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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 1:51:50 GMT
Peter Baker from the New York Times said something about a list of words they're not supposed to use - unprecedented was on it.
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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 15, 2023 2:03:04 GMT
That must have been what I heard. Thank you. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 2:08:59 GMT
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-election
A new statement from the Trump campaign accuses Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, of being a “rabid partisan” and says her election interference investigation is based on “fabricated accusations.” The campaign tied the investigation to the Biden administration, despite the fact that it came from a state prosecutor.
The district attorney’s office is not required to give advance notice to defendants before an indictment is made public, and there is no indication that they have informed any defense lawyers in the Trump case.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 2:09:18 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 15, 2023 3:00:27 GMT
Rachel Maddow just now…
“I can tell you now, officially, that former President Donald J. Trump has been criminally indicted in the state of Georgia in a prosectution brought by the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis."
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 15, 2023 3:01:24 GMT
From Acyn…
Cnn reporting Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis are part of the indictment
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 15, 2023 3:05:01 GMT
From Tamara Hallerman….
“There are 13 felony charges against Trump, including RICO, conspiracy to commit forgery, filing false documents, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer and more”
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:06:13 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:07:46 GMT
Finally! www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionThe 41 counts named in the indictment—from racketeering charges, to conspiracy to commit forgery, to perjury—are by far the most sweeping set of accusation Trump has faced in any of his other three indictments to date.
This set of charges accuses Trump of leading a criminal enterprise to stay in office. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:08:46 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:09:59 GMT
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionThe same can be said of the 19 defendants named in the indictment. From lawyers like Rudy Giuliani, to White House aides like Mark Meadows, to so-called fake electors like David Shafer, the list of defendants is the most sprawling of any of the indictments Trump has faced.
Rudy Giuliani, who rose to power as a tough-on-crime prosecutor and was dubbed “America’s Mayor” after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was indicted on an array of charges, including racketeering and making false statements.
Robert J. Costello, Giuliani’s lawyer in the federal investigation into election interference, declined to comment on Tuesday night, explaining that he would not be representing Giuliani in the Georgia case.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:10:24 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:12:17 GMT
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionIt’s striking that Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, was charged here. There are references to Meadows in the federal indictment but he was not among the co-conspirators. That’s different than Rudy Giuliani, who is co-conspirator 1 in that indictment, and is charged here.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:15:16 GMT
What we know about the other defendants that were indicted www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionJohn EastmanKeeneth CheseboroMark MeadowsRudy Giuliani
Ray S. Smith II - GA Attorney
Robert Cheeley - Senior campaign advisor
Michael Roman - Trump’s director of Election Day operations
Harrison Floyd - ran a group called Black Voices for Trump
David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party
Shawn Still- GOP finance chairman
Harassment of the election workers
Stephen Cliffgard Lee,
Harrison Floyd and
Trevian Kutti - a former publicist for R. Kelly and associate of Kanye West, celebrity stylist from Chicago
Attempted to steal election data
former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton,
former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham and
Georgia businessman Scott Hall.
Two staff members of the 2020 Trump campaign were among those indicted in the sprawling racketeering case brought by Fulton County, Ga., prosecutors: Michael Roman, a top official who served as Trump’s director of Election Day operations, and Harrison Floyd, who ran a group called Black Voices for Trump.Kenneth Chesebro and John Eastman were among the lawyers indicted by Fulton County, Ga., today. The two men were key architects of the plan to use fake Trump electors in Georgia and other states that were won by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., in a bid to circumvent the voters in those states.The Fulton County racketeering case includes an indictment not just of Trump himself but of staff members from his White House, his 2020 presidential campaign and his administration’s Justice Department.On top of the 19 named defendants, the charging documents cites additional unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators.The same can be said of the 19 defendants named in the indictment. From lawyers like Rudy Giuliani, to White House aides like Mark Meadows, to so-called fake electors like David Shafer, the list of defendants is the most sprawling of any of the indictments Trump has faced.Although Giuliani is no stranger to law enforcement scrutiny — the F.B.I. searched his apartment two years ago as part of an unrelated investigation and he was an unnamed co-conspirator in the recent federal indictment of Trump — he had always danced around criminal liability, until now.Rudy Giuliani, who rose to power as a tough-on-crime prosecutor and was dubbed “America’s Mayor” after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was indicted on an array of charges, including racketeering and making false statements.It’s striking that Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, was charged here. There are references to Meadows in the federal indictment but he was not among the co-conspirators. That’s different than Rudy Giuliani, who is Co-conspirator 1 in that indictment, and is charged here.
