Sacks @ 01:40:18Wrong
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In the Georgia 2020 election RICO case, prosecutors will use plea deals with lower‑level defendants like Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro to attempt to secure cooperation from higher‑level figures such as Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, and will then attempt to use any such testimony against Donald Trump, though these lower‑level witnesses will not themselves provide direct incriminating evidence sufficient to convict Trump without such higher‑level flips.
I think what's likely happening is that they're flipping these lower level figures in order to flip the next higher level, which would be Giuliani and John Eastman, because I don't think these people have anything on Trump. So they're going to try and, you know, use Jenna Ellis to flip Rudy, and then they're going to try and see if Rudy will flip on Trump.View on YouTube
Explanation
Key elements of Sacks’ prediction did not play out as described.
- Lower‑level defendants did flip, but they did have “something on Trump.” Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Scott Hall all took plea deals in October 2023 that required them to provide information that could be used against the remaining defendants, including Trump.(fultongrandjury.com) Their recorded proffer sessions describe Trump’s inner‑circle saying he would not leave office, Powell’s direct communications with Trump about seizing voting machines, and Chesebro’s role in the fake‑elector scheme—material that legal analysts characterized as damaging evidence against Trump, not mere leverage to reach others.(abc11.com) This directly contradicts Sacks’ claim that these figures “don’t have anything on Trump.”
- Prosecutors did not, in practice, flip Giuliani or Eastman. Reporting on the Fulton County DA’s strategy indicated Trump, Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani were not being offered plea deals, with prosecutors instead aiming to take them to trial.(theguardian.com) John Eastman maintained a not‑guilty plea and never entered into a cooperation deal.(en.wikipedia.org) So the envisioned chain—use Ellis to flip Giuliani, then Giuliani to flip on Trump—never occurred.
- The Georgia case ended without any trial of Trump, so the projected use of this testimony at his trial never happened. After DA Fani Willis was disqualified, new prosecutor Pete Skandalakis assumed control and, on November 26, 2025, moved to drop all remaining charges against Trump and his co‑defendants, formally ending the Georgia election‑interference prosecution.(reuters.com) As a result, there was no opportunity to test Sacks’ scenario that only higher‑level flips could provide incriminating evidence sufficient to convict Trump.
Overall, while Sacks correctly foresaw that lower‑level defendants would take plea deals, his core assertions—that they lacked incriminating information on Trump, that they were mainly being used to flip Giuliani and Eastman, and that this flip‑up strategy would define the case against Trump—were not borne out by subsequent developments. Hence, the prediction is best classified as wrong.