This GOP operative went from hating dirty politics to being a Trump co-defendant
Although special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis are both leading criminal prosecutions of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, there are some key differences between their cases. Legal experts have been describing Smith's case as lean and mean and Willis' as broad and expansive.
Willis' indictment lists 18 of Trump's allies as co-defendants. And Willis, unlike Smith, is using RICO laws in her prosecution.
One of those co-defendants is Cathy Latham, a local GOP operative in Georgia who, Willis alleges, was part of Trump's conspiracy to overturn President Joe Biden's victory in her state. And Latham, according to Willis, was part of the fake electors scheme.
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The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, in an article published on September 20, examines Latham's place in the indictment and her post-2020 election activities. .
Pagliery notes that the Beast interviewed Latham about three months before she was indicted. Ironically, Latham claimed to hate dirty politics in the past.
"In May 2022, at her home some 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, Latham sat down with The Daily Beast for a 90-minute interview about her whirlwind of life-changing experiences in the maelstrom after the 2020 election," the reporter explains. "During that interview, she lied about her role in the secretive operation to tap into her county's election equipment, a deceit that we exposed at the time — prompting a federal judge to greenlight investigative subpoenas to probe further."
Pagliery continues, "But now that she has been formally indicted alongside several of the people who took part in that mission, some of what she shared during that sit-down carries new significance that Fulton County prosecutors could further explore."
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