Georgia prosecutors are reportedly mulling over whether or not to bring racketeering and conspiracy charges against disgraced former President Donald Trump in connection to his attempts to get the 2020 election overturned in Georgia. This comes after months of testimony heard by a special grand jury in Atlanta, which has included the jury foreperson intimateing that their findings included more than enough evidence to recommend an indictment of Trump.
The charges of racketeering and conspiracy are being talked about as the evidence clearly has pointed the district attorney’s office towards the belief that most of the pressure being put on Georgia officials came from outside of the state, and at the very least was coordinated from outside. From what has been reported, some of this evidence includes phone calls from then-President Trump to various Peach State Republicans, including the late Republican Georgia House Speaker David Ralston.
On Monday, Trump’s most recent legal outfit offered up a lot of pages of reading in the hope of muzzling the seven-month-long special grand jury report. I guess some of that fundraising money doesn’t just find its way into Trump golf courses.
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In a 483-page filing, Trump’s lawyers argue that the Fifth and 14th Amendments of the Constitution are being violated in some way. They are asking that “any evidence or testimony derived by the Special Purpose Grand Jury” be quashed. They are also asking that the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office recuse itself from any further legal action against Trump. The timing of the legal filing comes coincidentally with the news of how serious Georgia’s prosecutors are on the brink of bringing some form of justice to Trump’s abuses of power.
The summary of the 483 pages (which includes a political cartoon as a part of its evidence) is that all of the testimony, all of the evidence, all of the facts discovered during the grand jury process were “conducted under an unconstitutional statute, through an illegal and unconstitutional process, and by a disqualified District Attorney's Office who violated prosecutorial standards and acted with disregard for the ‘gravity of the circumstances and the constitutional rights of those involved.”
But just in case you believed that it was simply the district attorney’s office at fault, it was also the judge! According to the filing, “the Supervising Judge and the FCDA’s Office, failed to protect the most basic procedural and substantive constitutional rights of all individuals discussed by this investigative body.”
They also argue that the judge’s application of statutes is wrong and “had a negative ripple effect on the constitutional integrity of the entire process,” in part because it compelled outside witnesses to testify. Must be talking about Lindsey Graham and others.
Of course, racketeering and conspiracy charges are usually something that arises when outside testimony is allowed to bolster the evidence that Trump and his cabal of big election liars might be conspiring to pressure Georgia to throw away the Constitution and install him as some kind of unpopular monarch. Not surprising anyone, New York district attorneys seem to be on the precipice of indicting Trump as well—though in that case Trump was paying hush money to hide a possible extramarital affair.
As indictments begin to loom closer and Trump revs up his campaign for both president and the end of judicial integrity completely, the Republican Party leadership has begun conspiring to threaten retaliation against anyone who would charge the Donald. Trump himself is using his campaign rallying to ply his MAGA audiences with wild conspiracy theories of witch hunts, with a focus on “the radical left communists, the bureaucrats, the fake news media, the big money special interests, the corrupt Democrat prosecutors."