Georgia Grand Jury Soon Ready to Indict Mob Boss Trump

After the Georgia grand jury is done with their work, probably in a few weeks or less, the Fulton County DA Fani Willis will make her official declarations as to indicting Donald Trump, or not.

There is little doubt there will be indictments for all the lawbreaking that the Trump administration did after the 2020 election in Georgia.  No one has so blatantly tried to illegally overturn an election as Trump did, like with his phone call to Raffensperger in 2020. That’s not where the effort ended or began, though. There were also high-pressure meetings with Trump’s “lawyers” trying to influence the Georgia legislature. And Trump and his minions were attempting to overturn the election even before Biden won. Trump knew he would lose, and lose he did. He lost in Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes, and he knew that too. One of those votes was mine, so I take great offense that this two-bit stupid crime boss thought he could throw out my vote so he could be in power another four years and keep up his grifting operation.

There are four likely pathways to prosecute Trump in Georgia, as laid out in a meticulous Brookings Institution report: interference with primaries and elections; intentional interference with performance of election duties; solicitation to commit election fraud; and conspiracy to commit election fraud.

Other reasons the Georgia indictments may happen sooner rather than later are laid out in the Washington Post.

It is quite likely the district attorney overseeing that case, Fani Willis, will file her case against Trump much sooner than federal prosecutors. And the committee’s findings make a compelling case for indictment under Georgia law.

Consider the facts set forth in the committee’s executive summary:

• Trump was repeatedly informed that his claims of fraud in Georgia were thoroughly investigated and debunked. At one point, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger offered to send Trump a link to the state’s audit. “I don’t care about a link. I don’t need it,” Trump told him. He might as well have said, “the facts be damned.”
• The committee also reiterated facts about Trump’s call with Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump pressured the election official to “find 11,780 votes” to flip the state’s results. Trump “asserted conspiracy theories about the election that Department of Justice officials had already debunked. Trump also made a thinly veiled threat to Raffensperger and his attorney about his failure to respond to Trump’s demands.”
• Despite the absence of evidence of fraud and warnings that claims of fraud were endangering election officials, Trump and his sidekick Rudy Giuliani vilified Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss in meetings with state legislators and during public rallies. Trump’s depraved conduct set the election workers up for death threats and harassment.
• The committee reports that on Dec. 28, 2020, then-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark “worked with a Department employee named Kenneth Klukowski — a political appointee who had earlier worked with [Trump lawyer] John Eastman — to produce a draft letter from the Justice Department to the State legislature of Georgia.” The letter falsely stated the administration had uncovered “significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.” That was a lie, as former Justice Department official Richard Donoghue confirmed in an email. And both Clark and Trump knew it.
• Clark’s letter, the committee explains, also “recommended that Georgia’s State legislature should call a special session to evaluate potential election fraud.” Referencing the fake electors Trump had organized, the letter abjectly misrepresented that “there were currently two competing slates of legitimate Presidential electors in Georgia.” Clark kept up his demands to send the letters “despite being told that the Department of Justice investigations had found no fraud sufficient to overturn the election outcome in Georgia or any other States.”
• The committee determined that the letter, which White House Counsel Pat Cipollone described as “a murder-suicide pact,” intended to “help persuade a State legislature to change its certified slate of Electoral College electors based on false allegations of fraud, so Vice President Pence could unilaterally and unlawfully decide to count a different slate on January 6th.” Trump offered Clark the job of acting attorney general precisely so he would send the letter, which then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen refused to do.

How do those facts fit with possible charges against Trump under Georgia law? Quite well.

Washington Post article.

It’s not just the election stealing, the lying, the grifting and monetizing the presidency that is so offensive to many Americans about his presidency. It’s also his egregious mob boss mentality. Trump has been a part of the New York City organized crime network for decades. More recently, Trump has obstructed justice numerous times while president. Trump lied about his taxes, lied about nearly everything he did as president, and has also done extensive witness tampering during his impeachments and even more so during the January 6th Committee hearings. He even offered witnesses jobs and money to stay on “his team.”

Donald the Don is very familiar with organized crime, because he himself is a part of it. (You can read a nice article on that here.) Netflix even made a movie that explores those criminal connections called “Fear City New York”. Trump worked extensively with organized crime as a builder and real estate developer during the 80s and 90s in NYC.

A bully with a little Al Capone

As Fear City points out, doing business in broad swaths of New York’s economy when Trump was a young man meant doing business with the mob. But Trump’s main industries—development, casinos, and luxury real estate—were particularly infested with organized crime. And what makes him notable is that he sometimes appeared to do more business with the mafia than was strictly necessary. According to biographer Wayne Barrett, “he went out of his way not to avoid” contacts with the mafia, “but to increase them.”

His mafia and mob connections run deep.

Here is more on the coming indictments from the AJC.

After meeting for more than seven months, sifting through mountains of evidence and hearing testimony from dozens of witnesses, the 23 members of the Fulton County special grand jury are expected to soon issue a final report detailing their findings and recommending next steps.