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Do you believe that?

1, do you believe he will actually release a report?
2, do you believe if he does that it will exonerate him?

I believe he will release a report. I dont know if it will exonerate him. We'll see what happens.

Can't wait to see this.

One silly nagging question is haunting me, If he had this data that proves him innocent, why the heck didn't he offer it up to Fani Willis long before now? He could have saved himself a ton of headaches and maybe even a load of money.

He is going to show pillow guys computer code. And say that is proof.

Oh, I'm absolutely certain that he'll release something.
I'm also certain that it will smell exactly like everything else he's "released" onto the public for the past 40 years.

Now that's a funny post. I mean - he said he'd release his tax returns. He said he'd build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. He said he knows all the best people but somehow dozens of people who once were in his inner circle are either convicted/prosecuted or have gone on record to insist the man is unfit for office. But somehow through a lifetime of proving that he's simply a sleazy car saleman born with a platinum spoon in his mouth - somehow he's going to choose NOW to do what he's never done before and come through with somehting real and meaningful?! Koolaid much?

Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump
Katelyn Polantz Jeremy Herb
By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN
Updated 9:52 PM EDT, Tue August 15, 2023




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Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.

In court on Monday, the former New York City mayor said the legal quagmires have left him effectively out of cash. He even appears to have responded to some of the money crunch by listing for sale a 3-bedroom Manhattan apartment he owns for $6.5 million.

Not including standard legal fees, Giuliani faces nearly $90,000 in sanctions from a judge in a defamation case, a $20,000 monthly fee to a company to host his electronic records, $15,000 or more for a search of his records, and even a $57,000 judgment against his company for unpaid phone bills.

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While he has declined in court to provide details of his financial state, his lawyers wrote this week that “producing a detailed financial report is only meant to embarrass Mr. Giuliani and draw attention to his misfortunes.”

Giuliani’s financial situation is likely to become even more difficult to navigate in the coming days. He faces potentially perilous court decisions against him in two 2020 election defamation lawsuits as early as this week.

While Giuliani’s attorneys’ fees have not been paid directly by Trump’s political action committee, Trump’s PAC paid more than $300,000 in May to a company handling Giuliani’s archived records for evidence preservation in court cases, according to federal campaign finance records and court filings.

“He is having financial difficulties,” Giuliani’s lawyers said in a filing this month in a civil defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers against him. “Giuliani needs more time to pay the attorneys’ fees and would like the opportunity to seek an extension from the Court.” 

Giuliani is facing disbarment proceedings in DC and New York. His law license is already suspended – a situation his attorneys say leaves him further hampered from making money. And he is facing a personal lawsuit from an ex-employee filed in May, which he is contesting. 

The criminal charges that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought against Trump, Giuliani and 17 others will undoubtedly add to the former mayor’s legal bills.

The indictment in Georgia against former President Donald Trump is photographed Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.
Takeaways from the Georgia indictment of Donald Trump and 18 others
That prosecution is separate from the federal election subversion investigation that looms over Giuliani. He is “Co-conspirator 1” in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. While he has not been indicted, prosecutors continue to investigate, including speaking with Giuliani’s ally, Bernie Kerik, about what Giuliani did to prove that Trump actually won the election, among other things, Kerik’s attorney told CNN. 

Robert Costello, a lawyer for Giuliani, declined to comment for this story.

Following his indictment in Georgia, Giuliani’s political aide Ted Goodman released a statement calling the case “an affront to American Democracy.”

Owed $320,000 for records searches after phone was seized
While all of the legal peril Giuliani now faces revolves around his work for Trump questioning the election’s result, a primary consequence he’d faced prior to Monday’s criminal indictment in Georgia had come from his inability to respond fully to 2020 election-related lawsuits.

When the FBI seized several of his cell phones in April 2021 in a now-closed investigation, much of Giuliani’s electronic records were held on a database operated by a company called Trustpoint.One. But they were archived, and running searches on files the company held for more recent litigation isn’t cheap. Even  hosting his records with the company costs $20,000 a month, according to a recent court filing.

Giuliani wanted to search the records so he could respond in each of the election-related lawsuits, according to court filings.

By May, Giuliani was more than $320,000 behind in payments to the document hosting company, according to a sworn statement he made in court. “I do not have the funds to pay this amount at this time,” he wrote. 

