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Donald Trump: rapist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-…

 

Helpful to have this clarification (that we all knew was true and probably has been for 50 years).

NB in the future on all rof posts referring to him, he is to be known as "Convicted Rapist Donald Trump"

NBB yes, convicted

The Convicted Rapist Donald Trump case has been assigned to US district judge Tanya S Chutkan, according to the court docket.

Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is the only federal judge in Washington who has sentenced January 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested, according to NBC.

The Georgia Indictment

A quick summary

MATT TAIT

15 AUG 2023

The indictment is here. The defendants, including Trump, have until August 25 to surrender for arraignment.

There’s a number of different people getting charged for various sub-schemes within the overall attempt by Trump and his coconspirators to corruptly overturn the Georgia election for President in 2020, so I’ll take them as a few different sections.

Trump’s charges

Trump gets 13 charges in this document. Here’s what they are:

1. Violation of the Georgia RICO Act(count 1)

This is basically an umbrella charge that covers the whole corrupt scheme. Everyone charged in this indictment is also charged with this offense.

2. Solicitation of violation of Oath by a public officer (count 5) 

This charge is for pressuring the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to call for a special session to appoint false electors on December 7, 2020.

3. Conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer (count 9) 

This is for causing various individuals to falsely represent themselves as presidential electors with the intent to misdirect the January 6 count.

4. Conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree (count 11) 

This is for the document "Certificate of the votes of the 2020 electors from Georgia" to be sent to the Senate

5. Conspiracy to commit false statements and writings (count 13) 

Same document, but specifically for the knowing false phrase "we the undersigned, being the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Georgia, do herby certify the following"

6. Conspiracy to commit filing false documents (count 15)

Conspiring to file that false certification with the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Georgia (as required by the certification process), which is the overt act required for that charge.

7. Conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree (count 17) 

For the commissioning and creation of a document titled "RE: Notice of Filling of Electoral College Vacancy", to be submitted to the electoral count process, to falsely claim and co-opt the authority of the elected presidential electors

8. Conspiracy to commit false statements and writings (count 19) 

Same document, but for the false statements about who two of the participants were specifically, as overt acts of the offense.

9. Filing false documents (count 27) 

The creation of a document titled "Verified complaint for emergency injunctive and declaratory relief" filed in Trump v Kemp, containing multiple knowingly-untrue statements, including: 

  • "as many as 2506 felons with uncompleted sentences voted"

  • "at least 66,247 underage people voted”.

  • “as many as 10,315 or more dead people voted”

10. Solicitation of violation of oath by public officer (count 28) 

Pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (specifically, the Trump phone call asking him to find votes)

11. False statements and writings (count 29) 

Various knowingly false statements made to Raffensperger and his staff during those calls

12. Solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer (count 38) 

Pressuring Raffensperger on 17 Sept 2021 (no, really, 2021) to "decertify the Election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is, and announce the true winner"

13. False statements and writings (count 39) 

Making the false statement to Raffensperger on 17 Sept 2021 (long after Biden was inaugurated): "As stated to you previously, the number of false and/or irregular votes is far greater than needed to change the Georgia election result"

Who else was charged?

Let’s break this down by group. (Some names appear in multiple groups):

The Core Conspirators:

  • Rudy Giuliani (lawyer)

  • John Eastman (lawyer)

  • Ray Smith III (lawyer)

  • Kenneth Chesebro (lawyer)

  • Jenna Ellis (lawyer)

  • Robert Cheeley (lawyer)

  • Sidney Powell (lawyer)

The DOJ letter:

  • Jeffrey Clark (ex-assistant attorney general)

The Fake Elector schemers:

  • Michael Roman (GOP strategist)

  • David Shafer (GA Republican Party Chair)

  • Shawn Still (Georgia State Senator)

  • Cathleen Latham (former Coffee County GOP chairwoman)

The Raffensperger call:

  • Mark Meadows (Former White House Chief of Staff)

Attempts to corruptly influence Ruby Freeman:

  • Stephen Lee (Illinois pastor)

  • Harrison Floyd (“Black Voices for Trump” leader)

  • Trevian Kutti (publicist)

Stealing the ballot machines from Coffee County:

  • Sidney Powell (lawyer)

  • Cathleen Latham (former Coffee County GOP chairwoman)

  • Scott Graham Hall (bail bondsman)

  • Misty Hampton (former Coffee County elections supervisor)

The Main Events

The first charge is under Georgia’s RICO law, which acts an umbrella charge for the whole scheme. Everyone is charged with it, and it details everything. But the other charges break down by law, rather than by event, and apply only to subsets of the alleged conspirators per charge, so let's regroup them to make them a bit more understandable:

1.False testimony to the Georgia Senate (counts 2-4)

This was at the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee on 3 Dec 2020. This intended to influence the proceeding (count 2), and was attended by Rudy Guiliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith III. Giuliani made false claims about mail-in ballot fraud and Dominion Voting Systems (count 3). Ray Smith III made false statements about how many felons, underage people, unregistered voters, and dead people voted in the election (count 4).

2.Pressuring the Georgia Speaker of the House to call for a special session to appoint presidential electors (counts 5)

Only Trump is charged with this, though Giuliani also made a similar call.

