Donald Trump has been indicted again… again… again. This time by a grand jury in Georgia, which charged the ex-president, along with 18 other defendants, with felony racketeering and numerous conspiracy charges in a 98-page, 41-count indictment issued late last night after a nearly two-year investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the Peach State.
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 an 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.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis charged Trump and his henchmen under the state’s mafia-busting Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which is often used to take down organized crime groups, Ponzi and embezzlement schemes, and public corruption cases.
It’s a powerful law enforcement tool. The Georgia RICO statute allows prosecutors to bundle together what may seem to be unrelated crimes committed by a host of different people if those crimes are perceived to be in support of a common objective.
“It allows a prosecutor to go after the head of an organization, loosely defined, without having to prove that that head directly engaged in a conspiracy or any acts that violated state law,” Michael Mears, a law professor at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. “If you are a prosecutor, it’s a gold mine. If you are a defense attorney, it’s a nightmare.”
In response to Trump’s latest indictment, the ex-president’s pesky lesbian niece, bestselling author and all around badass Mary Trump, reminded everyone that organized crime has been her uncle’s modus operandi for the last half a century, ever since he was first took over the family business and was quickly sued for violating the 1968 Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent to Black people.
“In fairness, he’s been the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s–this one just includes people who aren’t actually members of his family,” she tweeted late last night.
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In fairness, he's been the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s–this one just includes people who aren't actually members of his family.
She followed that up with a longer post on Substack, writing, “I’m still trying to process what’s happened tonight—and obviously there is still a lot we don’t know—but for reasons I can’t yet fully articulate, this feels different from all of the indictments that have come before. This feels pivotal, this feels more real.”
“Go to sleep. Hydrate. Breathe. And remember: Hillary Clinton was right about everything,” she added.
Speaking of Hillary Clinton, she just happened to be on Rachel Maddow‘s show on MSNBC for a live interview at the very moment news of Trump’s latest indictment broke and her immediate response was, well, maybe it’s better if you take a look for yourselves…
Clinton later expressed regret over the whole situation, telling Maddow, “I don’t know that anybody should be satisfied. This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes.”
“The only satisfaction is that the system is working,” she continued. “That all of the efforts by Trump and his allies and enablers to try and silence the truth and undermine democracy have been brought into the light. And justice is being pursued.”
Shortly after indictment was issued, Trump’s camp released a statement saying “the events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with the leak of a presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had testified or the grand jurors had deliberated and ending with the District Attorney being unable to offer any explanation.”
If convicted, the 77-year-old, one-term, twice-impeach, four-time-indicted ex-president, who has already been indicted in New York, Florida, and Washington, D.C. for his business dealings, handling of classified documents, and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, faces between five and 20 years in prison plus a fine.
And that, Marjorie, just so you know, and your children will someday know, is the night… the lights… went out… IN GEORGIA. pic.twitter.com/boGPr38tAI
— Billy Flanagan, pissed-off faguette (@waflanagan) August 15, 2023
“She didn’t want to be the first lady and she was unapologetic about it. She wasn’t interested in doing what we expected of her.”
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the fact that the trump synchronized megaphone team focuses on the inadvertant early release of the story is telling. they know what’s coming. RICO, mr trump/gambino. buh bye
“In fairness, he’s been the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s” — yes, and anyone who paid attention to that back in 2016 would not have voted for him. Laziness and conservative laissez faire to Republicans being criminals got him here. They are their own worst enemies and they still have not learned. Anyone who votes for Trump is not voting for any ideal (Trump is an actual Rino, you know)–they’re voting for deviancy.
most of america only knew him from “the apprentice” and believed his business man pitch. thankfully, they got it together before dr oz. plus, let’s face it, hillary had much baggage. BUT NOW WE KNOW!!!!!
A sizable portion of the people who voted for him in 2016 and 2020 did not care that he was the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s. They didn’t care about his multiple transgressions (groping women’s crotches, the dozen+ alleged rapes and sexual assaults), his incessant lying (which only got worse once he got into office in 2017), his bankruptcies and corruption, none of it.
