Former President Trump faces new charges in his fourth indictment this year, this time in Georgia, where prosecutors say he participated in a plot to overturn the state’s 2020 election results to s…
Very true, but there’s already some celebration-worthy convictions flowing. And shit is really stacking up with 91 felonies, now including a RICO charge. Trump’s legal schedule sounds like an absolute fucking nightmare. I wouldn’t be able to sleep a minute.
From a NYT piece:
At this point, Mr. Trump is about to become a professional defendant. He has already been found liable for sexual abuse by a jury that ordered $5 million in damages in a civil trial this year, and his family-run business has been convicted of 17 counts of tax fraud and other financial crimes in a separate criminal trial.
Mr. Trump has five more trials scheduled between now and May — the hush money case, the classified documents case, a New York State civil fraud trial and two federal civil trials. A sixth trial will be scheduled in Mr. Smith’s election conspiracy case and now a seventh on the Georgia counts. Altogether, that would mean nine trials for Mr. Trump since leaving the White House, not counting the Senate impeachment trial just after his term expired.
But these four criminal trials matter the most. The table has now been set, the issues laid out by four grand juries in four locations. All told, they have charged him with 91 felonies, any one of which could send him to prison for years.
Violation of RICO in GA carries a minimum five year prison term,
EDIT: "[Or] a fine" that "does not exceed the greater of $25,000 or three times the amount of any pecuniary value gained". Because the pecuniary value is zero, I find it very difficult to believe that a $25,000 fine would be considered an appropriate consequence to violation of GA RICO in this case.
The GA governor cannot pardon, there is a pardon board,
Even if the pardon board grants pardon, that does not take effect until five years after the sentence is served.
Look at all the people being charged alongside Trump for RICO. When RICO is prosecuted, all co-conspirators are charged as a group. They all get the same sentence.
They're all going to prison.
EDIT:
And and -- In order to be convicted of RICO in GA, a minimum of two crimes must be shown to be part of the same criminal enterprise. Of 19 defendants, it is highly likely that one or more will plea deal and cooperate. Another edit: Because an alternative sentence for a GA RICO violation is a fine, with no prison, that's a basis upon which other defendants or co-conspirators would be motivated to make the plea deal and cooperate.
It's all over but the shouting. Donald Trump is going to be convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia.
The cherry on top is that Rudy Giuliani's office taught DAs how to use the racketeering laws to get mob bosses in the 80s. Now he's charged with it. I love it.
Not that I have a lot of hope for the outcomes on any of these.