Sidney Powell was one of Donald Trump’s top legal warriors. Now she could be a star witness in the sweeping Fulton County indictment against the former president and his allies.
On Thursday’s episode of the Politically Georgia podcast, the hosts discuss Powell’s guilty plea hours before she was set to face a criminal trial over her efforts to help Trump undermine the 2020 election results.
Senior AJC editor Shannon McCaffrey, co-host of the Breakdown podcast, describes Powell’s plea as a game-changing development that gives prosecutors access to a member of Trump’s “inner circle.”
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As the only Jewish member of the Georgia Legislature, Democratic state Rep. Esther Panitch plays a dual role representing both her Sandy Springs-based district and the broader Jewish community at the state Capitol.
She joins the show to discuss how her role has changed amid the escalating Hamas-Israel war, along with divisions in her party over how the U.S. should respond to the violence.
Panitch also talks about a now-deleted tweet, sent as the attack was unfolding, that questioned whether far-left Democrats in Congress were “celebrating” the assault. She later deleted the tweet and apologized for the “cheap shot.”
“It’s hard. It’s not an easy thing to do,” she said of retracting her social media post. “And not because I’m worried about a primary. If they bring it, bring it. I’m not afraid.”
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