Georgia Prosecutors Considering Racketeering Charges Against Trump

The investigation into Donald Trump's potential election interference in Georgia is beginning to ramp up now that the state's primaries are over, and things aren't looking great for the former President. The prosecutor, Fani Willis, told The New York Times recently that it is possible that they come back with racketeering charges against Trump, which means that he and his allies would all go down. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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According to Fannie Willis, the Fulton county district attorney that is in charge of the ongoing Georgia investigation into Donald Trump. It may not just be interfering with the state's election laws that Donald Trump goes down for. Because according to a statement that she made to the New York times recently, they may also try to pop him and many of his associates for racketeering. Now last year, Willis actually brought in a prosecutor who specializes in racketeering. And of course she has about nine other prosecutors and, uh, agents working on this in addition to to the expert in racketeering. But she specifically told the New York times that is definitely an avenue that is wide open right now. And here's why that matters because of course, Hey, it's great. If you can take down Donald Trump, but isn't it better if you get everybody involved. So racketeering, what that would have to be is you would have to basically have enough individuals who participated in some way in the crime.

If a crime, of course is determined to have been committed. So if you have all of these individuals who basically play a small role in it, right? Like Donald Trump made the phone call to Ravensburger where he says guys, uh, uh, fellas, I need a thousand, 11,000 votes. Give me a break. It's direct quote from that phone call. So there's that you have Lindsay Graham who made phone calls. You have Rudy Giuliani who was involved. And of course you had officials in the state of Georgia who put together an alternate slate of electors to send, rather than the ones the state had selected based on the vote in the state of Georgia. So you've got lots of different people involved in lots of different ways in the attempt to overturn the 20, 20 election results in the state of Georgia. And of course, rather than going down each individual avenue saying, okay, well this person we've gotta go pop them on this charge.

This one, we gotta get 'em on this charge. If you go the racketeering route, you get to charge everybody with everything because they're all a part of the grand conspiracy. And of course, all of the fraud that goes along with that. So it's a much more difficult charge to come up with by the way. But if you're successful with it, you're going to take down everyone. I think obviously most people are familiar with racketeering, uh, through the movie, the dark night, you know, where you ended up with that court scene, where you had dozens and dozens and dozens of members of the mob that were all going down. I think it was actually hundreds of them. Um, and, and that's essentially what this would be. Of course, not quite as many players that we know of. I mean, heck who knows what could happen at this point, but here's the thing the grand jury is now convened in the state of Georgia. As we

All know, uh, Fannie Willis says she's got about 50 people that she's gonna call to testify before the grand jury, Brad Berger, the secretary of state, uh, he's the one Trump made the phone call to. He is obviously probably gonna be the star witness in all of this. He has cooperated, uh, based on all the reports that we have received. So this is not looking good for Donald Trump. And the reason I say that is because sure we've had relative silence from the state of Georgia in recent months. But apparently that was by design. See, the prosecutor did not want to go hard with this investigation until after George's primaries, because obviously one of the star witnesses, Brad Rothenberger was being primaried. So he's facing an election in Fannie Willis. You know, being a good person. She didn't need to do this, but she decided, listen, I don't wanna go too hard yet.

Obviously there's an election. I don't want my investigation to influence that. So I'm gonna let that kind of simmer for a bit, but once that's done, we're going full throttle. And based on what she told the New York times this past week, it does seem that they are in fact going pedal to the metal. And they're trying to get Trump and all of his associates on every possible charge. Things may have stalled in