Little-known lawyers who testified at a subcommittee hearing in the Georgia Senate are among those charged in Fulton County. Ray Stallings Smith III and Robert David Cheeley stand accused of false statements and writings for allegedly airing erroneous claims of voter fraud to the legislative panel in December 2020.
Lesser-known defendants named in the sprawling indictment flesh out the picture of the multi-faceted and at times bizarre efforts that pro-Trump forces undertook in Georgia. Among them are three people alleged to be involved in an effort to to pressure a rank-and-file election worker in Fulton County to falsely admit that she committed fraud on Election Day in 2020. Central to that effort, prosecutors say, was Trevian Kutti, a celebrity stylist from Chicago and Trump supporter who persuaded the worker, Ruby Freeman, to meet with her in early January 2021.www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/trump-indictment-georgia-election-2020/Mark Meadows, among those indicted in Fulton County, is accused of furthering the alleged conspiracy by attempting to observe an audit process even though it was closed to the public and arranging a phone call between Trump and a chief investigator in the Georgia secretary of state’s office in which the then-president pressed her to act on his unsubstantiated claims of fraud, among other allegations.Also indicted were two Georgia-based lawyers advocating on Trump’s behalf, Ray S. Smith II, and Robert Cheeley; a senior campaign adviser, Mike Roman, who helped plan the elector meeting; and two prominent Georgia Republicans who served as electors: former GOP chairman David Shafer and former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still
Several lesser known players who participated in efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in Georgia were also indicted, including three people accused of harassing Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman. They are Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd and Trevian Kutti. The latter is a former publicist for R. Kelly and associate of Kanye West.
A final group of individuals charged in the indictment allegedly participated in an effort to steal election-equipment data in rural Coffee County, Ga. They are former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton, former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham and Georgia businessman Scott Hall.
Numerous “fake” electors in Georgia face wide-ranging charges related to their efforts to pose as legitimate electors chosen by the state’s voters, including impersonating a public officer, forgery in the first degree, making false statements and writings, filing false documents, and forgery in the first degree. Among those charged is David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:15:51 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:21:45 GMT
What we know about the charges www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionFormer President Donald J. Trump has been charged with 13 counts in Fulton County, Ga. Those charges include violation of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, as well as conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree.
The 41 counts named in the indictment — from racketeering charges, to conspiracy to commit forgery, to perjury — are by far the most sweeping set of accusation Trump has faced in any of his other three indictments to date.
Highlighting the sprawling nature of this racketeering case, the district attorney is citing conduct in Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania as overt acts in furtherance of a conspiracy.
The indictment laid out eight ways the “enterprise” obstructed the election: by lying to the Georgia state legislature, by lying to state officials, by creating fake pro-Trump electors, by harassing election workers, by soliciting Justice Department officials, by soliciting Vice President Mike Pence, by breaching voting machines and by engaging in a cover up.
Prosecutors begin to lay out their narrative of the racketeering charge 14 pages in to the indictment, laying out their case in the plainest of language: “Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:23:09 GMT
More about racketeering www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionAt the heart of the indictment against Mr. Trump and his allies in Georgia are racketeering charges under the state Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. Like the federal law on which it is based, the state RICO law was originally designed to dismantle organized crime groups, but over the years it has come to be used to prosecute other crimes, from white collar Ponzi and embezzlement schemes to public corruption cases.
It’s a powerful law enforcement tool. The Georgia RICO statute allows prosecutors to bundle together what may seem to be unrelated crimes committed by a host of different people if those crimes are perceived to be in support of a common objective.
“It allows a prosecutor to go after the head of an organization, loosely defined, without having to prove that that head directly engaged in a conspiracy or any acts that violated state law,” Michael Mears, a law professor at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. “If you are a prosecutor, it’s a gold mine. If you are a defense attorney, it’s a nightmare.”
