Donald Trump Has Been Indicted And Yes Arrested; Four Times Now And Counting. I was Right
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Trump to face a 'a sprawling racketeering indictment' in Georgia
Donald Trump can expect to be indicted in Georgia next month on racketeering charges according to two insiders with knowledge about the direction of the grand jury in Fulton County is taking, reports the Guardian.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-to-face-a-a-sprawling-ra
cketeering-indictment-in-georgia-report/ar-AA1ea5jJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=928768d3a03a4ab7b2968f8f7340630d&ei=13
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There's a real risk that we have blinded ourselves to think of the attack on democracy as basically being Donald Trump. I think that really simplifies in a way that, although kind of convenient, really misleads us on what's really happening. At the state level, all this would continue if Donald Trump were locked up tomorrow for any of the investigations he's undergoing. They would still be banning drop boxes, they would still be gerrymandering, and they would still be passing these toxic laws.
If we only make it about Trump, we are excusing and giving cover to many other people. Ron DeSantis has shown every sign of being someone who will attack the basic principles of democracy. He already has, repeatedly. In Ohio, [Secretary of State] Frank LaRose has been actually more effective in attacking democracy through a polite narrative than anything Donald Trump has done. He's gerrymandered the state. He's violated the Constitution seven times. Now he's breaking an election law to have a special election in August. When we make it only about Trump and those who act or seem like Trump, we actually blind ourselves to many other people who seem more sort of civil in their appearance but are just as fierce, if not more so, in their attack on democracy.
Accountability is everything.
The secret sauce of everything Republicans are doing is that they're never accountable for any of it. Every time they aren't held accountable, it's not a moment of relief for them, it's a moment of inspiration to go further. Trump is a perfect example. The lack of accountability just spurs him to go further. That lack of accountability is now playing out in every state and every statehouse in these controversial red states. They don't feel accountable to the people, and they don't feel accountable to the laws.
And whenever they see accountability emerging, whether it be through a referendum effort, whether it be through a Supreme Court, like they had in North Carolina and Ohio for a short time — they'll see it now in Wisconsin — whenever they see a threat of accountability against what they're doing, they immediately work to strip that threat of any power.
"There's a real risk that we think of the attack on democracy as basically being Donald Trump. I think that may be kind of convenient but really misleads ourselves on what's really happening."
Whenever we can exert power that brings accountability, we must. We can't shy away from that. I worry sometimes that Democrats are shy to be as aggressive as the other side. But if you are a prosecutor and you have a case that you can bring, like we're seeing in Atlanta, knowing that many of these states are so locked up that accountability will never come at the state level — we have to remake accountability. That goes from the FBI cracking down on bribery in Ohio — which is happening, which is good — to local prosecutors, to people going to the bar association and challenging people's law degrees, to private lawsuits, like what we saw happen to Fox News. When we see accountability, it's an "aha" moment. Jean Carroll is a great example. People have to be brave enough to seek accountability at whatever level they can when they have a chance to because the right wing is living in a world, for the most part, that has no accountability. It's critical we bring it back when we can.
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/28/saving-democracy-from-the-ground-up-d
avid-pepper-on-how-to-fight-the-and-win/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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There's a real risk that we have blinded ourselves to think of the attack on democracy as basically being Donald Trump. I think that really simplifies in a way that,
Agreed, it's a movement. Trump is just the ring master.
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Quote:The attempt to overturn the 2020 election results has been at the heart of multiple investigations of Trump over the past few years. But it was more than just Donald Trump acting alone. It was also his lawyers, his advisers, and his loyal followers attempting to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Trump in the White House for another term, despite Joe Biden winning the general election. This was expected behavior because every big or small Trumptard I know, although I don't know them all, is a crook, although all of them would be offended and most would be sincere when denying that about themselves. It is so sad when rotten people have delusions of adequacy. They find the world unfair to themselves, but it is fair. They are rotten people and deserve the worst and Democrats ought to, but won't, make sure the worst happens to Trumptards rather than wait for God and the Day of Judgment to punish the Trumptards. Waiting is too late to do any good.
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Agreed, it's a movement. Trump is just the ring master.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/what-are-fake-electors.htm
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That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming, Crying, and Throwing Up in a Mar-a-Lago Bathroom
By Bess Levin, July 21, 2023
On the same day that word came down racketeering charges are likely to come out of the Fulton County probe, Judge Aileen Cannon set a date for the classified-documents trial for well before the 2024 election.
