Unlike federal prosecutors – who kept their indictments carefully restricted to easily understood and more provable infractions, with few co-defendants – Willis went big. Under the agreement, Powell entered a guilty plea in six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to intentionally interfere with the election in Georgia, a state that President Joe Biden won narrowly. And it's bad for Trump," O'Brien says. Trump once considered appointing Powell as a special counsel investigating election fraud in late 2020, after he lost the election. Her guilty plea, entered in a Fulton County courthouse Thursday, means Powell is formally acknowledging her role in attempting to subvert the election Trump lost.

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Persons: Fani Willis, Donald Trump, –, – Willis, Rudy Giuliani, Scott McAfee, Willis, Sidney Powell, Trump, Scott Hall, Hall, Kevin O'Brien, Ford O'Brien Landy, O'Brien, Powell, Joe Biden, it's, Mai Ratakonda, Ratakonda, Giuliani, It's, Neal Katyal, Barack Obama Organizations: Fulton, Trump, United Democracy Center, of Locations: Fulton County, Coffee County, New York City, Georgia, of Georgia