An attorney for one of the 19 co-defendants in District Attorney Fani Willis’ RICO criminal election fraud prosecution is admitting he leaked the bombshell videos first published by ABC News and The Washington Post that show former Trump attorneys making admissions damaging to Donald Trump.
Jonathan Miller, the attorney representing indicted former Coffee County elections director Misty Hampton, on Wednesday told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee (photo) he leaked the videos.
“In being transparent with the court and to make sure no one else gets blamed for this, and so I can go to sleep tonight, I did release those videos to one outlet,” Miller said, according to Atlanta News First. He did not indicate which outlet.
“This is [a] very public trial,” Miller added when asked why. “We all know that. This allows the DA’s office to set the tone for the entire trial without giving consideration to the other side of the coin. The public has a right to know.”
“Well, that’s a good slogan,” McAfee responded, The Daily Beast reported. “But do we have any case law that says pretrial discovery is part of our First Amendment concerns?”
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Hampton, one of the lesser-known co-defendants, “was present in the county elections office on Jan. 7, 2021, when forensic experts from SullivanStrickler were allowed to copy software and data from the county’s election equipment. That data was later distributed through a file-sharing website,” Fox5 Atlanta has reported.
“Additionally, Hampton was caught on surveillance video allowing two men who were active in challenging the result of the 2020 election results into the elections office on Jan. 18, 2021. The two men spent almost 4 hours there that night and more than 9 hours there the next day. Hampton told the Washington Post that she opened the office to the two men because she did not trust the results of the election,” Fox5 added.
Judge McAfee “gave no indication that he would punish Miller for leaking the videos,” according to The Daily Beast.
Atlanta News First’s Doug Reardon posted video of Miller’s admission to the judge.
Watch below or at this link.
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