We awake to a new landscape in America today. It is not, as Ronald Wilson Reagan said, "morning in America again". It is, as Winston Churchill said, "not the end, not the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning."
We are speaking about the second federal indictment of the 45th president of the United States for conspiracy to defraud the United States which was unsealed on Tuesday of this week.
Think about that last sentence and cringe that such a sentence could be written about a former president.
And then be proud that we live in a country where such a sentence could be written.
The indictment is a remarkable document. Words matter. When people in power lie with the intention to disenfranchise the American electorate, it is a crime.
Item: The defendant REPEATELDY and publicly stated 36,000 non-citizens voted in Arizona when both authorities in Arizona and his own election team investigated the claim and found it to be untrue. [Indictment, para. 19]. Having been told it was not true, the president continued to tell the American public it was true.
Item: After his chief of staff PERSONALLY witnessed the Georgia signature verification process for ballots and told the President that it was being done correctly, the President told the American public that the Georgia officials were "terrible people" trying to obstruct the signature verification process. [Indictment, para. 28].
Item: The defendant repeatedly told the American public that 5,000 dead people voted in Georgia after being repeatedly told by his own staff and the Georgia elections officials that the number was two. [Indictment para, 31c]. The defendant then attacked the Georgia officials and tweeted that the number of dead people who voted in Geogia was over 10,300. [Indictment, para. 33].
Item: After stating that more than 205,000 people had voted in Pennsylvania than were registered to vote, both officials from Pennsylvania and his own campaign told the defendant that number was not correct and the official vote tally was less than the number of registered voters. The defendant then publicly and continually made that claim and called the Pennsylvania officials "cowards". [Indictment, paras. 40-44]. The defendant then made the same claims about Wisconsin after being told the same thing. [Indictment, paras. 50-52].
WORDS MATTER. Read the indictment. What the former president and his cabal of co-conspirators did was unconscionable. We never thought we would say this, but God Bless the Prosecutors working on this case with the courage to bring this indictment.
Speaking of courage, when Rusty Bowers, the Speaker of the Arizona house, continually refused to say what the former president and his co-conspirators told him to say (that the election results in Arizona were based on fraud that affected the outcome) he was publicly attacked by the former president at the time he was president and lost a primary election. Bowers had told the former president and his coconspirators at the time that he would not "play with the oath" he had taken to uphold the Constitutions of Arizona and the United States, Bowers was subsequently the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profiles In Courage Award. An award that will never be mentioned in the same sentence as the defendant and his co-conspirators.
Speaking of co-conspirators, we think the following: EVERY unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment will be charged in a superseding indictment, and that includes Rudy Giuliani (CC#1), attorney John Eastman (CC#2), attorney Sydney (wack-adoodle) Powell (CC#3)and former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark (CC#4).
We live in a country where no one is above the rule of law. Make no mistake about this, this indictment is seismic shift in the prosecution of the former president. The indictment in the SDFL is a Hialeah traffic ticket in comparison to these charges. The former president will be found guilty and he should be sent to prison for the lives he ruined and what he tried to do.
If the indictment doesn't come up (we are experiencing technical difficulties, here is a link to the indictment in PDF format.)
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