The Political Weaponization Against the Donald Trump Team in the Georgia Indictment
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani has been charged, along with Donald Trump and seventeen other co-conspirators, with being a mobster boss in a well-connected scheme to profit off of illicit activity. This is ironic, being that Guiliani brought down legitimate members of the Mafia and others in connection with racketeering crimes, and now, the state of Georgia, under Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is indicting him with those very same crimes. On top of left-wing commentators getting all giddy about the mug shots of Giuliani and Trump, as if they have nothing more substantive to talk about than less-than-flattering photographs, some are bringing up the idea that mobsters who were put away by the former mayor are having their last laugh (apparently, Democrats are more sympathetic toward mobsters than Trump and Guiliani).
But wait a minute, what profit exactly have Trump and Guiliani made off of the so-called crimes that they are being charged with? Even if they attempted to undermine our basic democratic foundations, as the Trump-hating cult out there suggests, do their activities even fall under racketeering? According to Cornell Law School, racketeering is “a set of illegal activities aimed at commercial profit that may be disguised as legitimate business deals. Racketeering is defined by a coordinated effort by multiple people to repeatedly earn a profit. Typically, by fraud, extortion, bribery, threats, violence, or other illegal means. (See 18 U.S.C. § 1961).” Where are Trump’s and Giuliani’s profit motives and business deals?
If there really were an official and legitimate attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election results, would that not fall under treason? Would the charges not have been initiated immediately and not over two years later and right before the 2024 election season kicks off (the timing of the chain of indictments is very suspect)? The threat would have been so grave and urgent that our justice system would simply have needed to rid the country of the traitors who almost thwarted our democracy, right? Is the reason that the Democratic Party is attempting to utilize Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws is that it knows that it cannot charge the former president and his co-conspirators with anything else except racketeering? The party needs something to take down the leader of the opposition, so perhaps this is the tool in which to do so.
Is it a coincidence that Georgia is the place for the Democratic Party to eliminate its enemy? The Georgia RICO law is much broader and easier to get a conviction on than the federal one (which is already pretty conviction friendly), and under this law, the state does not even need to prove that an organization or official project of criminal activity existed. It can simply just charge for any pattern (short term or long term) of criminal behavior (in two related instances), and such “racketeering” crimes include: drug offenses, homicide, bodily injury, arson, burglary, forgery, theft, prostitution, obscene materials, bribery, witness tampering, perjury, evidence tampering, commercial gambling, distilling liquors and alcoholic beverages, firearm violations, securities violations, credit card fraud, computer crimes, kidnapping, carjacking, and making terroristic threats. Yes, Georgia has an entire sixty-five potential offenses, as opposed to thirty-five under the federal law.
Obviously, none of the crimes that Trump and Giuliani are being charge with were in the sights of Georgia lawmakers when they passed this bill, but that does not matter to a party that is bent on destroying its political rival’s chances of coming back to power. It is willing to just throw out the concept of justice in exchange for throwing anything against the wall to see what sticks by a grand jury (and what will be a criminal jury in time) in a jurisdiction that is anti-Trump (Atlanta is a Democratic city, and the jurisdictions where Trump’s other three indictments are held are also Democratic zones).
The fact of the matter is that the United States has almost one-quarter of the entire world’s prison population (yes, the land of the free had more prisoners per capita than every other nation on earth up until 2023, when it dropped just below El Salvador, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, and Cuba), and according to Harvard University professor Harvey Silverglate, the average American commits three felonies per day, indicating a mass incarceration and over-criminalization problem (too many laws). So, it should be no surprise that the Democratic prosecutors could manipulate and find laws to charge Guiliani and the entire Trump team (Trump is facing a potential 717.5 years in prison across ninety-one charges).
In addition to the weaponization taking place under the Biden administration’s Department of Justice and Merrick Garland (and Special Counsel Jack Smith), Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis; these indictments, and particularly the one in Georgia, threaten the right to legal representation, since Trump’s lawyers (including Guiliani) are being charged. Democrats can argue (and do) that John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith, and Robert Cheeley conspired to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but that is a huge task to prove.
Inquiring to officials about election results and finding legal strategies to ensure that the election was fair and not rigged are not things that should be prosecuted in a free country. Simply parroting the propagandistic talking points that Trump was spreading the “Big Lie” does not automatically make this the most secure election in history. After this case, what lawyers are going to want to represent clients who support Trump (including January 6th political prisoners) if they know that they can be indicted for doing so? The Georgia case sets a bad precedent that will gradually lead us down the path toward lack of counsel.
Of course, the Democratic Party will focus on Trump’s “PERFECT PHONE CALL” to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes and the “fake electors” scheme. A biased jury, which will undoubtedly be influenced by the corporate media’s reporting, will likely find that the former president and his team were guilty in pressuring officials and subverting democracy, since the entire country is being propagandized by these types of talking points (it will not be possible to find jury members that have not heard news reports and do not have any opinions on this political matter). However, if the Georgian official really felt threatened by a phone call, he would not have just ignored Trump like he did, and therefore, it is pretty safe to say that no threat existed. Again, if there really were a legitimate scheme to subvert democracy, as is being suggested, Trump should have been charged immediately for treason, not racketeering over two years later.
The other aspect of this that Democrats will ignore is the threat to free speech, since part of the Georgia case pertains to Trump spreading “false” election claims to officials, the population, and his team. Similarly to the January 6th indictment, which I have covered separately, anything pertaining to the rigged election claims should be thrown out, since speech is protected in this country (roughly half of the January 6th indictment dealt with how Trump spread lies and tried to persuade people that the election was stolen, which are not crimes). Even though the Democratic Party denies it, Trump and his team are partially being tried for “spreading lies.” This should be clear to anyone who is not blinded by their hatred of Trump.
Amid calls to bar Trump from running for office (by claiming that he was the head of an “insurrection,” which is absolutely false and absurd) or strip him from the ballot in some states, which is ironic coming from the supposedly pro-democracy and pro-choice crowds; Trump seems to be rising in the polls and among the population. Perhaps the Democrats’ political weaponization of the government is backfiring and this will lead to the former president pulling a Grover Cleveland (or, maybe the Democrats are master planners and want Trump to become more popular so that he can be easily defeated by their nominee in the general election). However, even if the ninety-one charges over four indictments fail, as we have seen previously, the permanent bureaucracy (with a pro-Clinton and pro-establishment bias) and secret police in this country will likely attempt to prevent Trump from taking office. They can easily shape the narrative (see the Hunter Biden laptop story), censor information (see the Twitter and Facebook Files), find more charges out of thin air (too many laws on the books), and assassinate Trump (like John F. Kennedy). Either way, our country faces dark times, and this Georgia case is the icing on the cake that may spark another civil war.
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