The night the constitutional lights went out in Georgia: Fani Willis' shameful RICO overreach.
There was no underlying crime committed by Team Trump in Georgia. This case is about the criminalizing of political speech and denial of free speech for political gain by a partisan district attorney,
When you contemplate the two most egregious cases against defendant Donald John Trump, those in New York and Georgia, a few things come to mind:
1. Both cases are local and, therefore, not subject to federal pardon. Which, of course, according to sick Democratic logic, is why they were brought.
2. The two Democratic TDS-infected prosecutors bringing these local cases are elected by voters. Their motives are inherently political. In Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case, he campaigned on "Getting Trump." He promised voters he’d indict an innocent private citizen before he had ANY EVIDENCE OF A CRIME! The same partisan animus animated Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis.
3. It is doubtful that a governor in either New York or Georgia could pardon Trump, whether he or she wanted to or not. Nor is it likely that Trump could be pardoned by a commission, especially in Democrat-dominated New York.
4. We've been over why the New York Stormy Daniels payoff case is a joke. As Bragg himself initially surmised, the case should never have been brought. Almost all Republican, independent, and non-TDS-infected Democratic voters and pundits agree.
5. The Georgia case is equally insane but for reasons few understand. Fani Willis has ostensibly indicted Trump and his whopping 18 co-conspirators for violating Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) statutes. The defendants are accused of forming an enterprise with the purpose of committing a crime. But, as in Jack Smith's unfairly duplicative DC case, there is no evidence of a crime being committed by the accused parties in Fulton County, let alone the solicitation of others to commit a crime. It is not criminal to dispute an election! It is not criminal to propose an alternate slate of electors when one believes an election was stolen. It is not criminal to publicly say on Twitter that an election was corrupt or stolen, let alone follow legal advice in seeking redress, form a coalition of like-minded persons who feel the same, or talk to state election officials about your complaint, let alone about the number of fraudulent votes in question.
Nor is it criminal for a team's lawyers to inspect voting machines or talk to election workers who might themselves know of election fraud or might be part of a scheme to deny Trump his rightful votes. This is especially salient in this case since Trump had direct experience of Democrats trying to defraud him of his 2016 election and the right to operate freely while in office through various corrupt schemes, from the Steele Dossier lies to the Russia Collusion Hoax to FISAgate to, as was confirmed after he left office, the DOJ’s paid censorship on social media of his speech and other speech implicating his opponent Joe Biden in influence-peddling.
There is no Georgia law prohibiting the dispute of election results. If there was, Georgia gubernatorial election denialist Stacey Abrams would be in prison. So, when Willis tries to argue that Trump broke the law by falsely tweeting on the election or talking to others about protesting the results, there is NO LAW that he could break, unless it’s the same laws that Democrats broke in defrauding Trump.
There is also no Georgia law against lying about an election in public or to a legislative committee. Democrats lie every day in legislative committees, LOL! They publicly lied about not losing to Trump in 2016 or to Bush in 2000.
It is true that first amendment rights go out the window when one is using them in the furtherance of a crime. But to win that argument, a prosecutor has to first show that there was a crime for which the syndicate came together. It is not a crime to believe you won an election. That is why the laughably ragtag, hardly organized, makeshift Trump team came together: to dispute the 2020 election. Same reason that the "syndicate" of Al Gore, his various lawyers, members of the DNC, and more came together to vigorously dispute the 2000 election. Why is Team Trump guilty but not Team Tilden, Team Humphrey, Team Gore, Team Kerry, Team Hillary Clinton, Team Abrams?!
It's not as if Team Trump is akin to the Biden family syndicate, whose purpose was to engorge themselves with tens of millions of dollars by taking foreign bribes and delivering high-level political favors in return. That is inherently criminal. Nor is it similar to Willis' claim-to-fame RICO case––which I covered in depth for Forbes––of Atlanta urban teachers and principals coming together as a syndicate in a de facto boiler room to criminally alter test scores to make themselves look better and, thus, receive more federal education funds.
There is no underlying crime committed by the 19 Team Trump defendants in Georgia, let alone by the fewer number in New York. These cases are, at their heart, about the criminalization of legal defense, the criminalization of speech, and the denial of free speech for political gain on the eve of a presidential election in which the primary defendant is leading in polls.
How do you know this is all so grotesquely partisan? Because Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg campaigned on their respective Trump cases, raised money off those cases, and tweeted on those cases before the defendant(s) had a day in court. Moreover, members of the Fulton County grand jury openly expressed animus towards Trump in interviews––landing book deals and job opportunities by towing the anti-Trump line.
This is another sick display of Banana Republic justice. These cases need to be summarily dismissed. Let voters decide political questions in their proper venue: the ballot box.
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