This Week: The Number of Criminal Charges Against Trump Hits 91,
While Legal Problems For His Co-Conspirators Mount
This week, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted former President Donald Trump for allegedly leading a vast multistate criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 presidential election under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws that were designed to take down the Mafia and other organized crime organizations. The indictment alleges that Trump and his co-conspirators illegally tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election in seven states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
In the federal case against Trump for allegedly leading a failed coup attempt after losing the 2020 presidential election, the prosecutor proposed starting the trial in January, and the judge ordered Trump not to air “evidence deemed sensitive.”
In the criminal case in New York against Trump for allegedly “falsifying business records linked to a hush money payment” to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged tryst, Trump asked the judge to recuse himself, but the judge denied the request.
In the above mentioned three criminal cases combined with the criminal case stemming from whether Trump obstructed justice and willfully retained national security secrets at Mar-a-Lago, Trump is facing 91 criminal counts.
In Arizona, the criminal investigation into fake electors continues, while in the Michigan case against 16 “so-called fake electors” for signing documents falsely claiming that Trump won the 2020 election in the state, the final nine of the 16 fake electors to be arraigned pleaded not guilty. All 16 fake electors have now pleaded not guilty.
In Wisconsin, a judge is allowing a civil lawsuit against ten fake electors to proceed. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and to disqualify the fake electors from serving as electors in the future.
In Michigan, a federal appeals court “refused to reconsider” sanctions against Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for filing “baseless” and “frivolous” allegations of “massive election fraud” in the 2020 presidential election.
In Wisconsin, MAGA supporters filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit in support of a ban on drop boxes. The drop box ban was imposed by MAGA supporters after Trump criticized the use of them in 2020.
In North Carolina, MAGA supporters in the state Senate passed legislation to make same day voter registration more onerous and to make it more difficult to cast an absentee ballot.
In Nevada, “an election-fraud crusader” dropped a federal lawsuit after Washoe County “threatened to seek sanctions for filing a baseless complaint” full of “‘rantings of a conspiracy theorist.’” After dropping the federal lawsuit, the MAGA supporter filed a similar lawsuit in state court.
