Why Is the Georgia Indictment So Dangerous?

 A 41-count, 98-page indictment charging former President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators was presented by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Wallis at 10:30 p.m. Georgia time on Monday night. The indictment was all over the news yesterday and today. The indictment has been described by many different words, but Ben Shapiro described the indictment as a missile fired “directly into the heart of American politics.” 

According to the indictment, the criminal act committed by Trump and his alleged co-conspirators was to “knowingly and willfully [joining] a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.” Shapiro explained that the crime is based on whether Trump knew that he had lost the election. According to Shapiro, “all the accusations about him fall away” IF Trump truly believed that he had won the election.

Shapiro said that there is a major problem with the fact that Willis charged RICO. By doing so, “Willis extends the case to people who may have admitted that Trump lost the election.” Such an action has two purposes:

First, it puts these alleged co-conspirators in serious legal jeopardy, giving them reason to flip on Trump himself.

Second, it may allow Willis to charge Trump as part of a criminal conspiracy even if he personally believed he won the election – after all, case law suggests that co-conspirators can be charged under RICO even if they didn’t agree on every aspect of the conspiracy, so long as they knew the “general nature of the enterprise.”

Shapiro also indicated that the Georgia case is particularly dangerous for Trump because it is a state case. “The Manhattan case against Trump rooted in campaign finance allegations is incredibly weak and is an obvious stretch; the Florida and D.C. cases against Trump are federal, which means that if elected president, he could theoretically pardon himself.” Because the Georgia case is state-based, Trump would be imprisoned in a state prison and unable to pardon himself.

Besides the danger of being imprisoned, Trump’s presidential campaign will be handicapped because he will be tied up in the various court cases and unable to campaign as he would normally do.

What’s more, every waking moment for the media will be coverage of those court cases. That will make it impossible for Trump – even if he were so inclined, which he has shown no evidence of being – to talk about President Joe Biden rather than his legal peril. And there has yet to be a single piece of data suggesting that Americans are driven to vote for Trump because of his legal troubles.

To pardon yourself, you have to be elected president. But spending your entire presidential race in the dock makes that a radically uphill battle.

All of this is quite terrible for the country. No matter what you think of Trump’s various legal imbroglios – from mishandling classified documents to paying off porn stars to calling up the Georgia secretary of state in an attempt to “find” votes – the glass has now been broken over and over and over again: Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. It will not be unbroken.

If you think that only Democratic district attorneys will play this game, you have another thing coming. Prepare for a future in which running for office carries the legal risk of going to jail – on all sides. Which means that only the worst and the most shameless will run for office.

The secret combinations who want to control America and Americans will try to destroy anyone who tries to expose them and destroy their power. Right now, they are fighting Donald Trump. If Trump gives up or goes down, they will go fight Ron DeSantis or anyone else who threatens their power.

America is lost if Republicans do not fight back and win this battle and go on to win the war. The milk-toast type of Republicans, such as Mitch McConnell or Mitt Romney, who try to get along with the Leftists are knowingly or unknowingly abetting the secret combinations.

Americans must realize that the problem is so huge that it will not be solved in one presidential election. Communists have been trying to take over America for more than fifty years, and they have infiltrated all the institutions of America. America fell into this condition over many generations, and America will not be saved in a short period of time. It will take an entire generation to root out the corruption in the government and to destroy the power of the secret combinations. Do you love America enough to join the fight?