Prosecutors need only show “a pattern of racketeering activity,” which means crimes that all were used to further the objectives of a corrupt enterprise. And the bar is fairly low. The Georgia courts have concluded that a pattern consists of at least two acts of racketeering activity within a four-year period in furtherance of one or more schemes that have the same or similar intent.
That means the act might allow prosecutors to knit together the myriad efforts by Donald J. Trump and his allies, like Rudolph W. Giuliani, to overturn his narrow loss in Georgia in the 2020 presidential race. Those efforts include the former president’s now infamous phone call in which he pressed Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” him enough votes to win.
At its heart, the statute requires prosecutors to prove the existence of an “enterprise” and a “pattern of racketeering activity.” The enterprise does not have to be a purely criminal organization. In Georgia, the law has been used to hold defendants accountable for a host of different schemes, including attempts by candidates to seek or maintain elected office and efforts by school officials to orchestrate cheating on standardized tests.
The sorts of crimes prosecutors could try to pin on Mr. Trump and his allies include solicitation to commit election fraud, intentional interference with performance of election duties, making false statements, criminal solicitation, improperly influencing government officials and even forgery.
The law lays out a list of 40 state crimes or acts that can qualify together as “pattern of racketeering activity.” It is broader than the federal law in that the attempt, solicitation, coercion, and intimidation of another person to commit one of the offenses can be considered racketeering activity. A number of the crimes Mr. Trump and his allies are accused of are on the list, including making false statements.
Mr. Mears said the law doesn’t require the state to prove that Mr. Trump knew about or ordered all the crimes, just that he was the head of an enterprise that carried them out. The main defense for Mr. Trump’s lawyers would likely be to show that the various actors did not intend to commit a crime.
The Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, has extensive experience with bringing racketeering cases, including some outside the usual crime family realm. She won the case involving public-school educators accused of altering students’ standardized tests. Her office is also currently pursuing racketeering charges against two gangs connected to the hip-hop world, including one led by the Atlanta rapper Jeffery Williams, who performs as Young Thug.
“RICO is a tool that allows a prosecutor’s office or law enforcement to tell the whole story,” Ms. Willis said at a news conference in August to announce a racketeering case against the Drug Rich gang.
A person convicted of racketeering under the Georgia law faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine, in addition to the penalty for the underlying crime. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:27:31 GMT
More about the election workers www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/trump-georgia-election-investigation/#link-YDMYNF4M7ZCFTGIJCK5HCULP4AThe pressure campaign faced by Ruby Freeman, the Georgia election worker who testified publicly at congressional hearings last year, is recounted in the indictment, which alleges that a pastor named Stephen Cliffgard Lee, among others, attempted to influence her testimony in Fulton County, including by traveling to her home and speaking to her neighbor. The indictment describes this as “racketeering activity."www.npr.org/live-updates/trump-news-indictment-georgia-electionRuby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss: Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, both worked as election workers in Fulton County. In the time after the 2020 election, Trump allies, notably his attorney Rudy Giuliani, shared edited video that purported to show Freeman and Moss processing fake ballots for Joe Biden. The videos were quickly debunked by election officials, but conspiracy theories about the pair flourished, leading to a wave of harassment and racist threats.“A lot of threats wishing death upon me, telling me that, you know, I'm — I'll be in jail with my mother, and saying things like 'be glad it's 2020 and not 1920,' ” Moss told the congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol last summer.Giuliani is charged with making false statements to the government, for sharing conspiracies about Moss among other election falsehoods at a Georgia House of Representatives committee meeting in December 2020.
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 15, 2023 3:33:11 GMT
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Mary L Trump.,,
“ In fairness, he's been the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s--this one just includes people who aren't actually members of his family.”
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:38:08 GMT
Specific charges against Trump www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionFormer president Donald Trump faces 13 counts, according to the indictment. These include violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiring to file false documents.
Prosecutors begin to lay out their narrative of the racketeering charge 14 pages into the indictment, laying out their case in the plainest of language: “Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.”
