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Politics
Tatyana Tandanpolie

Did a major MAGA lawyer flip on Trump?

One of the most prolific peddlers of the false claims that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud, attorney Lin Wood, appears to have flipped on the former president, becoming a state witness in Trump and 18 other defendants' sprawling racketeering case in Georgia, Fulton County prosecutors revealed Wednesday. Buried in Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis' 103-page filing arguing that lawyers for Trump's co-defendants may have conflicts of interest, according to The Messenger, prosecutors listed Wood as one of the individuals serving as "witnesses for the state" in the case, which alleges the 19 defendants conspired to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. A special purpose grand jury had recommended Wood be indicted, but prosecutors declined.

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