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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump faces new peril in federal 2020 election case after lawyer pleads guilty

Donald Trump delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on 9 October 2023.
Donald Trump delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, this month. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Donald Trump’s chances of being convicted in the federal 2020 election subversion case may have increased after his top election lawyer took a plea deal in the 2020 election case in Fulton county and admitted that the effort to create fake slates of electors was fraudulent.

The immediate consequence of Kenneth Chesebro’s plea deal is that he could incriminate the former president in Georgia, given one of his plea conditions involved testifying truthfully against other defendants.

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