3.False testimony to the Georgia House (counts 6-7)

There was also hearing at the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee (charge 6), where Giuliani made false claims that Fulton County election workers were stealing votes and passing around USB sticks (count 7)

4.The False Electors (counts 8-19)

David Shafer, Shawn Still, and Cathleen Latham are all indicted for their role in being false electors. Michael Roman, a political consultant, is also indicted for his role in it.

The false electors represented themselves as real electors (count 8) and created a false election certificate (count 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) to send to be counted at the January 6 tabulation in the U.S. Senate (count 14, 15), as well as a document titled “RE: Notice of Filling of Electoral College Vacancy“ (count 16, 17, 18, 19)

5.The attempt to influence Ruby Freeman’s testimony (counts 20-21, counts 30-31)

Ruby Freeman, an election worker, and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss were substantially harassed through lies spread by Donald Trump and his associates. This harassment originated with false social media claims that Freeman had stayed to count ballots on election night after observers had left, identifying Freeman. The claims were investigated by Georgia and found to be unsubstantiated.

Stephen Lee tried to influence Ruby’s witness testimony (count 20, 21). Later, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, and Trevian Kutti tried again (count 30, 31)

6.The (unsent) DOJ letter claiming fraud in the Georgia election (count 22)

Between 28 Dec 2020 and 2 Jan 2021, Jeffrey Clark wrote a letter saying DOJ had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia“. He sent this to then acting-attorney general Jeffrey Rosen (count 22), who did not allow it to be published.

7.False Testimony to the Georgia Senate (counts 23-26)

Another hearing on 30 Dec, attended by Rudy Guiliani, Ray Smith III, and Robert Cheeley (count 23). Guiliani said false things about how many felons and dead people voted (count 24). Ray Smith said false things about how many people had voted illegally (count 25). Robert Cheeley said false things about ballots being multiple-counted, and poll workers leaving because of a watermain break at the State Farm Arena (count 26).

8.False statements in Trump v Kemp (count 27)

During the Trump v Kemp lawsuit, Eastman wrote a document titled “Verified Complaint for Emergency Injunctive and Declaratory Relief” alleging major fraud in the Georgia election. It contained a lot of false statements (count 27)

9.The Raffensperger call (counts 28-29)

In a call on Jan 2, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ask him to “find” 11,780 votes (count 28). The audio was later leaked. This charge is the only charge (other than the RICO charge) that applies to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Trump made lots of false statements on the call (count 29).

10.The ballot machine theft from Coffee County (counts 32-37)

Sidney Powell commissioned and paid for SullivanStrickler LLC to travel to Coffee County for the purpose of tampering with the ballot machines. When they got there, Cathleen Latham (Coffee County GOP chairwoman), Scott Hall (bail bondsman), and Misty Hampton (elections supervisor) aided and abetted that effort (count 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37).

11.Hoping to rollback the election long after Biden was inaugurated (counts 38)

On 17th September 2021, Trump falsely told Raffensperger that the number of irregular votes was enough to change the result (count 39) and that he should “decertify the Election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is, and announce the true winner“ (count 38).

12.Perjury during investigation of the false electors

The District Attorney interviewed at least two of the false electors. David Shafer made false statements during his interview in April 2022 (count 40). Robert Cheeley made false statements during his interview in September 2022 (count 41).

We already saw how the justice system held up relatively well in the Trump years, despite his attempts to weaponise it.  I wouldn't have thought someone like pudding fingers would have more joy.

don’t b absurd, he definitely is not “only benefiting”

he might b able 2 take advantage of some aspects and twist those 2 his benefit. it may even, if he’s v lucky, end up overall beneficial

but 2 pretend this only benefits him is just silly. it’s a total pita 4 him. and if he slips up on twisting it, even just a little, it’s curtains

The deep state is excelling itself. The various sets of charges just happened to unfold in reverse order of severity but will lead to trial with the biggest ones first. His ability to fund raise off his base’s outrage will ebb just as he needs cash most. He will be mired in trials right thru the campaign season. Contempt rules severely curtail what he can say, and will bite. His own racist contempt for Fani Willis et al should get out the black vote for the Dems they need badly. The cumulative effect of all the criming trials will peel away the soft 15% from him towards to the shining beacon on the hill of the Biden administration.

@andrewfeinberg

NEW: If I am reading this right, Judge Engoron has found that Donald Trump committed fraud and has ordered the cancellation of all of his New York business certificates and the dissolution of the Trump Organization.

 

Can we really call him a convicted rapist? He was found liable in a civil action and it is not defamatory to call him a rapist, but he hasn't been convicted of any crime, has he?

Pedantry perhaps, but he is really an unconvicted rapist, isn't he?

Point of order it’s a civil suit WTF

But the order cancels the reg of Trump Org LLCs etc

Keep your Piston handy - it’s almost as if the deep state is into orchestration. 

Former lawyer for then-president Donald Trump Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case in Fulton county, just days before jury selection for her trial was scheduled to start.

The plea agreement has Powell paying a $6,000 fine and $2,700 restitution to the state of Georgia as well as writing an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia, testifying at trial, and serving six years of probation

 

The walls are closing in, Donald... 

How long before trump claims 

1. I barely knew the guy

2. He was just a coffee boy

3. I only met him once

4. Many people are saying "insert random bullsh*t"

5. Meadows is a RINO

 

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