# Trump Power Grab Comes Into Focus in Leaked Georgia Videos  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Ella Lee]] - Full Title:: Trump Power Grab Comes Into Focus in Leaked Georgia Videos - Category: #articles - URL: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4309830-trump-power-grab-leaked-georgia-videos/ ## Highlights > The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances,” then-White House deputy chief of staff [Dan Scavino](https://thehill.com/people/dan-scavino/) told ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, according to Ellis’s testimony to Fulton County prosecutors a day before she entered her guilty plea. > “We are just going to stay in power,” he said. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvyy91mtf7s5b5967306wth)) > The entire idea behind the indictment is that [Donald Trump](https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/) was driving the bus and doing so in a way that was only intended to secure power,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University. “To the extent that this kind of evidence supports that theory, I think it’s really damning to the good-faith justifications that have been put out by his allies and his attorneys.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvyyxfg6zfqmzs4wphzgmdk)) > In another excerpt of her interview, Ellis told prosecutors that she believed the alternate electors plot, in which Trump and his allies allegedly sought to produce a different slate of pro-Trump electors to be certified in key swing states, was intentionally kept a secret. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvyzxdm1pe6aavzz42kj1jk)) > I think the way that they’re going to attempt to package this to a jury is to show that Donald Trump was not the passive recipient of bad information,” Kreis said. “He was, in fact, a bad-faith actor who was designing the entire scheme to overturn the election, and when every attempt to overturn the election failed, he would work with another person in his orbit to concoct another plan and move on to that plan. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvz1w56dxvh129eey67n4cd)) > There was a systemic approach — a kind of methodical approach — to trying to overturn the election, and I think the kinds of questions we saw [from Fulton County prosecutors] are consistent with that,” he continued. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvz25pgea77s8g5ryjqqdwy)) > opposite.” > “That’s really what we have here; we have a slow building of witnesses who can say and testify to the idea that Donald Trump precisely knew that he did not win the election,” he said. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvz2x8a2ejkmwtmz4pg35tz)) > To the extent that Donald Trump was accepting the information that he wanted to hear and rejecting the information he didn’t — it doesn’t make him a good-faith actor,” Kreis said. “[It] undermines the argument that he was acting in good faith and investigating. Rather, he was looking for ways to secure power any way he could.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfvz44t1byympeq2nchgy57q))