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August 18, 2023

Fani Willis puts violence front and center

Right up front, the indictment handed down Monday by a grand jury in Atlanta alleges:

Members of the enterprise, including several of the Defendants, falsely accused Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman of committing election crimes in Fulton County, Georgia. These false accusations were repeated to Georgia legislators and other Georgia officials in an effort to persuade them to unlawfully change the outcome of the November 3, 2020, presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. In furtherance of this scheme, members of the enterprise traveled from out of state to harass Freeman, intimidate her, and solicit her to falsely confess to election crimes that she did not commit.


The indictment describes defendants traveling to election worker Ruby Freeman’s home to mislead and intimidate her.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/17/willis-georgia-indictment-violence/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkyMjQ0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjkzNjI3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTIyNDQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjhhYWVmNGM5LWM2OTQtNDFiYi04M2MxLTlkYzFjMTg5Mjc4YyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzA4LzE3L3dpbGxpcy1nZW9yZ2lhLWluZGljdG1lbnQtdmlvbGVuY2UvIn0.3dmZnEY3gxG_5BpkidS3P3-5UL8Rm21AwKKtnfVALdM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/indictment-document-trump-georgia/
August 18, 2023

DUH, WE ALL KNEW IT - Trump Cancels Monday News Conference

August 17, 2023 at 8:30 pm EDT

Donald Trump said on Truth Social that his lawyers would prefer that he didn’t have a Monday new conference to unveil his “irrefutable” evidence of fraud in the 2020 Georgia election.

Instead, he said the lawyers will “put it in formal legal filings.”

https://politicalwire.com/2023/08/17/trump-cancels-press-conference-for-next-week/

August 18, 2023

People believe this b/c it's true.

Two in three Americans believe that if Republicans win control of government, they will pass a nationwide abortion ban - a deeply unpopular policy

https://twitter.com/JesseFFerguson/status/1692315538725199934?s=20

August 18, 2023

"Is Your Child A Left-Wing Extremist?"

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August 18, 2023

Trump: "You should schedule all the trials of those in pretrial detention awaiting trial before me."

Trump says, You should schedule all the trials of those in pretrial detention awaiting trial before me.

As if his release conditions are like anyone else's.

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1692329798754865353?s=20
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1692319951778889879?s=20
August 17, 2023

I Confess

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August 16, 2023

DEPLORABLE! Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online

A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

ATLANTA — The purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants on state racketeering charges this week have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, NBC News has learned.

NBC News is choosing not to name the website featuring the addresses to avoid further spreading the information.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced racist threats ahead of the return of the indictment and additional security measures were put in place, with some employees being allowed to work from home.

The grand juror's purported addresses were spotted by Advance Democracy, Inc., a non-partisan research group founded by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator and staffer for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

MORE:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1691895112454791644?s=20
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1691890360119595134?s=20

August 16, 2023

NYC mobsters and mob lawyers are "f--king thrilled" to see Giuliani charged with RICO

Wiseguys Rejoice at Seeing NYC Mafia Buster Rudy Giuliani Indicted on Trump RICO Charge
'They're f--- thrilled,' veteran mob lawyer Murray Richman said of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations rap out of Georgia tied to 2020 election

Published 08/16/23 02:51 PM ET|Updated 23 min ago
Ben Feuerherd and Bruce Golding

Rudy Giuliani's indictment on a racketeering charge has New York City mafiosos gleeful at the prospect that, if convicted, the former federal prosecutor could be brought down by the same law he wielded against La Cosa Nostra.

Veteran mob lawyer Murray Richman told The Messenger that he's "spoken to several of my clients" since Giuliani, former President Donald Trump and 17 co-defendants were charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

"You can quote me to say, 'They're f------ thrilled,'" Richman said Wednesday.

"I don’t want to say the language, but they really ripped Rudy a new a------."


https://themessenger.com/news/wiseguys-rejoice-at-seeing-nyc-mafia-buster-rudy-giuliani-indicted-on-trump-rico-charge?utm_source=onsite&utm_medium=latest_news
https://twitter.com/benfeuerherd/status/1691886757455782125?s=20
August 16, 2023

We need to be calling it now "The Republican Party's effort to overturn the election"

Never Trump leader Stuart Stevens proclaimed: “This is basically a Rico indictment of the Republican Party. As it should be. Every Republican elected official who refused to acknowledge the winner of the 2020 election is an unindicted co-conspirator.”

Democrat adviser Simon Rosenberg wrote in his daily memo to top officials following Monday’s indictments: “We are now coming to understand that the vast conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election was a party-wide Republican effort, involving hundreds of prominent Republicans across the U.S., including the RNC chair. We need to be calling it now ‘The Republican Party’s effort to overturn the election’ and not just limit it to Trump, or ‘Trump and his allies.’ ”

https://www.worldtribune.com/analysis-no-longer-the-america-we-knew-and-the-world-revered/

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