A co-defendant from the Georgia criminal case against former President Donald Trump and others that alleges election interference is set to provide trial testimony, a new report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said.
The defendant is Scott Hall, who recently took a plea deal after criminal allegations that originated with his part of an elections data breach in Georgia’s Coffee County. The same set of circumstances helped spur charges from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell — another of the many defendants in the Trump case, and it’s at a forthcoming trial for Powell and co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro that Hall is expected to testify.
“Hall recently pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts in a deal with prosecutors and is expected to testify at Powell’s upcoming trial,” the Journal-Constitution said. Powell and Chesebro are going to trial what could be substantially before the rest of the defendants after they requested a speedy trial, and Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee recently rejected one set of arguments from Powell against her charges as a whole, finding the complaints on substance that she was making were better left for later stages of the proceedings.
As for Hall, he was directly involved in what transpired in Coffee County, where a Trump-aligned group of individuals covertly copied data from local elections as part of what was effectively a nationwide effort to find evidence for the debunked fraud claims that Trump’s circles were making. “The SullivanStrickler team then spent the next seven hours inside the election office working, and Hall was there for much of the day overseeing collection, according to court records,” as reported by a Georgia news outlet, 11Alive. Available details also indicate he helped get the whole process moving, having gotten in touch with the now former chairwoman of the county Republican Party — who has also been charged in the case.