He was and remains an icon of anti-democratic, fascist White supremacy and racial, ethnic, class, and gendered domination, as the Charlottesville march made quite clear, and many of the people who are still supporting him do not even care that nearly 1 million people died under his watch from Covid (worse than many other countries of comparable size), that he blew up the US economy in 2020, that he and his corrupt family basically made bank off US taxpayers, that he tried to overthrow a US election in Washington and numerous states, and that his tenure was marked by failed domestic and international policies (including worsening climate change) that they and their children will have to deal with.
People voting for Trump know what they’re getting, and they’re quite happy with it.
As has been said here, a huge percentage of people who vote for Trump don’t actually care about the bad things he’s done, for various reasons. It’s easily half his supporters, who one could very reasonably call deplorable, if one felt so inclined.
Hillary’s baggage was that the Republicans hated her and would work extra hard to make her work difficult.
But who cares? They tried to do that to Biden and Obama, and we did it to Trump. Hillary was supremely qualified, her scandals were only magnified because the press kept trying to find a way to balance bad news about Trump with bad news about her. Like equating the Clinton Foundation’s delicate setup as being even in the same universe as the scam that was Trump’s.
We knew then what was at stake. The Supreme Court. Competent governance. A steady hand in charge of foreign relations. We couldn’t predict a pandemic, but we could predict who could be trusted to actually care about us and work to solve problems – the only candidate who spent her life doing that.
It’s an absolute disgrace how anyone justified their votes for Trump. Period.
I hate to inform you but many Trump supporters are very rich, highly educated Americans. A sizable portion of the participants in the failed January 6, 2021 coup were highly educated professionals, not “low IQ morons.” They may look like that and I think lots of people believe this, but a sizable portion of Don the Con’s cult are very wealthy, elite-educated people. Look at his co-conspirators in the federal case against him or now down in Georgia. Jeff Clark is an honors Harvard grad! Look at Josh Hawley (Yale and Stanford), Ted Cruz (Princeton and Harvard), etc. Look at the billionaires who back him; many are highly educated! Don the Con went to an Ivy League school himself!
Just think about this: Don the Con had numerous associates successfully convicted for lying about contacts with a hostile foreign power, Russia, before and after he took office in 2016. We have never had a US president with so many associates, including his campaign manager, convicted of lying about contacts with a hostile foreign power. Ever.
Don the Con was impeached the first time for attempting essentially to extort a foreign leader (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) to smear his chief rival, Joe Biden, BEFORE THAT RIVAL HAD WON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION in 2020! And despite all the evidence, the Senate GQP let him off the hook.
Don the Con attempted to overthrow a legitimate election, which he soundly lost, in 2020, by lying about it and fomenting an attempted coup, for which he was impeached a second time. And despite all the evidence, the Senate GQP let him off the hook.
Don the Con left office, finally, with a country in freefall. Economically, socially, healthwise, in terms of the US’s standing in the world, you name it, he left it in bad shape. He left massive deficits and debt, a lost trade war with China, nearly 1 million dead from Covid, a shattered US economy, and on and on.
House, Senate, federal, and state investigators have now looked more deeply into that attempted coup and found even more crimes, some of which weren’t as clear back in 2021, and are now trying to hold this monster to account. Had we had 20,000 or 30,000 more votes in key states for Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote by 3 million votes and would have been an excellent president, we would have avoided this disaster. Everyone who decided they could not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 should hang their heads in shame!
My first election was 2000. Nothing motivates like seeing a well-deserving candidate (who would have made a thoughtful and sensible president in difficult times) lose an election because of people throwing away votes to a liberal third party or just staying home because only traditional charisma or royal f*ck ups get them to the polls. Except plenty of people seem to have forgotten or ignored that election and how it changed the face of the world, learned no lessons from it, and committed the same mistakes all over again.
i know she won’t say, but Hillary is so glad about the indictment, just like the rest of us. now all we need is a conviction and incarceration. fingers crossed!!!
