These latest charges are especially potent and could kill Trump’s political career. They are among the most serious and rely on the strongest of the evidence. . . . They will be the only ones televised. Trump, in a dock, will seem an inevitably diminished figure, with all his swagger stripped away – equal before the law. Swing voters (the ones that matter, not the fanatical “base”) will be forced to ask themselves if they want this man in the White House for the next four years.
The focus for the Georgian proceedings isn’t January 6, but January 2 – and the conference telephone call the White House placed with the secretary of state for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, with Trump and Meadows plus miscellaneous lawyers.
It’s quite famous, and probably the most portentous presidential phone call in history. . . . Indeed, this fateful Trump call has a Nixonian, Watergate aspect to it, because it was taped. It establishes without any room for doubt what passed between the principals concerned. It is not “he said/she said”, where a smart defence lawyer can create the reasonable doubt needed to secure an acquittal.
No. Trump is banged to rights – condemned by his own big mouth. There is no wriggle room. He’s straightforwardly grubbing for bogus votes (the 11,779 he lost by, to be precise) and making up stuff about Georgia officials shredding ballot papers, dodgy election machines and mysterious scenes in the counting halls. All proved baseless.
– Sean O’Grady
Excerpted from “How ‘Gangster’ Trump Could Be Destroyed
by One Explosive Phone Call”
The Independent
August 15, 2023
Excerpted from “How ‘Gangster’ Trump Could Be Destroyed
by One Explosive Phone Call”
The Independent
August 15, 2023
About Donald Trump’s Indictments
Related Off-site Links:
“Criminal Enterprise”: Trump and 18 Co-Conspirators Indicted in Georgia Election Case – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, August 15, 2023).
How the Georgia Indictment Against Donald Trump May Be the Biggest Yet – Nicholas Riccardi and Meg Kinnard (AP News, August 15, 2023).
LaTosha Brown: Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is “Step Forward” in Defending Democracy – Democracy Now! (August 15, 2023).
What Will Happen With the Fourth Indictment? – Robert Reich (Truthdig, August 15, 2023).
UPDATES: “Biased.” “Corrupt.” “Deranged.” Trump’s Taunts Test Limits of Release – Maggie Haberman (The New York Times via Yahoo! News, August 16, 2023).
Trump Attorneys Mocked for Requesting 2026 Date for January 6 Trial – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, August 18, 2023).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Donald Trump’s Open and Shameless Criminality
• Something to Think About – August 4, 2023
• Marianne Williamson on Trump’s Day in Court
• Jessica Roth: Quote of the Day – August 1, 2023
• Why Trump’s Classified Documents Case Is Unique
• Rahna Epting: Quote of the Day – June 9, 2023
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• It’s Not Just Trump: Ralph Nader on the “Lawlessness” of Other U.S. Presidents
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Historian Nancy MacLean: The Threat to American Democracy Is at “Red-Alert”
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2022
• “How Can One Overreact to a Mortal Threat to American Democracy?”
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking Democracy
• “The Coup Attempt on Jan. 6th Was a Warning for What’s to Come If We Don’t Act”
• “My Biggest Worry Is for My Country”
• Republicans Pose an “Existential Threat” to American Democracy
• The Big Switch
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• David Remnick: Quote of the Day – February 13, 2021
• Dan Rather on America’s “Moment of Reckoning”
• Michael Harriot: Quote of the Day – January 6, 2021
• Insurrection at the United States Capitol
• Fascism Is Upon Us
• Saying “No” to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda
• Trump’s Playbook
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