Georgia v. Trump

Yesterday, August 14, 2023, "The Three Faces" according to the Universal Solar Calendar, the great and sovereign state of Georgia indicted former "president" Donald J. Trump, Agent Orange himself, and 18 others for multiple crimes committed while trying to steal the 2020 presidential election. A special-purpose grand jury made up of my fellow Fulton County citizens examined evidence and heard from 75 witnesses in the case and issued a Final Report in January. A regular grand jury considered the Final Report of the special grand jury and brought the indictments as recommended.  The defendants have until noon on August 25 to surrender to authorities.

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in the Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost,” the indictment reads, "and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.” 

The indictment alleges that those involved in the “criminal enterprise” 

“constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.” 

While claiming to investigate voter fraud, they allegedly committed election fraud. 

That effort has run them afoul of a number of laws, including the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is broader than federal anti-racketeering laws and carries a mandatory five-year prison term. There is no probation for Georgia RICO convictions.

I voted in Georgia back in 2020 and not for Trump, but then he and his co-conspirators tried to get Georgia to agree to manufacture fake votes to overturn the vote that I cast. When that failed, they next tried to convince Georgia legislators to just ignore the will of the people and send fake Electors to Washington to misrepresent my vote. I took that personally. Try to deny me my civil rights and try to discount my vote and I will do everything legally in my power to fuck you up, make sure you never take the oath of office again, and serve time and hopefully die in a jail cell somewhere, lonely and unloved. 

Trump allies who operated out of the White House include lawyers Rudy Giuliani (who recently conceded in a lawsuit that he lied about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss having stuffed ballot boxes), John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. 

Those operating in Georgia to push the scheme to manufacture a false slate of Trump electors to challenge the real Electors include lawyer Ray Stallings Smith III, who tried to sell the idea to legislators; Philadelphia political operative Michael Roman; former Georgia Republican chair David James Shafer, who led the fake elector meeting; and Shawn Micah Tresher Still, currently a state senator, who was the secretary of the fake elector meeting. 

Those trying to intimidate election worker and witness Ruby Freeman include Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a police chaplain from Illinois, Harrison William Prescott Floyd, executive director of Black Voices for Trump, and Trevian C. Kutti, a publicist for Kanye West. 

Those who allegedly stole data from the voting systems in Coffee County down in South Georgia and spread it across the country in an attempt to somehow prove fraud include Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, former Coffee County Republican Committee chair Cathleen Alston Latham, businessman Scott Graham Hall, and Coffee County election director Misty Hampton (also known as Emily Misty Hayes).  

Predictably, Trump has called the case against him "partisan" and launched a series of attacks against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. In response, Willis told a reporter, “I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. That's how decisions are made in every case. To date, this office has indicted, since I’ve been sitting as the district attorney, over 12,000 cases. This is the eleventh RICO indictment. We follow the same process. We look at the facts. We look at the law. And we bring charges."

Georgia was instrumental in assuring that Joe Biden got the Electoral votes needed to win the Presidency.  Georgia assured Democratic control of the Senate by sending two fine Senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, to Washington.  Despite jackasses like Mary Tyler Greene and Andrew Clyde, Georgia has sent also progressive Congressmen like the late, great John Lewis to D.C. And now Georgia has issued no-nonsense, hang-them-all-and-let-God sort-them-out-later indictments against the entire Trump enterprise. I couldn't be prouder of my home state.

You're welcome.