Trump and transies, the insane ideologies of the nation. One attacks democracy the other attacks all bio women and children.
May the alligators full on charge and attack to clear the swamps.
To be fair, and I try to be fair, these charges are stunning and I can’t see a way out for these people from serious jail time. To preserve the rule of law, unless there is some crazy finding that the tape recorded discussion did not happen and he is innocent, Donald J. Trump and his co-conspirators to usurp the election, need to go to prison for multiple years.
This will be bigger than the OJ Simpson trial. It will be a real circus and Don will likely be found in contempt of court multiple times and be locked up for the duration of the trial, as a start. Silver lining, he will get credit for time served 🙂
Georgia law requires that bail not be granted to anyone who may be focused on witness tampering, which Donald does in spades. He may get locked up upon surrender. That would surely be a silver lining. The resulting chaos however, could be overtly dramatic.
My biggest fear is that Biden will continue to make a complete ass of himself and hand Don Donaldo the election on a plate. And then there’s our UnBorder Czar Kamala in the wings should Biden not be there for his full term. She doesn’t exactly give me the warm and fuzzies either.
“We don’t need another hero
We don’t need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond Thunderdome”
Hopefully Trump will be six ft under sooner than later. Maybe with a sandwich in mouth. LOL. He’s stupid and his cult are more stupid.
They wouldn’t be welcomed at his resort. They think one day, they will be as rich as he is.
A millionaire not billionaire because we all know he lies about his wealth too.
The biggest problem right now is – this is August and this is sucking all the oxygen from the room. There is no one in Washington to talk to; everyone is gone until Summer recess ends and the only people running for the microphones are his mouthpieces. It’s nothing except right-wing pundits spouting how great this is for Trump and left-wing hype mongers wringing their hands over what the right-wing pundits are saying. As I often say, “It’s high Summer and the a$$holes are in full bloom”.
How about everyone just turn off the feeds until the adults return to the room in September?
Hillary Clinton is the single person most responsible for his ever becoming President in the first place, so I’m over needing to hear what she thinks about politics. And before anyone starts, I voted for her in 2008 (willingly) and 2016 (reluctantly).
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jcool
the fact that the trump synchronized megaphone team focuses on the inadvertant early release of the story is telling. they know what’s coming. RICO, mr trump/gambino. buh bye
abfab
He should rot.
woodroad34
“In fairness, he’s been the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s” — yes, and anyone who paid attention to that back in 2016 would not have voted for him. Laziness and conservative laissez faire to Republicans being criminals got him here. They are their own worst enemies and they still have not learned. Anyone who votes for Trump is not voting for any ideal (Trump is an actual Rino, you know)–they’re voting for deviancy.
jcool
most of america only knew him from “the apprentice” and believed his business man pitch. thankfully, they got it together before dr oz. plus, let’s face it, hillary had much baggage. BUT NOW WE KNOW!!!!!
Kangol2
A sizable portion of the people who voted for him in 2016 and 2020 did not care that he was the head of a criminal organization since the 1970s. They didn’t care about his multiple transgressions (groping women’s crotches, the dozen+ alleged rapes and sexual assaults), his incessant lying (which only got worse once he got into office in 2017), his bankruptcies and corruption, none of it.
He was and remains an icon of anti-democratic, fascist White supremacy and racial, ethnic, class, and gendered domination, as the Charlottesville march made quite clear, and many of the people who are still supporting him do not even care that nearly 1 million people died under his watch from Covid (worse than many other countries of comparable size), that he blew up the US economy in 2020, that he and his corrupt family basically made bank off US taxpayers, that he tried to overthrow a US election in Washington and numerous states, and that his tenure was marked by failed domestic and international policies (including worsening climate change) that they and their children will have to deal with.
