After more than two years of investigations, late last night a Fulton County, GA, grand jury indicted the felonious Malignant Loser and 18 of his co-conspirators with illegally trying to change the results of the 2020 Presidential election in Georgia. The lede paragraph from the Associated Press :
"Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and other aides of a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power.
The nearly 100-page indictment details dozens of acts by Trump or his allies to undo his defeat, including beseeching Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to find enough votes for him to win the battleground state; harassing a state election worker who faced false claims of fraud; and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of electoral college electors favorable to Trump.
In one particularly brazen episode, it also outlines a plot involving one of his lawyers to tamper with voting machines in a rural Georgia county and steal data from a voting machine company."
A copy of the indictment is here (pdf). The Malignant Loser was charged with 13 counts in the sweeping indictment, including violating the state’s racketeering act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiring to file false documents. The indictment includes a total of 41 charges against the 19 individuals; all were charged with violating the state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. From this morning's Washington Post story:
"Among those charged are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro.
Also indicted were two Georgia-based lawyers advocating on Trump’s behalf, Ray S. Smith III and Robert Cheeley; a senior campaign adviser, Mike Roman, who helped plan the elector meeting; and three prominent Georgia Republicans who served as electors: former GOP chairman David Shafer, former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still and Cathy Latham of Coffee County.
Several lesser-known players who participated in efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in Georgia were also indicted, including three people accused of harassing Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman. They are Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd and Trevian Kutti. The latter is a former publicist for R. Kelly and an associate of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West." (our emphasis)
It's particularly gratifying that the scumbags that harassed Ms. Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss were named in the indictment. The Fulton County indictment dovetails with Special Counsel Jack Smith's January 6 indictment in that many of the same conspirators show up in both.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis stated that the indicted have until August 25 to turn themselves in.
BONUS: Some takeaways from the 98-page indictment here.
(photo: Committing crime no doubt. Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
