Trump's Troubles

Bad day for ketchup at ML.

Georgia heating up and a May trial date on the Florida case. Racketeering charges has to have a lot of old Georgia money worried. Think Sideny Powell will sing as the computer trespass charge seems like a slam dunk. Organized by a group with someone in charge to take confidential data and disseminate it. That happened.

“Series of crimes”: Georgia DA reportedly has evidence to bring “sprawling” racketeering indictment (msn.com)

Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis has amassed enough evidence in the investigation of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to charge a "sprawling racketeering indictment" next month, according to The Guardian. Willis previously said she was considering racketeering charges but the report adds new details about the scope of the charges prosecutors are expected to seek early next month.

Georgia's racketeering statute requires prosecutors to show the existence of an "enterprise" and a pattern of racketeering activity predicated on at least two "qualifying" crimes," The Guardian's Hugo Lowell explained. In the Trump probe, Willis has evidence to pursue a racketeering indictment predicated on statutes related to influencing witnesses and computer trespass, two sources briefed on the matter told the outlet. The state's racketeering statute is more expansive than the federal one because "any attempts to solicit or coerce the qualifying crimes can be included as predicate acts of racketeering activity, even when those crimes cannot be indicted separately," Lowell explained.
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The computer trespass charge, where prosecutors would have to show that defendants improperly used a computer or network to interfere with a program or data, could include a breach of voting machines in Coffee County, the two sources told The Guardian. A group of Trump operatives funded by former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell accessed the county's voting machines and copied sensitive data. The data from the Dominion Voting System machines was then uploaded to a site that allowed election deniers to download the materials in an effort to prove Trump's debunked election fraud conspiracy theories.
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Texts obtained by CNN showed that operatives hired by Powell also sought to use the data to try to decertify other statewide elections. Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin told CNN in April that the texts suggest violations of multiple state and federal laws.

"What we have here is unauthorized access to this privileged computer data," Zeldin said at the time. "There is a conspiracy to acquire and improperly distribute that data. There is probably a crime of interfering with the rights of the people of Georgia to have a free and fair election. And this is a series of crimes, a pattern of criminal activity, then it could possibly violate the Georgia RICO statute, which criminalizes a series of criminal activities by the same person or group of persons, so there's a lot at stake here." He added that the texts may be even "more damning" than Trump's call to Raffensperger.

 

damn attorneys are expensive. can you imagine all the legal bills and just jet time flying to and from all the trials that are pending
NY, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, DC




Trump prosecutions consume campaign funds and messaging as charges mount (msn.com)

To illustrate how Trump’s criminal defense is swallowing his campaign, just over half of the money he raised last quarter went not to the campaign itself but to an affiliated PAC that is footing the legal bills. Of more than $35 million raised between March and June, the campaign received $17.7 million, according to the latest report to the Federal Election Commission. The rest went to the Save America PAC, which will report its latest finances on July 31 but has been spending millions on lawyers representing Trump and allies in the multiple ongoing cases, according to FEC disclosures.

“A lot of money is going to legal and people who don’t do much, and not a lot is left over to do marketing and advertising,” said one Trump adviser, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans. “A lot of the money we’re raising is just going to legal.”

 

former overstock CE says he has kompromat on Jack Smith. This could be AI generated and fed to someone or my bet it is a bluff. is this a chargeable offense to threaten the prosecutor?

Trump-loving ex-CEO claims to have 'naughty' evidence against Jack Smith (msn.com)

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne claims to have material that could be used against special counsel Jack Smith.

The right-wing former tech mogul responded to Donald Trump's revelation that he had received a target letter in the Jan. 6 investigation by suggesting he had damning video involving Smith, who has twice served posts to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, reported Newsweek.

"It might also come down to what I have on Jack Smith," Byrne tweeted. "On a previous stop on his journey, Jack was a very naughty boy. And was videotaped in his naughtiness. He doesn't know that yet. But I suppose he does now."