The implications of the RICO case against Donald Trump

 The implications of the RICO case against Donald Trump

The left will stop at nothing to bombard Donald trump with as many weaponized legal cases as possible; with the most obvious attempts failing, they're floundering, trying to use newly modified state laws and state prosecutors who have egregiously let guilty people go while prosecuting obviously innocent people. Just like cases such as with Kyle Rittenhouse or the McCloskey's, there has been a growing and worrying effort to circumvent the written law and use as subjectively interpreted statutes as possible to target people the left doesn't like, facts be damned. The weaponization of the legal system against their political opponents and in favor of up to and including murderers is nothing particularly new, such as a Kathy Hochul appointed prosecutor letting someone who tried to assassinate her chief political opponent running for governor with a knife live on television out the next day (and the republican governor candidate only lost by 2%), or for someone who ran over a Republican 18 year old out the next day in New York, and the attacks on people such as Kyle Rittenhouse and the like, however these types of egregious cases have finally made it to the upper echelons of Republican politicians, now including Donald Trump. The Rico case has not only sought to prosecute Trump and his family, but most absurd his lawyers and anyone who has tried to defend him publicly, claiming that by mere words alone, largely on twitter, that they are a part of some kind of conspiracy to bring legal challenges to the vote, which is not itself even a crime. These state charges were brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat who has been investigating Trump since 2021. They are aimed at not only Donald Trump but in an egregious 1st amendment violation, people who merely gave him legal advice such as Mark Meadows, and his lawyers who should be additionally protected as lawyers a well as from merely providing legal advice to Trump. 

Clearly enraged by Trump's challenging of the election, such as something Al Gore did after Bush, or the democrats and Hillary did with Trump in his first election claiming that Russians "hacked" the election, actual news headlines, they've decided to prosecute him over literal words, a not only ridiculous infringement of freedom of speech, but a baseless argument for a case. But regardless of how flimsy or absurd any of the charges are against Trump and how obviously politically motivated it is, there is a chance these charges may succeed. It only requires a jury and a judge to sign off on it, and if they can find enough jurors and a judge who hates trump enough, and many see him as a nazi white supremacist fascist second coming of Hitler, it wouldn't be impossible to prosecute him even if such a statute is easily challenged in the supreme court or obviously illegal in their own state courts. It actually would be quite easy enough to find 11 democrats in Georgia who hate Trump enough to see him thrown in prison no matter the charge. We've even had public statements by prior jurors saying as much themselves in other cases, and the current Judge and prosecutor in the case both worked together and were appointed by Democrats. And the reason Georgia was likely chosen over all over states, is that the governor is incapable of pardoning Trump and a review board would need a minimum of 5 years to review the case against him or any of his people, and the RICO statute requires a mandatory 5 years in prison. It also doesn't require that Trump break any laws, but rather than they can find a way to tie the supposed and unconvicted crimes of other people to Trump by insisting his tweets constitute part of a conspiracy, and then impart the mandatory 5 year unpardonable state sentence against Trump, despite his supposed federal crimes. 

Even if the Democrats fail to prosecute him, they are likely to throw him in prison, gaining a political victory by smearing him as guilty, and humiliating him by forcing him to go jail and that would entail, including being put in with a general crowd that may quickly attack him and finger printing him. The media storm that will ensue and the damage it will do to him in the polls, combined with the chunk of flesh they will get from him, all planned out a single day in advance of the Republican debate, will be enough to do it's damage. Even if he fails to be arrested or indicted, even if the charges are dropped quickly, even if the Supreme court intervenes, the damage to Trump's political reputation will be done and the left will have a field day patting themselves on the back and celebrating explosively about how horrific they are. They'll need rotor cuff surgery for how much they'll be patting themselves on the back for destroying this country and violating every thing this country stands for when it comes to freedom and democracy. The left and many moderates will presume guilt merely by his arrest, in a grotesque display of political power. There is little chance they would stop at Trump, and by going after his lawyers are already establishing the precedent that other Republicans will be targeted merely for helping not just Trump, but anyone Republican they don't like. 

Trump may refuse to surrender himself, but even this could be worse, showing Trump is somehow derelict and violating the law and be used as an attempt to go after him in congress or federal and prevent him from running for the presidency, even though it's a state law and should not apply federally to him in another state, they will try to go after him anyways. There is a chance that federal troops will be sent in to states to try and capture Trump, and a chance there will be people fighting back. This could be the start of some kind of civil war and the degredation of our entire political system, itself. What happens when a showdown between state police or civilians stand off with the federal police? Or when Georgia state police attack Floridian one's? They're looking, the left is looking for an excuse to cause this. With how many cities burned down due to left-wing militia groups, and how many people have been killed but prosecutors dropped the cases, how easy it would be to get people to fight in Georgia? You may even see angry Trump supporters get arrested or do crimes in anger or out of desperation, resulting in a crack down on them for their naturally angry reactions to Trump's arrest, despite them ignoring the left wing violence entirely. Or perhaps sacrificing these left-wing actors if push come to shove. 

So what are the charges people are charged with? The majority of them are Trump's lawyers, in a claim they are part of a conspiracy not only for being lawyers, but providing any legal advice to him at all. These individuals are directly named in a RICO case that presumes that "trying to overturn the 2020 election" is somehow itself a crime. Numerous challenges and allegation of fraud and cheating have occurred in this country, be with Al Gore vs. Bush, democrats against Trump in 2016 by claiming Russia hacked the election, or Stacey Abrams in Georgia itself. None of this had criminal charges brought against them, nor can they as it is not illegal to merely have a different opinion. Even more insane than that, people who merely gave Trump legal advice are being indicted, which is not itself a crime and never was. Jenna Ellis was indicted simply for being Trump's lawyer, with little to no actual accusations brought forward. Giuliani is being charged simply for having given Trump legal advice, while Mark Meadows wasn't even a Trump attorney and was just a member of his administration. However virtually all of the lawyers defending him have a first amendment right to provide legal advice, and none of this is a crime in any sensible way. The RICO charge presupposes guilt and a crime and therefore criminals other, otherwise non criminal acts, which itself is already dubious.  The theory of the indictment is that the speech of the president and the falsehoods of the president were part of a general effort to "steal" the election. This in and of itself makes absolutely no sense, but nonetheless freedom of speech does not stop being legal. 

Because a case of this type has never been tried, it would be easy to dismiss it solely on these grounds, but it's also difficult to have case precedence that would get it automatically dismissed. Obviously something like this is not even a crime, so it becomes impossible to defend against. How does one prove they are innocent of things which are not even crimes, by being the lawyer to someone who challenged the 2020 election, and couldn't this make nearly half the country criminals? Would it even matter? The best way to solve this is a supreme court intervention, however by it being explicitly state charges, although trying to do federal charges, it makes it much more difficult to stop simply by being so absurd. If Trump simply resists, it may make him an actual criminal, but if he doesn't they will be able to use the case against him and hang it over his head his entire election. It's unbelievable and horrific that this may be the clearest sign of political weaponization we have ever seen.