That Trump tried to stay in office is an undeniable fact. His advisers have been saying since the special counsel investigation into whether his campaign conspired with Russian officials in 2016 that it’s not a crime to lie to reporters. The question here is whether the lies around the election constitute criminality, and Willis has laid out an extensive case.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:38:41 GMT
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionThe indictment spells out 161 separate acts that prosecutors say were taken to further the alleged criminal conspiracy, including events like Rudy Giuliani’s false testimony about election fraud to Georgia lawmakers in early December and President Donald Trump’s telephone call 2020 to the Georgia secretary of state in early January to urge him to “find” 12,000 votes.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:41:30 GMT
Excuses and attacks by Republicans www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionwww.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/trump-georgia-election-investigation/#link-YDMYNF4M7ZCFTGIJCK5HCULP4ATrump's lawyers denounced the indictment in a statement, calling the day's events “shocking and absurd.” The lawyers, Drew Findling, Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg, added, “We look forward to a detailed review of this indictment, which is undoubtedly just as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process has been.”
A statement from the Trump campaign accused Ms. Willis of being a “rabid partisan” and said her election interference investigation was based on “fabricated accusations.” The campaign tied the investigation to the Biden administration, despite the fact that it came from a state prosecutor.
A spokeswoman for Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who was among those indicted, accused the Fulton County district attorney of “exceeding her powers by inserting herself into the operations of the federal government to go after Jeff.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), an ardent defender of Donald Trump, called Monday’s indictment a “desperate sham” and baselessly accused President Biden of weaponizing the government against the former president — a defense many Trump allies often tap into.
“Justice should be blind, but Biden has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election,” McCarthy said, alluding to Trump’s status as the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.
McCarthy, in a statement posted on Twitter, now known as X, called Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) a “radical DA” who is “following Biden’s lead by attacking President Trump and using it to fundraise her political career.”
“Americans see through this desperate sham,” McCarthy added.
Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican, also criticized Willis and the indictment, and said Trump had “every legal right to challenge” the results of the election.
Rachel Cauley, a spokeswoman for the Center for Renewing America, where Jeffrey Clark is director of litigation and senior fellow, issued the following statement in response to Monday’s indictment:
“Jeff Clark is a brilliant legal mind who has litigated cases of national significance in and out of government for decades. Willis is exceeding her powers by inserting herself into the operations of the federal government to go after Jeff. She even jumped the gun and illegally presumed an indictment before it was issued. It’s clear Willis aspires to higher office and is using this witch hunt to climb the political ladder. Jeff Clark was simply doing his job in 2020 and he doesn’t deserve to be subjected to this naked political lawfare, especially not by a publicity hound like Willis.”
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 3:44:46 GMT
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Post by lizacreates on Aug 15, 2023 4:41:19 GMT
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionThe indictment spells out 161 separate acts that prosecutors say were taken to further the alleged criminal conspiracy, including events like Rudy Giuliani’s false testimony about election fraud to Georgia lawmakers in early December and President Donald Trump’s telephone call 2020 to the Georgia secretary of state in early January to urge him to “find” 12,000 votes. Holy shit. Girlfriend’s fierce. She even included other states. No doubt some of those unindicted co-conspirators were the fake electors. Maybe she’ll charge them later? There are dozens of emails referenced here. These people must have believed they weren’t going to get caught because they otherwise wouldn't have used emails, no? Trump’s tweets are finally coming back to haunt him. Lol. Serves him right. I thought I was well-informed on what happened in Georgia, but apparently not. There are about twenty incidents here I wasn’t aware of and I’m only on page 53. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 4:41:48 GMT
Mark Meadows www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-electionIt’s striking that Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, was charged here. There are references to Meadows in the federal indictment but he was not among the co-conspirators. That’s different than Rudy Giuliani, who is co-conspirator 1 in that indictment, and is charged here.Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff and a former Republican representative from North Carolina, was one of 18 people charged alongside former President Donald J. Trump on Monday night with conspiracy and other counts related to efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power after the 2020 election.
In 2021, congressional hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol revealed that Mr. Meadows had repeatedly pushed the Justice Department to conduct investigations based on Mr. Trump’s unfounded conspiracy theories about the election.
In several emails sent at the end of 2020, Mr. Meadows asked Jeffrey A. Rosen, then the acting attorney general, to look into debunked claims of election fraud in New Mexico, as well as an array of baseless theories that Mr. Trump had been the actual winner of the election.
He was also deeply involved in Mr. Trump’s efforts in Georgia, prosecutors have said.
