The 98-page Georgia indictment against Donald Trump and his eighteen co-conspirators—no less worth the read than the 45-page January 6th indictment brought by federal prosecutor Jack Smith—contains 41 counts, of which Trump is accused of the following 13:
- Violation of the Georgia RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations)
- Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer (3 counts)
- Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer
- Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree (2 counts)
- Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings (2 counts)
- Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents
- Filing False Documents
- False Statements and Writings (2 counts)
If you’re like this humble spirit, you’re not sure whether to be incredulous that a former President of the United States could ever be accused of such crimes or numb to the overwhelming evidence that such criminal activity represents a normal day in the life of a low-life grifter like Donald Trump.
Many of Trump’s ridiculous tweets made between the November 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection (all considered “overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy”) have previously made the news and circulated on the Internet, but reading them afresh in one sitting reveals Trump as the nasty, incompetent, blithering fool that he is. They amount to nothing more than an exercise in throwing sh*t against the wall and hoping some of it sticks.
12/3/20: “Wow! Blockbuster testimony taking place right now in Georgia. Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were force to leave the counting room. Plenty more coming, but this alone leads to an easy win of the State.”
12/3/20: “People in Georgia got caught cold bringing in massive numbers of ballots and putting them in ‘voting’ machines. Great job @BrianKempGA!”
12/6/20: “Gee, what a surprise. Has anyone informed the so-called (says he has no power to do anything!) Governor @BrianKempGA & his puppet Lt. Governor @GeoffDuncanGA, that they could easily solve this mess & WIN. Signature verification & call a Special Session. So easy!”
12/14/20: “What a fool Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia is. Could have been so easy, but now we have to do it the hard way. Demand this clown call a Special Session and pen up signature verification, NOW. Otherwise could be a bad day for to GREAT Senators on January 5th.”
12/30/20: “@BrianKempGA should resign from office. He is an obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia, BIG! Also won the swing states.”
12/30/20: “We now have far more votes than needed to flip Georgia in the Presidential race. Massive VOTER FRAUD took place . . .”
1/3/21: “I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter Fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under the table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state voters, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!”
In typical Trump fashion, he says whatever he wants to say whenever he feels like saying it, without regard to the truth or even the consistency of his lies.
“Just Say the Election was Corrupt and Leave the Rest to Me and the Republican Congressmen.”
-Trump speaking to his Acting Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen
With no evidence to back up their claims, in early December one of Trump’s co-conspirators threw more sh*t against the wall:
- 2,506 felons voted illegally in Georgia.
- 66,248 underage people registered to vote before their 17th birthday.
- 2,423 people who voted were not registered to vote.
- 1,043 people voted who were registered at an address that was a post office box.
- 10,315 or more dead people voted.
Without any attempt to match those previous claims, in early January, just several days before the Capitol insurrection, Trump made the following false statements and representations to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other Georgia state officials:
- Anywhere from 250,000 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls in Georgia.
- Thousands of people attempted to vote and were told they could not because a ballot had already been cast in their name.
- 4,502 people voted who were not on the voter registration list.
- 904 people voted who were registered at an address that was a post office box.
- Ruby Freeman was a professional vote scammer and a known political operative.
- Ruby Freeman, her daughter, and others were responsible for fraudulently awarding at least 18,000 ballots to Joe Biden.
- Ruby Freeman stuffed the ballot boxes.
- Close to 5,000 dead people voted.
- Hundreds of thousands of ballots and been “dumped” into Fulton County and an adjacent county.
- He won the election in Georgia by 400,000 votes.
This list reads as if he made the numbers up on the spot or he was reading from a page of notes someone put down on his desk while he was on the phone. Did it occur to the man that if his fictitious numbers constantly changed he’d lose any shred of credibility? (It remains unclear as to why, among all the Black female election workers in Georgia, Trump and his co-conspirators picked on Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss.)