“With Trump, you don’t need to look for a dog whistle. It’s a bullhorn when it comes to race. And I do think that’s deliberate. We’ve seen the — I mean, slanderous attacks that he has put out against Fani Willis, you
know, alleged things I won’t even repeat. So, he’s not really hiding that he’s going to lean into that element, and this is, you know, taking place just outside of Atlanta. When you saw the courtroom, it was a lot of Black men and women who are serving in that courtroom … It’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise.” – Former White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah If anything illustrates the depth to which Donald Trump and his supporters have sunk in responding to his racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, it’s his reference to those he falsely accuses of voter fraud as “riggers.”
MAGA extremists, who have been using the word as a substitute for the n-word on far-right social media sites, responded with racist delight.
Trump has put a dishonest, racist, and misogynistic spin on the old legal adage: If the law is against you, pound the facts. If the facts are against you, pound the law. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.
But the amount of pounding and yelling can obscure the breathtaking lawlessness outlined in the sweeping indictment Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed this week against Trump and his 18 alleged co- conspirators. By charging them under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Willis has, at last, cast their brazenly corrupt conduct in the proper legal light.
While the narrowly-focused federal indictment that Special Counsel Jack Smith filed against Trump earlier this month acknowledges six alleged co-conspirators, they are neither identified nor charged. Fulton County’s indictment of 18 co-conspirators – and ref- erence to 30 more unnamed, unindicted co-conspira-
tors – illustrates the far-reaching scope of the massive scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Trump’s alleged criminal enterprise operated not only in Fulton County; but “elsewhere in the State of Georgia, in other states, including, but not limited to, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylva- nia, and Wisconsin, and in the District of Columbia.” Its members engaged ,…
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