the others, and now, six more. Fani Willis is masterfully working her way, as we say, up the food chain to the big fish. It should be very anxiety-provoking.

And I’m looking for the next plea deal to be in the area of those threats and intimidation against the election workers. We haven’t seen somebody flip there yet. That may be one of the other unnamed targets of a plea deal to build this case out.

BLITZER: Good point for Trump. These plea deals are really, really bad news, legal news for him.

Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.

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