People voting for Trump know what they’re getting, and they’re quite happy with it.
abfab
@jcool Do you now anyone without baggage?
AOW
Most people have “baggage”, Trump has a whole train of baggage cars
smittoons
As has been said here, a huge percentage of people who vote for Trump don’t actually care about the bad things he’s done, for various reasons. It’s easily half his supporters, who one could very reasonably call deplorable, if one felt so inclined.
smittoons
Hillary’s baggage was that the Republicans hated her and would work extra hard to make her work difficult.
But who cares? They tried to do that to Biden and Obama, and we did it to Trump. Hillary was supremely qualified, her scandals were only magnified because the press kept trying to find a way to balance bad news about Trump with bad news about her. Like equating the Clinton Foundation’s delicate setup as being even in the same universe as the scam that was Trump’s.
We knew then what was at stake. The Supreme Court. Competent governance. A steady hand in charge of foreign relations. We couldn’t predict a pandemic, but we could predict who could be trusted to actually care about us and work to solve problems – the only candidate who spent her life doing that.
It’s an absolute disgrace how anyone justified their votes for Trump. Period.
Mister P
When they go to vote for trump, they’re not sending their best……
In fact, his supporters look like low IQ morons who hate America.
Kangol2
I hate to inform you but many Trump supporters are very rich, highly educated Americans. A sizable portion of the participants in the failed January 6, 2021 coup were highly educated professionals, not “low IQ morons.” They may look like that and I think lots of people believe this, but a sizable portion of Don the Con’s cult are very wealthy, elite-educated people. Look at his co-conspirators in the federal case against him or now down in Georgia. Jeff Clark is an honors Harvard grad! Look at Josh Hawley (Yale and Stanford), Ted Cruz (Princeton and Harvard), etc. Look at the billionaires who back him; many are highly educated! Don the Con went to an Ivy League school himself!
abfab
Mister P said ”they look like” morons. And huge amounts of them are morons. White trash morons and a sprinkinling of paid gays and blacks for trump.
But you’re right, Kangol. Many degrees to flaunt.
But very little common sense. They are nasty, deplorable, born again, illogical rejects.
Mister P
Ok they’re morons who hate America.
Continued support for him does not look good on anyone.
abfab
And many are super obese. I am shaming these super obese trumper-morons. Big time.
DBMC
It’s only because of the corrupt justice system he wasn’t prosecuted before this.
abfab
He is now beginning to rot and let’s hope it won’t be long until he is dead. He’s wasted enough of our time, our resources and we are over him.
Hillary is still the logical and delightful person she always has been. She won the popular vote BECAUSE SHE IS POPULAR!
DESTROY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE NOW.
Kangol2
Just think about this: Don the Con had numerous associates successfully convicted for lying about contacts with a hostile foreign power, Russia, before and after he took office in 2016. We have never had a US president with so many associates, including his campaign manager, convicted of lying about contacts with a hostile foreign power. Ever.
Don the Con was impeached the first time for attempting essentially to extort a foreign leader (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) to smear his chief rival, Joe Biden, BEFORE THAT RIVAL HAD WON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION in 2020! And despite all the evidence, the Senate GQP let him off the hook.
Don the Con attempted to overthrow a legitimate election, which he soundly lost, in 2020, by lying about it and fomenting an attempted coup, for which he was impeached a second time. And despite all the evidence, the Senate GQP let him off the hook.
Don the Con left office, finally, with a country in freefall. Economically, socially, healthwise, in terms of the US’s standing in the world, you name it, he left it in bad shape. He left massive deficits and debt, a lost trade war with China, nearly 1 million dead from Covid, a shattered US economy, and on and on.
