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
trump rise to say, georgia is in trouble. let my republican colleagues do the rest. we didn t know it at the time. but everything was riding on a very, very thin read at that junction. and claire, we know how willing and trigger happy his aides in the coup plotting part of what he was doing those days were to use the insurrection act. we know that jeffrey clark invoked it. we know that from jack smith s indictment, and we know, this is pat cipollone answering qu aut this executive order, this drafted executive order on seizing voting machines from the january 6th committee. on a broader scale, why is this a bad idea for the country? to have the federal government seize voting machines? that s a terrible idea. that s not how we do things in