According to filings from the office of the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, Mr. Meadows acknowledged that he had attended a meeting at the White House on Dec. 21, 2020, with Mr. Trump, members of Congress and others to discuss allegations of voter fraud in the state.
The next day, Mr. Meadows made a surprise visit to Cobb County, Ga., in an attempt to observe an election audit that was in progress. He was told by local officials that he was not authorized to be in the room.
Mr. Meadows also spoke with Frances Watson, the chief investigator for Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, who was conducting an inquiry into ballot signatures in Cobb County. A day later, Mr. Trump phoned Ms. Watson himself, and told her that “when the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.”
Prosecutors have said that a special grand jury that investigated the matter had evidence showing that Mr. Meadows had set up another notable call: the recorded conversation on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Mr. Trump can be heard telling Mr. Raffensperger that he wanted to “find 11,780 votes” that would allow him to win in Georgia.
In a material witness certificate seeking Mr. Meadows’s testimony, Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of the Fulton County Superior Court noted that Mr. Meadows also “actively participated in and spoke” during the call.
Mr. Meadows, who is a South Carolina resident, was ordered to testify last year before the special grand jury in Georgia by the South Carolina Supreme Court after trying to fight off subpoenas ordering him to testify.
The South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling, writing in a three paragraph opinion that Mr. Meadow’s arguments were “manifestly without merit.”
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 4:47:00 GMT
Just focus on 2024. The use of sir probably indicates that Trump made up the story. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/trump-georgia-election-investigation/#link-KIPYPCJ6GFBEJCP6AFXPLDDKCQThe indictment cites a Nov. 30, 2020, meeting of Arizona state and federal lawmakers as “overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.” During that meeting at a downtown Phoenix hotel, Rudy Giuliani allegedly made false statements about election fraud and requested those present to “unlawfully appoint” presidential electors from Arizona, according to the indictment. Trump called into the meeting and also made false statements, the indictment said.
That hours-long meeting was streamed online and was key in the efforts by Trump and his allies to try to build support for undoing the former president’s loss in the state, though they ultimately failed.
During that call, Trump told those gathered: “Everyone’s saying, ‘Oh, just focus on 2024, sir. Focus on 2024.’
“I said, ‘No. I have to focus on two weeks ago because this was the greatest scam ever perpetrated upon our country.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 4:49:32 GMT
Sometimes Trump is his own worst enemy - his tweets were used against him in the indictment. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/trump-georgia-election-investigation/#link-KIPYPCJ6GFBEJCP6AFXPLDDKCQTrump tweets used against him in Georgia indictment
By Josh Dawsey
Former President Donald Trump’s posts on Twitter were used at least a dozen times in the Georgia indictment as acts that “furthered the conspiracy.”
The indictment alleges that his tweets — at least a dozen between the November 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021 — were part of a broader effort to force state officials, and even his vice president, to take corrupt actions to help him overturn the results of the election.
Some of the tweets are more incendiary than others. The indictment cites a series of false statements Trump made about the election and his calls on officials to help him overturn the results.
“What a fool Governor @briankempga of Georgia is. Could have been so easy, but now we have to do it the hard way. Demand this clown call z Special Session and open up signature verification, NOW. Otherwise, could be a bad day for two GREAT Senators on January 5th,” reads one tweet that the indictment calls an “overt act to further the conspiracy.”
The indictment also cites tweets where Trump attacked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, former vice president Mike Pence and others when they were not going along with his claims.
“I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters’, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!” Trump wrote.
Some of the tweets were less aggressive,
The indictment pointed to a Dec. 3, 2020, tweet where Trump wrote “Georgia hearings now on @oann. Amazing!,” which also was described as “an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
Trump is no longer on Twitter; he was suspended from the platform after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, though his account was reactivated after Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform. Trump now posts on the social media platform Truth Social. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 15, 2023 4:58:28 GMT
Joint statement by Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Nice to see them on the same page, unlike the Republicans. McConnell has not made a statement yet but McCarthy did and made accusations of weaponized government as well as attacking the DA. www.npr.org/live-updates/trump-news-indictment-georgia-electionSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a joint statement calling on the former president to "allow the legal process to proceed without outside interference.”
“The actions taken by the Fulton County District Attorney, along with other state and federal prosecutors, reaffirms the shared belief that in America no one, not even the president, is above the law," they said in a statement. |
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