He negotiated for a year with what his lawyers say were “third-party funding sources” for help in paying his legal bills, and awaited funding for six months for help with the Trustpoint bill, according to Giuliani’s filing this week in the Smartmatic case.

Trump’s former attorney appears to have had some reprieve from the debts in May, plus an additional $20,000 cover for additional data searches, according to court filings, thanks to the former president’s political action committee. The PAC is not paying Giluiani’s legal fees – unlike many other Trump allies – but it has paid more than $400,000 to Trustpoint this year, with an unusually large sum  going to the company in late May for $340,000, according to federal campaign filings.

Days after that distribution, Giuliani said in one of the lawsuits he faces that he “obtained funding to pay the arrearage” and “cured” his outstanding bill with Trustpoint. He also discussed receiving that “donation” in his latest court filing, saying he thought it would help cover for the response he needed to make in the Smartmatic case.

But the $340,000 payment isn’t enough to cover more searches, Trustpoint “will not extend any further credit” to him, and his bill to keep his data held by the company will keep growing by the month, his court filings say.

“This is not merely an excuse that Giuliani trudges out when required to produce documents,” his latest filing said.

Trustpoint executives didn’t respond to requests for comment. 

Defamation lawsuits piling up
Giuliani is the defendant in several defamation lawsuits for his statements after the 2020 election.

A federal judge in Washington ordered him to pay a portion of the legal bills of Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman to cover what they had spent on attorneys litigating evidence-gathering disputes in the case, by July 25.  He still hasn’t paid that $89,000, according to court records.   

Two weeks later, Giuliani backed down from contesting Moss and Freeman’s claims that he made false statements about them in 2020, saying he wanted to “avoid unnecessary expenses in litigating.” 

Moss and Freeman are still trying to win the lawsuit, and a judge is considering ruling ultimately in their favor. But in the meantime, they have asked the judge to order Giuliani to pay another $44,000 of their legal fees stemming from their efforts to force him to hand over certain evidence in the case.

That’s only one lawsuit. Smartmatic, in its defamation case against Giuliani that prompted his growing data-hosting bill, asked a judge to sanction Giuliani – including by ordering him to reimburse the company’s legal fees – for failing to provide the company his records.

Dominion Voting Systems, which is also suing Giuliani for defamation, is seeking documents for their case but has not pressed the issue of sanctions before a judge at this time. Giuliani also faces a fourth defamation lawsuit related to the election from an executive at Dominion. 

Smartmatic pointed to the Trump PAC’s payments to Trustpoint as reason that Giuliani should be able to comply with its demands that he search his records and provide the company evidence as it builds its case, because it’s now apparent others might pay for Giuliani’s growing expenses.

But the former mayor said that’s not the case in his court filings on Monday.

Giuliani “cannot afford to pay at this point” another $15,000 to $23,000 for more searches for documents in the case, his attorneys wrote.

The New York state judge overseeing Smartmatic’s defamation case has a hearing set for Wednesday.

Everybody tune in next week on "The Clown Show" to see donald have the biggest report ever, bigger than any ever. Ratings will be huge.

I bet more people will be watching when the 19 show up at jail on live tv to get their picture taken and fingerprints.

And by the way, there are already arrest warrants issued for all 19. They need to turn themselves in at the jail by the 10 day time frame or the man is coming to get them to carry out the warrants.

I look for it to be much like the committee investigating Hunter Biden. Like an audio tape that they can't prove ever existed which was never even testified to because they couldn't even find the witness they claimed said it.

He’ll probably hold up a piece of paper that has the word “oxonuratid” written on it in crayon… this written under a crossed out word… “eggsonaratid”
His fans will clap like seals.

This trial will by all accounts take time.

And in the end it will come down to a jury of regular people.

Forgetting all the legal zleeze.

Play the tape. Play trump in his own words on tape. "Find me the votes to win."

Play it loud and clear. Just like "you can grab them by p****"

Twice impeached. 98 felony counts and running for president.

Hard letting that sink in.

And just as troubling is that he told Raffensperger that not to repeat the lies trump was spreading and reporting it as election fraud would be a criminal offense.

"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won this state, and flipping the state is a great testament to the country," Trump said. "I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break." "It's just not possible to have lost Georgia. It's not possible," Trump said.

"The ballots are corrupt, which is totally illegal," Trump said. "It's more illegal for you than it is for them, because you know what they did and you're not reporting it. That's a criminal offense, and you can't let that happen. That's a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer." "So, tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it's not fair to take it away from us like this. And it's going to be costly, in many ways."

