When lawyer Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty to election interference in Atlanta late last month, she tearfully told the judge: “If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges.”

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Kenneth Chesebro, another attorney who pleaded guilty in the Fulton County case for his role advising the former president during his effort to reverse his 2020 defeat, also no longer believes the claims still voiced by Trump and many of his allies that the election was stolen. “If you ask Mr. Chesebro today who won the 2020 presidential election,” said his lawyer, Scott Grubman, “he would say Joe Biden.”

But more recently, a novel defense is emerging from two of Trump’s remaining 14 co-defendants in a case alleging a vast conspiracy to steal the 2020 election through a pressure campaign that included cajoling state officials, harassing local election workers and urging Trump electors to cast ballots in seven states that Biden won.

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The argument? The 2020 election really was stolen.

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Lawyers for one of those defendants, Harrison Floyd, appeared in court Friday morning to argue why their client is entitled to thousands of pages of election records from Fulton County and the Georgia secretary of state.

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