Donald Trump received some no good, extremely bad legal news on Friday, when The Guardian reported that Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney criminally investigating his attempt to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has “developed evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month,” according to people familiar with the matter. Obviously, being charged with racketeering would be exactly as bad as it sounds—and yet somehow, that wasn’t even the worst news the ex-president received today.
Instead, it was likely the decision by Aileen Cannon—a federal judge Trump himself appointed—to set a trial date of May 20, 2024, for Trump to face off with the federal government in the classified-documents case, that had staffers and aides hiding in hallways and coat closets to avoid Trump’s ire (and whatever ketchup bottles he could get his hands on). While the spring date is several months later than prosecutors had requested, it is very much well before the postelection one Team Trump had been angling for in the hopes of putting it off until the ex-president could have won a second term and made all of his legal problems—on the federal level, that is—go away.
Of course, just because Cannon issued a ruling that Trump will undoubtedly be very unhappy about today does not mean she won’t, as many fear, blow up the case in his favor when the trial finally kicks off. (As The Washington Post notes, “In her role, Cannon can have a significant impact on the case, including by ruling on what evidence can be included and deciding on any potential motions challenging the charges.”) On the other hand, the government’s indictment against Trump is said to be extremely strong: After the charges were unveiled last month, former attorney general Bill Barr opined: “I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly. If even half of it is true, he’s toast.” As one Fox News legal analyst noted, “All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and he could have a terminal sentence. We’re talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period as a maximum.” (Trump, along with his alleged co-conspirator, has pleaded not guilty.)
Incidentally, the documents case isn’t even the first criminal trial that Trump will have to fit into his schedule next spring. His trial versus the Manhattan district attorney—who charged him in April with various crimes related to his hush money deals—is slated to begin March 25, three weeks after Super Tuesday. (Trump has also pleaded not guilty in that case.)
In related news, The Washington Post reports that Trump’s many legal issues—including the New York case, the DOJ’s documents case, and the possible Georgia case, and the DOJ’s election-interference case that he's expected to be charged in—are eating into a huge amount of campaign funds:
To illustrate how Trump’s criminal defense is swallowing his campaign, just over half of the money he raised last quarter went not to the campaign itself but to an affiliated PAC that is footing the legal bills. Of more than $35 million raised between March and June, the campaign received $17.7 million, according to the latest report to the Federal Election Commission. The rest went to the Save America PAC, which will report its latest finances on July 31 but has been spending millions on lawyers representing Trump and allies in the multiple ongoing cases, according to FEC disclosures.
“A lot of money is going to legal and people who don’t do much, and not a lot is left over to do marketing and advertising,” said one Trump adviser, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans. “A lot of the money we’re raising is
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Keep following your guy off the cliff, dummies.
That's exactly what they expect you to do.
Trump will be fine. 
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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'A brilliant move': prosecutor Jack Smith praised by legal experts for deploying game-changing statute against Trump
By Tom Boggioni
Section 241, a criminal statute that’s part of the Ku Klux Klan Act, prohibits any conspiracy designed to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
They can make out this case without proving that Donald Trump knew he had lost the election.
"As long as you can show that he was trying to do an end run around the process, you can show a violation of this statute. For example, asking [Georgia Secretary of State Brad] Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes. He may have genuinely believed that he somehow earned them, some of the stolen, etc. etc., but he knew that process wasn't the way you do it."
https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-trump-2662325667/
The Last Time the Justice Department Prosecuted Election Interference Under Section 241 By Quinta Jurecic
Friday, July 21, 2023, 2:14 PM
Just this March, the Justice Department secured a conviction under the statute for interference with the 2016 vote. Mackey was found guilty by a jury in March. He’s currently awaiting his sentencing, which has been set for October. Following the verdict, his lawyer indicated to the New York Times that he plans to appeal the conviction.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-last-time-the-justice-departm
ent-prosecuted-election-interference-under-section-241
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Praised by Leftist hacks who can't get Trump out of their brain.
Trump will be fine.
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Fulton county prosecutors ready to seek charges in Trump Georgia investigation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fulton-county-prosecutors-read
y-to-seek-charges-in-trump-georgia-investigation/ar-AA1egwtA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f9307268b3d44a70911b8eecf1f30feb&ei=55
Hurry Jack, send Trump more money.
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