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/15/trump-georgia-election-interference-call

If people don't consider that to be a threat it's because at the very least they aren't being honest with themselves.

RICO etc.

It could not be more clear than the tape.

Tie a bow on the false electors plot. Just play the tape and send him to prison along with the others who tried their hardest to steal an election from the voters of this country.

OMG…I’m exonerated because I say so.lol

Well when your president, you can wave your hand and poof, you are eggsonerated!

Yeph, Trumpism- say it often enough and it becomes the TRUTH. Check out the TRUMPITES on youtube- Trump is still President, the military is running everything, TRUTH SOCIAL is the only place to get your news etc.--COMPLETE idiots. Somehow we've lost we are all Americans- logic and facts once were prized- we be off the rails.

"When you're a star, they let you do it. Grab'em by the paperwork-"

How many elections are we going to need to steal before these MAGA turds get the message? Lol

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 other people 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. 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 jurors' purported addresses were spotted by Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan research group founded by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator and staffer for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.

“It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists," Jones said. "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence — is shameful.”

Advance Democracy also noted that users were posting the names and images of people believed to have been grand jurors on other social media sites. The posts asserted that the jurors had posted on social media in support of Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., former President Barack Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The indictment issued Monday lists the names of the grand jury members but not their addresses or other personal information.

Tuesday — after Trump posted on his social media website that authorities were going "after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!" — Advance Democracy said Trump supporters were "using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur" in posts.

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office, which is handling the surrender of Trump and his co-defendants over the next 10 days, declined to comment.

“We are not commenting on any issues related to grand jury security," said Natalie Ammons, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.

The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The grand jurors have come under attack in the days since Trump's indictment, the fourth criminal indictment brought against the twice-impeached former president.

“These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump," a post on a pro-Trump forum read in response to a post including the names of jurors, which was viewed by NBC News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...rump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239

And now it's being reported that direct threats to those grand jury members have followed along with the information that's being disseminated. No surprise there. Murica! Freedumb!

It's getting more and more dangerous for people willing to step up and do their civic duties. I applaud their patriotism and willingness to stand for the truth.

Them co-conspirators about to flip faster than burgers at McDonald’s

First, I hope the cameras are rolling at the press conference Monday. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Somehow, I think he is trying for an insanity defense, he believed it to be true, even though no one agreed.

Second, whomever posted the names of the grand jurors online may be in bigly, huge, tremendous trouble. Given the challenges that election workers have seen, normal people are going to be targets of the MAGA crowd.

My best guess from what I've been seeing is that it will just be more election fraud BS that he's repeated over and over again without any actual evidence to confirm it. Nothing but red meat for those already convinced that what he is saying is the truth. But we'll see. Claims he's made that every court in America has found to hold no merit.

Election workers who face frequent harassment see accountability in the latest Georgia charges

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tonya Wichman has overseen elections in a rural Ohio county for eight years and hasn’t experienced any significant problems with voting or counting the ballots. But that doesn’t mean no big worries at all.

What does concern her is the frequent harassment, intimidation and even physical threats she and her staff have been receiving since the 2020 election. It got so bad ahead of the 2022 midterms that her staff got police protection when leaving or coming to the office.

That’s why she was interested in the indictment this week of former President Donald Trump and 18 others charged in an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Among many charges, the indictment names several people accused of a harassment campaign that led to death threats against two Atlanta election workers.

It marks the highest-profile effort yet to hold people accountable for targeting state or local election officials, many of whom have left their jobs after facing political pressure or threats from those who falsely believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

“It’s nice to know that people are listening,” said Wichman, a Republican who is the election director in Defiance County, where Trump won over 67% of the vote in 2020.

“We understand the First Amendment and the right to free speech, but harassing poll workers and harassing election officials, intimidating their families, it’s just wearing down on people and causing good people to leave their jobs,” she said. “It’s been unsettling across the country.”

Election worker intimidation is one key element of the conspiracy alleged in the Georgia case. Tuesday’s indictment alleges that several of the defendants falsely accused Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman of committing election crimes and says some defendants traveled from out of state to harass and intimidate her.

The indictment charges Trump with making false statements and writings in claims he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state election officials on Jan. 2, 2021 — including that up to 300,000 ballots “were dropped mysteriously into the rolls,” that more than 4,500 people voted who weren’t on registration lists and that Freeman was a “professional vote scammer.”

