MAGA Wants To Abolish Plea Deals To Save Donald Trump

Trump supporters are calling for the abolition of plea deals in a last-ditch attempt to save Donald Trump, but others are combatting that, saying "clearly the facts weren't on her side."

The former president suffered blows this week as four of his 18 co-defendants in an election subversion case in Georgia have now pleaded guilty in exchange for lesser charges, thus weakening his defense in the trial surrounding his actions around the 2020 election.

The latest to do so was Jenna Ellis, one of the Republican's former lawyers, who, in a deal with Fulton County prosecutors, agreed to face five years of probation, perform 100 hours of community service, and pay a $5,000 fine in restitution after pleading guilty to one felony charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writings.

Meanwhile, other former Trump lawyers, Kenneth Chesebero and Sidney Powell accepted deals last week, and in September, bail bondsman Scott Hall also struck a plea deal with prosecutors.

Reacting to the news, Trump supporters claimed figures like Ellis were pleading guilty despite being innocent out of pressure from prosecutors or to face less severe consequences.

Brandon Straka, who founded the #WalkAway campaign to encourage people to leave the Democratic Party, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that "The plea deal system must be abolished."

"This is how evil, corrupt prosecutors are getting innocent people to plead guilty in their lunatic pursuit to get Donald Trump," he added.

"Jenna Ellis is not guilty.

"None of this would be happening if these prosecutors were forced to PROVE their cases, and not abuse the law by hideously overcharging people to the point of overwhelming them financially, emotionally, and practically—then saying, 'all of this goes away if you just plead guilty, and apologize publicly for a wrongdoing that we're making up'.

"The media (which once existed to challenge the establishment, but is now the VOICE of the establishment) is 100% complicit in all of this. I don't believe for a second that any of these people are 'flipping on Trump' because the media says so.

"What the media wants more than anything is to destroy conservative America. They want to orchestrate division, sew mistrust, cause people to turn on each other, and destroy people's lives. They have only one job- aid and abet the evil dealings of the Democrat Party.

"Don't fall for any of their lies and their narratives."

One X user, Laura Haupt, replied to his post and said: "I agree. It's really breaking my heart to see people I once admired, capitulating to propaganda to save themselves when they're outright lying. What has happened to the American soul?"

However, others suggested the legal system was fair.

One X user said: "She pled guilty. That means she's guilty. She could have gone to court to beat the charges, but clearly the facts weren't on her side.

And another replying to Straka said: "You don't understand how court works do you. Her attorneys reviewed the evidence that The Prosecuting attorneys presented and realized her sentence could be very different at the end of a trial."

The Georgia case is one of Trump's four criminal cases and one of two specifically surrounding his actions around the 2020 election.

In the other case, a judge in Washington, D.C, has set March 4, 2024, as the start date for the former president's criminal trial on federal charges related to his efforts to overturn the result.