We’ve got more Special Coverage on today’s BradCast of the fourth — and, theoretically, last, but who knows? — criminal indictment of our disgraced former President for the Summer season. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
On Monday’s show this week, just hours in advance of the massive new criminal charges out of Georgia, we detailed the dangers to next year’s elections of the illicit Coffee County, Georgia voting system software breach carried out by Trump supporters beginning on January 7, 2021 (and covered up in the many months that followed by Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger). The scheme — which we helped break last year and have been covering ever since — is now known to have been just one part of a multi-state conspiracy organized by Trump attorney Sidney Powell and hatched inside Trump’s Oval Office in December of 2020. It remains a huge threat to the security of next year’s Presidential elections across the entire state of Georgia and in more than a dozen states with jurisdictions using the same breached, proprietry hardware and software that was stolen from Coffee County.
On Tuesday’s show, we detailed the sprawling 97-page RICO indictment [PDF] of Donald John Trump and 18 co-conspirators charged with 41 felony counts by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia late on Monday. The charges are related to Trump’s alleged (and failed) criminal enterprise to steal the 2020 Presidential election in the Peach State (and elsewhere) and comes out of the two-year probe by Fulton County, D.A. Fani Willis. We broke down all of the charges, detailed those who were indicted, along with a focus on the specific charges brought against Powell and the three others facing several counts related specifically to conspiracies to commit Computer Theft, Computer Trespass, Computer Invasion of Privacy (“with the intention of examining personal voter data”) and Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud as part of the Coffee County scheme.
The new indictment brings the number of criminal felony charges that our disgraced former President is now personally facing in four different jurisdictions at both the state and federal level to a gob-smacking 91!
And then on today’s program, our hot indictment summer continues, with both legal and political analysis of the new indictment with two old friends. Former attorney KEITH BARBER of Daily Kos (who joined us last week for a splendid preview and explanation of what RICO charges are!) is with us again today, along with award-winning Salon columnist and Hullabaloo blogger HEATHER DIGBY PARTON.
Among the many topics discussed on today’s program related to the latest Trump Indictment and what it means moving forward into next week’s first-of-the-season GOP Presidential debate and next year’s election…
- General thoughts on and surprises from the new indictment.
- Barber on “the power of RICO”.
- Parton on her article on whether former Trump Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows may be cooperating in Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s federal case on Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election.
- Barber on Meadow’s motion to move his indictment from state to federal court.
- How and why did Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) escape indictment from Willis, despite his participation in the criminal enterprise to steal the Peach State election for Trump?
- The still wildly under-investigated matter of the scheme to replace Mike Pence as President of the Senate overseeing the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021 with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). (Willis refers fleetingly to this scheme in her indictment, see p. 44; Barber wrote a bit about this as “Trump’s Plot To Kidnap The Vice President” back in April of 2022.)
- Trump’s post-indictment Tuesday morning claim that next Monday he will release an “Irrefutable REPORT” on “Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia” in 2020 which he claims will be a “complete EXONERATION!” for him. (Giggle.)
- How that “REPORT” is likely to be an unlawful continuation of the same criminal enterprise under RICO that he is already charged with.
- What we should expect from next week’s first-of-the-season 2024 GOP Presidential debate in Milwaukee and whether Trump will (or should) show up for it.
- My continuing — if, apparently, controversial — Spidey Sense (not a prediction…just a sense, as explained today) that Trump will, ultimately, not end up being the GOP Presidential candidate on next year’s ballot…
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Thom Hartmann reported on his show that in 8 weeks, a new Georgia law takes effect that empowers the governor to fire ANY state prosecutor he wants and replace them with anyone he chooses.
This gives Gov Kemp the power to utterly dismantle the Georgia investigation, if he so chooses.
How much benefit could Kemp get by helping Trump?
Would Kemp DARE fire Willis?
And if he wants to, who could stop him?
DonL – It’s not quite that cut and dry. The Governor first has to set up a Commission. People need to be nominated to it. Then they need to deliberate, create a report, gather evidence, etc., before making a recommendation for the removal of a prosecutor.
So, it’s not quite as straight forward as you explained it there. But, of course, it is something to keep eyes on…
The GOP is horrible at governing.
But they are creative and super-efficient at rigging the system.
Can’t find anything to disagree with on that point, Don. 🙁
I doubt any of these names are new to you or your election experts, Brad.
Washington Post tried to pin down the seven unindicted co-conspirators in Coffee County.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/08/16/coffee-county-fulton-unindicted-coconspirators/