Rudy Giuliani, a close Trump adviser at the time who also faces charges in the Georgia case, is accused of making several false claims about the vote-counting process at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Prosecutors say he falsely claimed that county election workers stationed there had kicked out observers and then “went about their dirty, crooked business,” illegally counting as many as 24,000 ballots. He also said three election workers — Freeman, her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and an unidentified man — were passing around USB ports “as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine” to infiltrate Dominion voting machines.

Three other defendants in the Georgia case — Harrison William Prescott Floyd, Trevian C. Kutti and Stephen Cliffgard Lee — were charged with solicitation of false statements and writings and with influencing witnesses related to the harassment of Freeman, who was falsely accused by Trump and others of committing fraud.

It was not immediately clear who was representing any of the three.

Edward B. Foley, director of election law at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, said the Georgia charges on top of the federal election case against Trump and a defamation lawsuit against Fox News are beginning to send a message.

“There was a sense that there was a free-for-all, that folks could attack the election with impunity and could attack particular individuals with impunity,” he said. “You’ve got to believe that all of these indictments — however they end up in trial, and with convictions or not — have changed the legal landscape and are going to cause people to think twice about this kind of behavior.”

Several other cases involving threats against election workers have drawn attention in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a Texas man who threatened election officials in Arizona and called for a mass shooting of poll workers was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an indictment against a 37-year-old Indiana man accused of threatening a Michigan election official. The target of that call was Tina Barton, a Republican who is the elections clerk in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

She said she was relieved when charges were finally filed in her case — three years after she received a voice mail with an expletive-laced message threatening to kill her and accusing her of fraud in the 2020 election: “Guess what, you’re gonna pay for it. You will pay for it,” the caller said, according to court documents.

In the years since then, Barton said she feared for her own safety and that of her family.

“The political atmosphere is so charged on both sides right now that it’s tough to have any conversation around anything along those lines. Including something that is an actual threat to someone’s life,” she said. “It becomes isolating.”

The call that led to the indictment was just one of many she received in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, but the others were not considered “true threats” under the high bar set by federal law. Only an intent to cause immediate harm is considered a crime — something that’s meant to protect free speech but can be little comfort to those targeted for harassment.

A Justice Department Election Threats Task Force formed in June 2021 has reviewed more than 2,000 harassing or threatening communications to election workers. Federal prosecutors have filed federal criminal charges in more than a dozen of those cases, including the case involving the Texas man.

In Georgia, the indictment alleges that Floyd recruited Kutti, who flew to Atlanta from Chicago on Jan. 4, 2021, to make contact with Freeman. Lee, the indictment says, communicated with Floyd by phone. The indictment says Kutti, Floyd and Lee all broke the law by “knowingly and unlawfully engaging in misleading conduct toward Ruby Freeman ... by stating that she needed protection and by purporting to offer her help, with intent to influence her testimony in an official proceeding in Fulton County, Georgia.”

Freeman and her daughter testified to Congress last year that Trump and his allies latched onto surveillance footage from November 2020 to accuse both women of committing voter fraud — allegations that were quickly debunked, yet spread widely across conservative media. Both women faced death threats for several months after the election.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has tried to address the threats through legislation.

She worked with state lawmakers last year on a bill that establishes election workers as a protected class against doxing — the release online of someone’s personal information. It makes the practice a misdemeanor and allows election workers to remove their personal information from online records. It also makes threatening an election official a misdemeanor under state law.

Colorado is one of 12 states to pass laws protecting election workers, either by shielding their personal information, increasing penalties for harassment or both, according to data gathered by the nonprofit Voting Rights Lab.

“There are many states that do not take threats to election officials, who are largely women, seriously enough,” Griswold said, noting that she continues to face a steady stream of threats even during lulls in election activity. “Hands down, this has been the hardest part of my job.”

https://apnews.com/article/election...Qe5OCx2fNdgAZvQuhu30ecLODMu15oE3_OdYSs4M

Don't think for one second that the trump crime syndicate doesn't know exactly what they're doing.

And of course as anyone using common logic would have seen coming, since the addresses and photos of these grand jury members were posted on right wing social media, we all pretty well knew what was coming next...............

Grand jurors in Georgia Trump case face threats, racist attacks

Grand jurors who voted to indict former President Trump in Georgia earlier this week are facing threats and a profusion of racist comments online.

