Both the Washington Post and the New York Times have long articles detailing what we know about Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Both are worth reading; no paywalls. The New York Times says that about 20 people have been informed they could face indictments in Fulton County.
Axios is reporting that it’s very possible the Georgia trial would be televised. “Georgia law requires that cameras be allowed during judicial proceedings with a judge’s approval. Cameras are seen as an important aspect of transparency,” it says. A judge would need a compelling reason to bar cameras.
Axios is also reporting that Trump is doing public witness tampering.
Former President Trump on Monday appeared to warn former Georgia lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan against testifying before the Fulton County grand jury in the state’s 2020 election probe.
Driving the news: “I am reading reports that failed former Lt. Governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, will be testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Monday.
“He shouldn’t. I barely know him but he was, right from the beginning of this Witch Hunt, a nasty disaster for those looking into the Election Fraud that took place in Georgia.”
Duncan, who criticized Trump’s false election fraud claims in 2020, said Saturday that he had been told to appear Tuesday before the Fulton County grand jury.
In other indictment news: David Kurtz at TPM reports that Trump spent the weekend blasting nasty social media posts at Judge Chutkan, who is overseeing his federal J6 trial. See also Trump jabs at judge in election case, testing warning against ‘inflammatory’ statements at Politico.
Trump’s maybe trying to goad her into doing something to get her removed from his case, or he’s trying to intimidate her, or he’s trying to get her assassinated. Whatever.
Kurtz’s analysis is very much worth reading. I’ll just quote a little bit —
I don’t expect dramatic action from Chutkan immediately for reasons that mostly make sense in this particular moment: she might not want to escalate this fight too quickly but rather leave herself room to ramp up down the road when it might really be needed, she doesn’t want to get bogged down in First Amendment fights over a gag order, she doesn’t want to feed Trump’s narrative of this all being a personal attack on him. … But I suspect she and Trump are on a collision course that can’t be avoided indefinitely.
That first part is an underrated one. Domestic abusers like Trump and my ex-spouse use it all the time. He wants CNN to spend the next month demanding that Chutkan at the very least apologize, if not be removed.
But in the end, of course, this is Donald Trump we're talking about, so "whatever" is the really operative word here. A Black woman is telling him what not to do, so he's doing it.
If he has competent counsel, that counsel is pulling his/her hair out.
More likely is that Trump and his attorney wind up in jail.
Every time El Trumpo wags his tongue, he adds months or years to his sentence. Anyone who helps put the Orange Fungus behind bars will be a national hero, like Sherman during the Civil War or Obama when he defeated Bin Laden.
It's a simple concept… Trump just doesn't want to take his medicine. The truth and the reality is that Trump has run out of options and all that's left for him is to make noise and bellyache about how he's being done wrong.
Look – Trump has rarely been held to account in 77 years of cheating. It's not surprising that Trump expects to get away with trying to steal an election. I think Trump is ignoring the advice of his sane lawyers and directing the bat-sh^t crazy ones to file ridiculous motions and lawsuits.
Three attorneys recently walked. I'm guessing that what Trump demanded as a "defense" was illegal, unethical, or so preposterous that the lawyers refused to put their names on it. He's called on the Republicans in Congress and the USSC to intervene. (Can't happen.) Trump is captain of the Titanic, refusing to admit the inevitable even as the ship sinks by the bow. IMO, Trump thinks he can summon the MAGA mob to strike down his enemies. Next time they try to storm a government building, there will be a bloodbath. Especially in DC. The more violent MAGA gets, the larger will be Trump's margin of defeat.
When Trump has no cards left to play, he'll want to negotiate whatever will keep him out of jail. Guess who Trump has to go to? Bragg, Smith, and Willis. After insulting the prosecutors and their families, after asking his mob to murder these civil servants, Trump's gonna ask, how much money will it cost to keep me out of jail? (I saw my lawyers make nice with the prosecutor, even after he pulled some stuff. You may want to dicker and if you've roughed up the prosecutor, he will remember it.) Any "deal" has to be approved by the judge. (Remember how the Hunter Biden deal fell apart.) So insulting the prosecutor and judge comes back to haunt you.
I think Chutkan will nail Trump in two weeks when the trial date is set. Trump wants the trial delayed until '25. Smith wants it in Jan '24. The date the judge has to consider is March 25 – that's when NY brings the criminal hush-money case to trial. If the Chutkan wants to go after Bragg, then Trump gets a delay until May? Yeah, the FL federal docs case is set for May but Cannon won't hear the case then. Even if she wanted to, the issues related to access to classified documents aren't close to being resolved. I'm not sure what latitude Chutkan has in scheduling a trial conditionally but Cannon won't go in May. I'd bet on it.
Can Georgia go to trial before the election? It may depend on whether Cannon allows indefinite delays. Georgia is not bound by the DOJ maxim to avoid prosecutions around the time just before an election. It's not a federal law – it's just customary in federal prosecutions. But if the judge in Georgia is so inclined, September and October are open.
Time for the dancing banana.
There are 19 people charged in the Georgia case, according to the indictment.
Donald Trump, former US president
Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer
Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff
John Eastman, Trump lawyer
Kenneth Chesebro, pro-Trump lawyer
Jeffrey Clark, top Justice Department official
Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign lawyer
Robert Cheeley, lawyer who promoted fraud claims
Mike Roman, Trump campaign official
David Shafer, Georgia GOP chair and fake elector
Shawn Still, fake GOP elector
Stephen Lee, pastor tied to intimidation of election workers
Harrison Floyd, leader of Black Voices for Trump
Trevian Kutti, publicist tied to intimidation of election workers
Sidney Powell, Trump campaign lawyer
Cathy Latham, fake GOP elector tied to Coffee County breach
Scott Hall, tied to Coffee County election system breach
Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor
Ray Smith, Trump campaign attorney
I think a chorus line of dancing bananas are in order.
I see that only one fake elector was indicted. I wonder what to make of that. I don't see it as a good omen for Trump and his minions.
Kudos to Fani Willis and her DA Staff in Fulton County.
A Grand Jury, not the prosecutor, determined that there was enough evidence to establish probably cause that the defendants committed an organized crime conspiracy.
The indictment and the summary that she gave at the short news conference clarified the whole sprawling enterprise, including close to a hundred criminal actions, all carried out in service of an organized attempt to "seize the term" of the US presidency that began in January of 2022. Impeccably stated.
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