One of the lesser known people swept up in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' RICO indictment related to former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election result was Stephen Lee, an Illinois-based pastor accused of trying to pressure a Georgia election worker into falsely confessing to committing fraud.
The Washington Post reports that, unlike some other defendants such as attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, Lee is vowing to never seek a plea deal and will take his chances in court — even if it lands him in prison.
During a speech he delivered in front of fellow Trump-backing evangelicals who held a fundraiser in his honor last week, Lee dismissed any notion that he would follow the path of other one-time Trump allies.
"I’m not going to plead out to a lie,” Lee said. “I’m not going to cooperate with evil. I’m not going to do something that is going to eat away or destroy our First Amendment rights... This is the Lord’s battle, and we’ve got to fight it.”
Lee has been accused, along with pro-Trump activist Harrison Floyd and publicist Trevian Kutti, of trying to pressure Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman into claiming that she helped steal the 2020 election from Trump, which prosecutors say was designed to give Republicans a justification for blocking the certification of President Joe Biden's win.
