They gonna git him. Nothing can stop it.
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Georgia Prosecutor Investigating Trump Says “Prison Sentences” Are on the Table
Cue the shrieks of “witch hunt!” out of Mar-a-Lago.
Is Donald Trump ever going to be brought to justice for his decades of shady, unethical, seemingly criminal activity? On the one hand, the fact that he’s evaded legal repercussions for this long suggests he made a deal with a witch allowing him to get away with anything and everything in exchange for his brain.
On the other, the Georgia prosecutor investigating Team Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election is literally out here talking about potential prison sentences. So, there’s that!
In an interview with The Washington Post published Thursday, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis revealed her office has been on the receiving end of credible allegations that major crimes were committed, and that “if indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences.” She also said that an official decision on whether to call Trump before a special grand jury will likely be made “late this fall.”
Thus far, the Post notes, those identified as criminal targets of the Georgia probe include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and more than a dozen individuals who “created unofficial documents proclaiming Trump as the winner of Georgia’s electoral votes, even though he lost the state.” When it was revealed last month that the former New York City mayor turned ex-Trump attorney was a target of the investigation, attorney Norman Eisen told The New York Times: “There is no way Giuliani is a target of the DA’s investigation and Trump does not end up as one. They are simply too entangled factually and legally in the attempt to use fake electors and other means to overturn the Georgia election results.” (Both Giuliani and the fake electors have denied wrongdoing.) In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Trump said he has yet to receive any letters informing him he is a target of a criminal investigation; he also denied taking part in a multistate plot to send fake electors to Washington, and falsely claimed that alternate elector slates are “common.”
In addition to the elector scheme, Willis’s office is examining possible criminal wrongdoing in false statements Giuliani and others made to lawmakers, harassment of election officials, tampering of election systems, and calls made by Trump and his allies to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the election results in the state. On January 2, 2021, Trumpphoned up Georgia secretary of stateBrad Raffenspergerand demanded that Raffensperger “find” him the number of votes necessary to beatJoe Biden in Georgia,saying, “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” before threatening the local official for refusing his request. Raffensperger has also said that during a November 2020callwith Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina asked him if he had the power to throw out mail-in ballotsfrom certain counties. According to the Post, Willis recently began seeking detailed information about the threats made against Fulton County elections worker Ruby Freeman, who said during one of the January 6 committee’s hearings in June that she became the target of terrifying abuse, spearheaded by the ex-president and his allies. “I’ve lost my name, and I’ve lostmy reputation,” Freeman said in a taped deposition. “I’ve lost my sense of securityall because a group of people,starting with number 45 and hisally Rudy Giuliani, decided toscapegoat me and my daughter,Shaye [Moss].To push their own lies abouthow the presidential electionwas stolen.” While Willis declined to comment on recent court filings regarding the alleged harassment, she told the Post: “I hate a bully. Obviously, I think we would find it offensive to bully an election official to influence an election.”
Apart from Trump and Giuliani, Willis’s office is also scrutinizing onetime Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Per the Post:
Taken as a whole, Willis has indicated the various threads of the investigation could result in RICO charges:
“The RICO statute allows you to tell jurors the full story” of a complex conspiracy, Willis told the Post. “It’s a great statute for prosecutors.”
Throughout her entire investigation, Trump has repeatedly attacked Willis—presumably because he’s terrified of what her investigation might shake out. On social media, he called her a “young, ambitious, Radical Left Democrat…who is presiding over one of the most Crime Ridden and Corrupt places in the USA.” At a January rally, he dubbed her and other prosecutors “vicious, horrible people” and told his supporters, “If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, DC, in New York, in Atlanta, and elsewhere.” Given the ways Trump supporters have previously taken the ex-president’s calls for “protest[s]” to heart, that’s more than a little concerning, especially with the ex-president actively threatening the country with “big problems” if he is indicted.
Georgia Prosecutor Investigating Trump Says “Prison Sentences” Are on the Table
