Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
an attorney for mark meadows said in a court filing that the proceedings should be moved because meadows was acting in his capacity as a federal official. the attorney says, nothing meadows is alleged to have done is criminal per se. arranging office meetings, contacting state officials on the president s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the president. one would expect a chief of staff to the president of the united states to do those sorts of things. nbc news reports that trump is also expected to file to move the case to federal court. i m not a lawyer but even i know that is ludicrous. saying because he was chief of staff, he had to help trump plan his coup because that s what his boss wanted tad is asanine. it won t work. it shouldn t work for trump who