House, Senate, federal, and state investigators have now looked more deeply into that attempted coup and found even more crimes, some of which weren’t as clear back in 2021, and are now trying to hold this monster to account. Had we had 20,000 or 30,000 more votes in key states for Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote by 3 million votes and would have been an excellent president, we would have avoided this disaster. Everyone who decided they could not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 should hang their heads in shame!
smittoons
My first election was 2000. Nothing motivates like seeing a well-deserving candidate (who would have made a thoughtful and sensible president in difficult times) lose an election because of people throwing away votes to a liberal third party or just staying home because only traditional charisma or royal f*ck ups get them to the polls. Except plenty of people seem to have forgotten or ignored that election and how it changed the face of the world, learned no lessons from it, and committed the same mistakes all over again.
Fahd
Not to contradict the headline here, but imo the best response to MarLardo being indicted again would be “Guilty as Charged”.
LumpyPillows
Guilty as charged, not based on our bias, but on his very own words out of his very own gob.
SUPREME
i know she won’t say, but Hillary is so glad about the indictment, just like the rest of us. now all we need is a conviction and incarceration. fingers crossed!!!
LumpyPillows
Hillary, unlike dumb Donny, knows when to keep her mouth shut.
Diplomat
Trump and transies, the insane ideologies of the nation. One attacks democracy the other attacks all bio women and children.
May the alligators full on charge and attack to clear the swamps.
LumpyPillows
To be fair, and I try to be fair, these charges are stunning and I can’t see a way out for these people from serious jail time. To preserve the rule of law, unless there is some crazy finding that the tape recorded discussion did not happen and he is innocent, Donald J. Trump and his co-conspirators to usurp the election, need to go to prison for multiple years.
This will be bigger than the OJ Simpson trial. It will be a real circus and Don will likely be found in contempt of court multiple times and be locked up for the duration of the trial, as a start. Silver lining, he will get credit for time served 🙂
Fasten your seat belts.
Diplomat
Georgia law requires that bail not be granted to anyone who may be focused on witness tampering, which Donald does in spades. He may get locked up upon surrender. That would surely be a silver lining. The resulting chaos however, could be overtly dramatic.
LumpyPillows
Regardless of the fallout, put him in jail.
abfab
The resulting chaos? Cupcake, we’re in the chaos. Are you afraid of a little more drama?
Diplomat
Lumpy,
Absolutely. Seems the poopey baby is all up in arms about Georgia mug shot laws. Can’t wait to see it plastered across the world
MISTERJETT
yes, it will be a circus for sure and the big, dumb, orange clown will be right in the middle of it.
JMD41
My biggest fear is that Biden will continue to make a complete ass of himself and hand Don Donaldo the election on a plate. And then there’s our UnBorder Czar Kamala in the wings should Biden not be there for his full term. She doesn’t exactly give me the warm and fuzzies either.
“We don’t need another hero
We don’t need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond Thunderdome”
abfab
VP Harris would make a great president. Who out there gives you the warm and fuzzies?
DBMC
@abfab
Absolutely! I will happily take Harris over any of the miscreants currently running for the Republican nomination.
humancobras666
Hopefully Trump will be six ft under sooner than later. Maybe with a sandwich in mouth. LOL. He’s stupid and his cult are more stupid.
They wouldn’t be welcomed at his resort. They think one day, they will be as rich as he is.
A millionaire not billionaire because we all know he lies about his wealth too.
abfab
Booked.
RIGay
The biggest problem right now is – this is August and this is sucking all the oxygen from the room. There is no one in Washington to talk to; everyone is gone until Summer recess ends and the only people running for the microphones are his mouthpieces. It’s nothing except right-wing pundits spouting how great this is for Trump and left-wing hype mongers wringing their hands over what the right-wing pundits are saying. As I often say, “It’s high Summer and the a$$holes are in full bloom”.
How about everyone just turn off the feeds until the adults return to the room in September?
FreddieW
Hillary Clinton is the single person most responsible for his ever becoming President in the first place, so I’m over needing to hear what she thinks about politics. And before anyone starts, I voted for her in 2008 (willingly) and 2016 (reluctantly).
abfab
That’s a stretch. And feel free to keep your voting habits private.