That's an interesting article because it highlights how much influence Trump has been able to wield by paying for the lawyers of other potential witnesses and defendants.
Trump is reportedly not paying the legal bills of any of those indicted in the Georgia case:
>>>As former President Donald Trump and his army of lawyers prepare for his formal surrender on Thursday, a harsh new reality is emerging for the co-defendants charged alongside him in Georgia: Their legal bills are about to skyrocket, and it appears no help is on the way from Trump.
“I was reliably informed Trump isn’t funding any of us who are indicted,” attorney and co-defendant Jenna Ellis
said Friday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.<<<
Donald Trump is under pressure to help his allies with legal bills. Fees for multiple probes and indictments could easily climb into the millions.
www.cnbc.com
I strongly suspect that once the other defendants get their own lawyers, these lawyers will advise them to cut a deal rather than sacrifice their lives for Trump. When faced with many years of incarceration and financial ruin, how many people are going to hold out?
Trump has an unpleasant choice. He can stop covering the legal fees of others in order to conserve PAC money in an effort to win the GOP primary. However, this would greatly increase the odds that people will start flipping. If he keeps paying the legal fees, he will likely run out of PAC money well before the primaries are completed, which would reduce his chances of winning the nomination
Of course, he could run out of PAC money even if he doesn't pay the legal fees of the other Georgia defendants. And, it;s quite possible that at least some defendants will flip even if he does pay their legal fees.
The Georgia case is a monster with a million possible outcomes. Perhaps we should start a pool (similar to the NCAA brackets) where everyone picks which defendants flip, which ones succeed in getting their case removed to federal court, which ones make it to a jury, which ones are convicted, which ones are acquitted, which ones win on appeal after a conviction, and which ones go down with the ship of fools (I'm predicting that the prosecutor offers the Easter Bunny a sweet plea deal and he jumps ship at the earliest possible opportunity).