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I’ll admit I have been walking on the angry side of life since Stacey Abrams Fani Willis filed charges against President Donald Trump and the rest of the Georgia 19. Everything about the premature false announcement, and the late final announcement by the unprincipled Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, made me weep for the Banana Republic we have become. I remember back in the olden days when we were a Constitutional Republic. I read the New York Post editorial by Legal Eagle Andrew McCarthy, “Out of all indictments, Georgia is the most perilous threat to Trump”, and my anger amped to 13. How dare he? Is McCarthy saying that Trump could go to prison over these bullshit charges?
The short answer is maybe. We live in an “Atlas Shrugged” pseudo-dystopian bureaucratic state. I decided to open my mind, read McCarthy’s op-ed, and get used to the idea of a Prison President:
In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis unveiled an ambitious indictment of the former president and 18 of his 2020 campaign advisers and operatives.
The charges relate to Trump’s efforts to undo the Peach State’s popular election, which was narrowly won by former Vice President Joe Biden.
Like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Willis is an elected Democrat.
In Atlanta as in the Big Apple, employing the criminal justice system against the Democrats’ archnemesis makes for good progressive politics, even if it may be dodgy law.
Well, I would argue with McCarthy that Trump wanted to undo the popular election. He wanted an audit to ensure the vote was true. The other thing at work is a Black woman sticking her stiletto through an old, White man’s neck which is the ultimate win. Fani Willis will be a hero of the “Democracy” if she can send Donald Trump to prison, right? It was a win for The Left last night with Rachel Madcow and Hildebeast Clinton maniacally cackling. But, they all want more.
More from McCarthy:
Willis, by contrast, is probing serious misconduct — the duplicitous and heavy-handed schemes by which Trump tried to remain in power despite losing the election.
She can plausibly maintain that she is investigating Trump based on what he did, not who he is.
The question is whether what he did amounts to criminal offenses.
In this, she is running into the same complications that Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith faces in the election-interference charges he has brought against Trump in Washington, DC, federal court.
In fact, there is significant overlap in that case and Willis’ — the federal case includes the Georgia shenanigans but is broader because Trump’s schemes went beyond Georgia, seeking to reverse election results in additional battleground states won by Biden.Smith’s problem is that the federal penal statutes he has invoked — relating to fraud, obstruction and civil rights — do not clearly and narrowly target the kind of conduct in which Trump engaged.
The special counsel will have to stretch the law and get favorable court rulings to make the charges stick. I am not convinced that he can (or at least that he should) prevail, but it’s a serious case.
By contrast, Willis could have smoother sailing.
So, Willis brought broader charges but in a State court which has more power than the Federal courts in such cases and gives the State more power in this case. Trump cannot pardon himself and Kemp cannot pardon him either.
ndeed, that is why Smith is pushing so hard to get the federal courts in Washington and Florida to accelerate the schedule and get the cases to trial in the next few months — before Election Day 2024.
Presidents, however, have no authority to pardon state crimes.
It remains to be seen whether Wills can convince a jury of Atlantans to convict Trump. But even a newly elected President Trump could not make the Georgia prosecution go away.
If he were convicted, it would stick.
And we would have our first Prison President.
The Prosecutor, Mrs. Willis wants to try the Georgia 19 (Trump, his lawyers and associates) at the same time in the next six months which is sooo fascist dictatorship. In case you haven’t seen the paperwork, here are the Georgia 19. There is no courtroom outside of Hollywood that can hold all the lawyers for 19 defendants, prosecutors, court reporters, the judge, the jury and the public. I could be down with seeing Fani Willis renting out the Sandy Springs Middle School Gymnasium for the trial which would give it the perfect juvenile atmosphere.
The juvenile, third world, mobocracy that the Left dreams of. They want to cow all of us. No speaking up. Be obedient little serfs.
POLL Do you think the Georgia grand jury indictments against President Donald Trump is ELECTION INTERFERENCE from Joe Biden and the Democrats?
Have we ever seen a sitting president use the federal government to to jail his top political opponent? Not to mention in the middle… pic.twitter.com/loyHCOiYxI
— The Trump Train (@The_Trump_Train) August 15, 2023
Stay in your place. Do not question anything. Understand. If we are lucky though, we may have a Prison President. That would be an epic avatar for today.
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Cameron says: Oh dear. The WALLS ARE CLOSING IN!™ part 234.
A reader says: First of all, we are a constitutional representative democracy, which is another way of saying constitutional republic, because our government has aspects of both a democracy and a republic. But of course you can’t bring yourself to use the “d-word.” Spare me. Because we are a form of a democracy, everyone is supposed to be equal under the law, including former presidents. This was done by the founders because they had seen what true autocracies looked like in history. So in essence, no one is above the law. What you want is a banana republic where a leader can do whatever he or she wants and never be held accountable as long as they are from your chosen party. That’s not American.
As you’re whining about the charges, bear in mind that no one, including you, has seen the evidence. According to a lawyer who has tried RICO cases, in order to bring RICO charges, you need at least two pieces of evidence for every single element of every count of every single crime charged in a RICO indictment. For information about the Georgia RICO law, go here: https://www.ajc.com/politics/what-to-know-about-georgias-rico-law/3Y2PBKLHWFDMLKYFEURTHLBVZY/ I suspect what the lawyer I mentioned was referring to would be called “predicate acts” for each count.
Anyways, Fani Willis has the goods if she has that much evidence for each alleged crime. And it’s obvious by the indictment that several people have flipped. You’re also ignoring that there is literal evidence, as presented in the indictment, that some defendants went to a town in Georgia and copied the election data from that town. That is shocking and a crime. THAT is a perfect example of tampering with election data.
We’re not going to have a president in prison. I’d venture the guess the GOP will ditch him before them. So entertaining that is a pipe dream of someone who refuses to let the idea of a second Trump term die. It’s over. He is very likely going to jail and you support a wanna-be mob boss.
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