Polish Your Dancing Shoes for the Upcoming Trump Indictment Social, Maybe
An indictment of Donald Trump is likely to be coming in the coming weeks, according to the New York Times. The story is jam packed with asides about how he could end up not being charged, so don’t call out of work until we hear something official.
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Before I get to the nitty gritty of this latest bit of hope, I’d like to share with readers what should happen locally when an indictment is announced.
Via Indivisible, in alliance with a broad range of local activist groups:
Rallies will be held at 5pm local time on the day the indictment process is announced. However, if the announcement of indictment is made after 2pm ET, the rallies will be held the following day at Noon local time. (We will update the timing of this event if/ when an indictment occurs.)
The currently projected location for the San Diego rally is at 301 West Broadway (amid the courthouses)
Participants at the event will send the message that the grand jury’s indictment upholds a bedrock principle of our country: No One Is Above The Law – not even former presidents of the United States.
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The NY Times bases its prediction on the receipt of information that the Manhattan investigating circumstances surrounding the former President’s role in the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The prosecutors offered Mr. Trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case, the people said. Such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close; it would be unusual for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, to notify a potential defendant without ultimately seeking charges against him.
In New York, potential defendants have the right to answer questions in the grand jury before they are indicted, but they rarely testify, and Mr. Trump is likely to decline the offer. His lawyers could also meet privately with the prosecutors in hopes of fending off criminal charges.
A Georgia special grand jury has recommended that perjury charges be pressed against unspecified individuals allegedly involved in the Former President’s phone call to election officials asking for 11,800 votes.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is in a race to wrap up the investigation and a new State Law critics say is aimed at removing her from office. Under “normal” circumstances, it might take weeks or months to enable this new law, but Georgia’s shameful history of trial by lynching would suggest an overnight enablement.
Via TruthOut:
Willis is investigating Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he demanded that the official “find” him 12,000 more votes so that he could override now-President Joe Biden’s win in the state. In that phone call, which was recorded, Trump threatened Raffensberger and his attorney with legal consequences if they didn’t comply with his request. It is illegal in Georgia to attempt to coerce officials to engage in election fraud.
Political commentators have noted that the bill that passed the state legislature this week — along with another Republican proposal that seeks to lower the recount signature threshold needed for elected officials in the state — came about around the same time that Trump-aligned Republicans realized that a recall campaign against Willis would be futile. Some of the most vociferous supporters of the bill are Trump allies who have been targeted by Willis’s investigation, including Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R), who was among the fake electors that Trump’s campaign tried to include in the Electoral College in order to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election.
Indictments are not an automatic guilty plea. Donald Trump has been skirting the law for decades, always making sure the evidence was hidden or discredited by testimony from flunkies.
His bluster and bellowing has meant prosecutors were reluctant to pursue charges, lest their careers get ruined in a wave of lies and belligerence.
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