Leak exposes potential counts of Trump indictment in Fulton County, Georgia

In the US, there are currently several law enforcement efforts under way seeking to indict and prosecute ex-President Donald Trump. The person in charge of one of those initiatives is Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis.

She had started a grand jury investigation into alleged election tampering by Trump accusing him of interfering with the 2020 Presidential Election which he ad officially lost. Trump had alleged election fraud, or inaccurate count, in Fulton County robbing him of some 11,000 votes which would have swayed the results in the state of Georgia in his favor. According to Willis, Trump applied undue pressure on the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state officials and effectively blackmailed them into "finding" votes for him that did not exist. Now whether that is true or not is open to discussion but it is indeed a fact that Mr Raffensperger himself believes there were indeed "irregularities", including several hundreds votes counted twice. Raffenberger is on record calling for firing of election officials he had believed to be responsible for that error. Note that several hundreds constitutes several percentage points of 11,000 and with the election being that close (the county has a population of only about a million people, hence 11,000 is likely about 2% of the eligible voter pool) Trump's allegation does not seem to be all that outlandish. And yes, when the election was won by only 0.23% it is hardly unreasonable to question the results, especially given that episodes of incorrect counts had indeed been discovered.

So naturally you have every right to be skeptical about either side's opinion. But does it questioning the results of this election insanity or criminality? Ms Willis believed so and launched a criminal probe. Recently, due to alleged clerical error, a draft of the grand jury indictment was uploaded to a public website belonging to the Fulton County's court system. And it turned out that it contained some rather curious counts.

Among other things, Trump was charged with the following:

• Encouraging his followers to watch One America Network (OAN), a public media outlet.

• Encouraging a grassroots campaign in Georgia by means of the following tweet:

“Georgia Patriot Call to Action: today is the day we need you to call your state Senate & House Reps & ask them to sign the petition for a special session. We must have free & fair elections in GA & a this is our only path to ensuring every legal vote is counted @realDonald Trump.”

• Seeking signature verification on ballots.

Reports listed below list a longer list of similarly questionable indictment counts.

I grew up the in the Soviet Union. In that country, you could get in trouble for owning illegal literature or listening to banned radio stations. In today's US you can be indicted for recommending a news source of your liking to your audience. I am not sure if I am not back in the USSR.

I am going to claim that Trump has not broken any law while disputing the election results in Fulton County, or in the State of Georgia in general. But I will say that the presence of counts like those mentioned above is that the prosecution does not feel confident about its case at all, and likely does not have a case to speak of.

As always - do your own research, use your own brain, draw your own conclusions.

References

How Stupid Is The Georgia Anti-Trump Case? They Indicted Trump For Tweeting At People To Watch TV
Tristan Justice, The Federalist, 15 August 2023

Georgia court website posts, removes docket of potential Trump charges in 2020 election probe
Samuel Chamberlain and Ryan King, New York Post, 14 August 2023

Fani Willis (wiki)

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls for firing of Fulton County election officials
Kristine Phillips, USA Today, 15 July 2021

Brad Raffensperger (wiki)

Fulton County, Georgia (wiki)

2020 United States presidential election in Georgia (wiki)

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