Is Donald Trump getting indicted in Arizona too?
Why has Donald Trump been criminally indicted in some of the states where he tried the fake elector plot, but not others? For one thing, the laws are different in each state. Georgia’s state RICO laws made it a lot easier to indict Trump along with the fake electors, for instance, than the laws in other states.
But there’s also another factor: timeframes. Arizona had a Republican Attorney General in 2021 and 2022 who had no interest in pursuing Trump’s fake elector scheme in the state. But then Arizona elected a Democratic Attorney General who took office in 2023 and decided to do the job right. She’s brought indictments against numerous fake electors and numerous Trump lackeys, including Rudy Giuliani. The question was when or if Trump himself would be indicted in Arizona.
The way these kinds of cases often work is that you indict the lower level co-conspirators first, in an effort to get one or more of them to flip. Then you use that person’s insider testimony as the basis for indicting the crime boss, in this case Donald Trump.
Now Arizona’s Attorney General says that one of the indicted fake electors has decided to flip. She hasn’t said precisely whom the fake elector is flipping on. But if the AG has been waiting for someone to flip before indicting Trump, then here we are.
So while we still don’t know what will or won’t happen in Arizona, or when it will or won’t happen, we are now potentially on Trump indictment watch in Arizona. There’s no chance Trump would go to trial in Arizona before the election. But it would help cement that he’s going to prison if he loses this election. So let’s make sure he loses.
