Georgia Prosecutors Bring In Racketeering Expert For Trump Case

Prosecutors in Georgia have tapped an expert in prosecuting racketeering cases to help with the investigation into Donald Trump's actions regarding the Georgia election. This is a major development, and it signals that the case is expanding, rather than contracting. Farron Cousins explains what this new step means for Trump and for Georgia.

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The district attorney in the state of Georgia and Fulton County, actually the County where they're looking at whether or not Donald Trump attempted to influence the election with this phone call, where he said, find the votes will they have now brought in a new lawyer, a lawyer who happens to be an expert in prosecuting racketeering cases. And if you're not familiar with racketeering, let me just kind of boil it down to its most basic legal principles. And this was a, you know, the Rico act of 1970, they put that out there because you had these mafia bosses that were able to get away with things because they had all their underlings actually committing the crimes. So they come up with this new law that say, listen, if you were a part of it, if you were any part of it, if you told the person to go do the crime, you're also just as equally guilty. So whoever you can charge with a crime, I'm sure as we all remember from the dark night, whoever you can charge with a crime, you can charge everybody involved with that same crime that's Rico. That is what this prosecutor is an expert in. And this is now the person who the Fulton County da says, you know what? As I look more into what Donald Trump may or may not have done here in Georgia, I'm thinking I may need to bring in some racketeering experts.

Uh, here's what this likely means. It likely means that we right now only know about 10 to 20% of the story we know about the phone call. We know about Donald Trump saying, go find the votes and that's kind of it, right? Yeah. We know about his, uh, loyal lawyers who weren't totally weren't working for him, just filing all these lawsuits on his behalf in States like Georgia, you know, people like Sidney Powell and Linwood. Um, and that's what we know is that a conspiracy though, you know, cause is with racketeering, you gotta be able to show there's a big conspiracy. So I don't think having these lawyers who he, Trump was meeting with file lawsuits. I don't know that that's necessarily conspiracy to change the results of an election or to interfere in an, in an election skews me. So I'm thinking there's a lot more that we don't know about.

There has to be, cause you, I wouldn't try to prove a conspiracy. If you had Trump friendly lawyers, firing, uh, filing lawsuits, um, that's a separate matter because you deal with those fraudulent frivolous lawsuits, uh, with the bar association of the state, they're going to handle those. And if they feel the need, they might be able to prosecute. That's not part of the racketeering. If racketeering took place, maybe this guy is just a good friend of the Fulton County da and was looking for some work. Maybe it has nothing to do with racketeering. Maybe it's just totally a coincidence that they bring in the racketeering expert. When they're trying to look at what Trump may or may not have done in the state of Georgia, maybe it's all a big old coincidence, or maybe there's a hell of a lot more happening behind the scenes. Maybe there is a ton more evidence that they have uncovered and maybe they have found a lot more players in this alleged conspiracy than we know about time will tell, but let's keep an eye on Georgia. Cause things are starting to get really interesting over there.

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