The jurors’ names were listed publicly within the indictment, as required under Georgia law. A review of social media platforms and far-right forums found users posting numerous racial slurs and even the jurors’ addresses.

“Everyone on that jury should be hung,” one user wrote on a right-wing online forum.

On a different far-right site, the purported addresses of all 23 grand jurors tapped to serve in Trump’s case were posted in full.

“MAGAs posting the grand jurors addresses online,” a Truth Social user wrote. “I see a swift bullet to the head if, and when, somebody shows up at their homes.”

The existence of the threats was first reported by NBC News.

The threats were not only made on far-right platforms but also surfaced on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“Awful nice car you have there…hate to see something happen to it,” one user wrote on X early Wednesday morning, referencing the grand jury foreperson by name.

Others on X posted grand jurors’ social media profiles and their professional websites.

The grand jurors voted Monday to indict Trump and 18 co-defendants on a combined 41 charges. All 19 defendants are accused of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act — a law that was originally created to combat organized crime.

Prosecutors say the former president and his co-defendants plotted to overturn the state’s 2020 election results in an effort to keep Trump in the White House.

Ever since the grand jurors’ names were made public late Monday night, when the charges were filed, they have been repeatedly attacked online.

On one platform, a user made a post urging others to not post names of the grand jurors, warning it was a set up.

“Maybe something unfortunate NEEDS TO FN HAPPEN,” one user responded.

Another user said “if you do,” make sure to wear Antifa clothing and load the Democratic National Committee on speed-dial.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and Che Alexander, the Fulton County courts clerk, have also faced an onslaught of violent and racist threats in right-wing forums and on social media.

Trump himself has not posted the names of the grand jurors, but he has repeatedly attacked Willis and the charges in recent days.

The former president has also taken aim at the judges and prosecutors presiding over his other three criminal cases, including special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

A Texas woman was charged with threatening Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump’s federal case stemming from his efforts to remain in power, in a voicemail just after Trump’s indictment. The charge was first reported by Bloomberg.

Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, told The Hill that the potential for online threats to escalate to real-world violence is significant.

“The unfortunate reality is that, as we’ve seen time and time again, when the right-wing media ecosystem focuses on a target, online rhetoric quickly devolves into threats of violence,” Lewis said.

https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...6M05Wv1XzU6fYe1lqxQX06Hso0_gzvXok_guqcK8

Murica! Freedumb!

All of'em 'bout to put Simone Biles to shame-

Trump said he'd release a new report detailing election fraud in Georgia. His legal team thinks it's a bad idea: ABC News

Days after former President Donald Trump said he'd release a detailed report uncovering election fraud in Georgia that allegedly took place in the 2020 election, his legal team is pressing him to scrap the plan, according to a report from ABC News.

On Monday, a Georgia grand jury indicted Trump and 18 of his allies, alleging they conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump has since denied the allegations, calling them politically motivated.

A day after being indicted, Trump announced on Truth Social that he has plans to reveal a new report at a press conference next week in Bedminster, New Jersey, that would completely exonerate him from his litany of charges.

"A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey," Trump wrote. "Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others — There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!"

But despite Trump's post, the plans may not actually occur, especially after ABC News reported that his legal advisers have pressed him behind the scenes to cancel the event due to the risk of him possibly digging a deeper hole for himself to get out of in his Georgia elections case.

In his newfound Georgia case, state prosecutors have accused Trump of committing state RICO law violations, making false statements to state officials, filing false documents, soliciting a state officer to violate their oath of office, and more.

Trump's indictment in Georgia is the fourth time he's been indicted — both in state and federal court — over the past year over allegations he paid off an adult film star, mishandled classified documents, and tried to overturn the 2020 election. In all, he's been charged with 91 total felonies. He's also facing charges in New York regarding allegations he misled tax authorities and banks over the value of his assets in order to receive tax benefits and loans.

Whether or not Trump releases his report, he's still required to surrender himself to Georgia authorities by August 25 to avoid getting a warrant for his arrest, which District Attorney Fani Willis said she has at the ready.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...Pe5DvtW2J6f5Tuk9AmvWj5cVKAzsiEnvDkjqEKSY

I'm pretty sure it will happen. He just can't help himself.

It appears that finally he may be booked in the same way everyone else is.

And here it is. Attacking anyone and everyone trying to hold trump accountable.......

