or ‘an attack on our Republic’?
You read it first here, Platinum Subscribers: the Book of Ecclesiastes was wrong about nothing being new under the sun. The Bible never met Donald Trump or an election like 2024! In four separate cases #45 faces 91 counts! We doubt he’s done yet!
Herewith is a potpourri of commentary on the 41 State of Georgia criminal indictments issued late Monday 08-14-23 against Trump and 18 other defendants, many of whom are certain to rat each other out in a state court immune to presidential pardons.
Another grand jury, another indictment. … At this point, Mr. Trump is about to become a professional defendant.
— Peter Baker, New York Times
District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. … As with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, many view Willis as a Democratic prosecutor pursuing the highly unpopular former president. However, given the three grand juries and the three years that have passed, Willis may have found new evidence or witnesses that could tie Trump to criminal conduct.
— law professor Jonathan Turley
“Over a year ago, I said that Donald Trump’s actions disqualified him from ever serving as President again. Those words are more true today than ever before.”
— former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson
We usually hear about racketeering in the federal context, where the RICO statute is used to prosecute organized crime groups. But the basic idea behind anti-racketeering is to group a set of disparate criminal schemes under one conspiratorial arrangement.
Thus Willis depicts Trump and his campaign as the overarching racketeering enterprise, and alleges that this group engaged in a variety of schemes all aimed at corruptly reversing the election outcome — from Trump’s efforts to pressure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to invalidate ballots cast for Biden, to the so-called “fake electors” plot to substitute a slate of Trump electors for the slate of electors who cast the state’s electoral votes for Biden, consistent with the popular election result.
It sounds like ambitious charging, but it may not be all that much of a reach.
— former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy in the New York Post
The indictment of President Trump and 18 staff persons is confirmation that the insane treasonous Democrats are determined to put an end to our republic. Unfortunately and sadly the Republican Party leadership has failed to defend Trump and by extension defend our republic. We are living in perilous times and will lose our republic if this diabolical attempt to size absolute control is not stopped. As citizens we are limited in how to respond to this Democrat bloodsport. We still have our freedom and voices to express our opposition to what the Democrats are doing to America.
Please understand, this is not just an attack on President Trump, this is an attack on our Republic. God help US!”
— a WI Facebook ‘friend’ named Bill Elmhorst
President Biden and former President Donald Trump are now in a legal death match, where, for either one to stay out of prison, his opponent will probably go to prison. … Mr. Trump has to be elected for him to be certain that the Biden Justice Department will not continue to pursue him until they have a conviction on some felony with jail time.
— Richard Rahn, Washington Times
A rational Republican party would look at former President Donald Trump’s fourth criminal indictment in five months — now up to a grand total of 91 felony charges — and pause to reevaluate its options in the 2024 presidential election. … Trump doesn’t just have the bad habit of breaking the law; he does so in the most public, verifiable and obvious way possible. …
A majority of Americans don’t like Trump, they see January 6 as a national embarrassment, scandal, and disgrace, and they are unlikely to be persuaded that Trump is an innocent victim …
It is exceptionally unlikely that sometime between now and November 2024, many Americans change their minds about Trump and conclude he’s the most unjustly persecuted American man since Richard Kimble.
— Jim Geraghty, National Review
He did nothing wrong!
— Jim Jordan
The alleged “criminal enterprise” operated in Fulton County, Ga., but also in other areas, including Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., according to the indictment.
— Brittany Bernstein, National Review
As someone who’s running for President against Trump, I’d volunteer to write the amicus brief to the court myself: prosecutors should not be deciding U.S. presidential elections, and if they’re so overzealous that they commit constitutional violations, then the cases should be thrown out & they should be held accountable.”
— Vivek Ramaswamy
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Round up the usual suspects! Getting to the point that the only court in which #45 has not been indicted is Judge Judy’s. So far.
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“Is this the end of RICO?”
¿RICO?
Rico Suave!
The Gotch
The more indictments under his belt, the higher his poll numbers. No wonder Trump is a professional defendant. He will be the Republican presidential nominee.