GOP state lawmaker calls for special session in Georgia to probe Fani Willis

A Republican state senator is calling for a special session of the Georgia Legislature to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), who charged former President Trump and others this week with attempting to overturn the 2020 election in the state.

State Sen. Colton Moore, who represents the northwest corner of Georgia, said Willis’s “political persecution” of Trump and her conduct following the indictment merits a thorough investigation.

“The Legislature has this great check and balance when it comes to controlling the purse. Ultimately, from what I’ve seen, I think she should completely be defunded of any state dollars. People in northwest Georgia and Georgians all over don’t want their tax dollars going to fund this type of political persecution,” Moore told The Hill.

“If it turns out that she’s doing some corrupt things, then absolutely impeach her,” he said.

Moore is pressing for a probe into Willis’s conduct due to poor conditions at Fulton County Jail, as investigated by the American Civil Liberties Union, and the drawn-out prosecution of rapper Young Thug.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose congressional district overlaps with Moore’s, cheered on the special session effort.

“Great job Colton!” she said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “There must be something done to stop Biden’s political henchmen like Fani Willis!!”

A special legislative session would require an order from Gov. Brian Kemp (R) or three-fifths of both the House and Senate to agree.

Moore told The Hill that while he expects support from his colleagues, he has not yet heard from members of the House and Senate who agreed on the merits of the effort. He also encouraged Georgians to call on their state legislators to back the special session.

“I just encourage all Georgia citizens to stop talking and get to action. Call their legislators, encourage them to sign on to this special session and keep the momentum rolling,” he said. “Because conservative Georgians and all Georgians are very upset when you have a political persecution going on.”

Willis filed charges against Trump and 18 others this week, alleging that the former president headed an effort to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia, a state in which President Biden secured the vote. Central to the investigation was a phone call Trump made to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), during which Trump asked him to “find” enough votes to change the result.

The case also alleges Trump’s attorneys attempted to set up a slate of fake electoral college votes and lied to and misled state election officials and legislators. The filing also claimed that other Trump allies stole and broke into the voting machines used during the 2020 election in Georgia.

Trump was charged with racketeering, a count usually reserved for the heads of criminal enterprises. Co-defendants included Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell as well as former chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Former Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer was also charged in the fake electors scheme.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...S2gZRpQxtWEjNM6gur1AuawC1YUkEASyk5H1h4O4

But then who would have expected anything less? They want to "probe " her? What an odd turn of a phrase.

Very grimy crimes indicted here and elsewhere. I really believe the trials are overdue; bump them up and begin.
I am okay with due process; I do have a problem with undue process and overdue justice if deserved. Defund some of this kind of media nonsense. This trial is well-deserved and long overdue IMO. Hand it to a jury sooner.

trump has violated the terms he agreed upon in the Georgia case.

It is time for justice and law and order to rule. Prove trump is not above the law.

Put him in jail. Make it clear to him that inciting others to violence will work against him.

We cannot allow a thug like trump to be like the mafia in Italy. Where judges and jurors are murdered.

It is time for the rule of law.

Anything said or released will be used against him in court. Trump is toast.

Trump is now firmly in the ‘find out’ stage of his criminal career. I wish him health and longevity so he can enjoy his golden years in prison.

I guess I will have to save my popcorn for another day…

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-cancels-news-conference-release-002252653.html

No “Press conference” to exonerate “Don the indicted Con” on Monday.

Had to cancel. He was already running low on paper… oxonuratid…. eggsonuratid…. igsanartated… acsonurratid…. axsonuratid… ixsonareeted…. Then his crayon broke.

He’s planning on faking his own death and plotting a scheme to blame Hillary, Joe, and, Hunter Biden. Then off to sipping pina coladas from a pineapple on a private South Pacific island laughing at all of us. … then he suddenly wakes up.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/18/georgia-trump-grand-jury-threats-investigation

Shocking No-one

So I wanna understand. If the grand Jurors have already rendered their decision to indict Trump, What exactly would the value be in harming them.. Their job is done... What did I miss? Are these people really that damn dumb?

Apparently you miss a lot. Are those people really that dumb?

While grand jury's might be public knowledge - I don't know for sure - publicly releasing their names even IF they are done - could possibly end with violence directed at them. What purpose it would serve is beyond me, other than terrorizing them, and making others skeptical of serving on future grand jury's. It's called intimidation.

If the grand jury that indicted trump gets hurt, how would you feel if you were on the trial jury?