Looks like Donald Trump is going down for RICO after all
We’ve seen it reported numerous times this year that Fulton County DA Fani Willis was actively considering using RICO statutes to bring racketeering charges against Donald Trump and his co-conspirators. This was obviously always coming from Willis herself, and the fact that it kept getting printed meant that she was still leaning in that direction. But now we’re getting more or less de facto confirmation that she has indeed decided to bring RICO charges.
Willis has now tipped off multiple major news outlets this weekend that her case is based on a plot by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and a local official to illegally obtain voting machine software in nearby Coffee County, Georgia. This kind of electronic breach is a legal basis for bringing RICO charges, not only against the people specifically involved in the breach, but also against the people involved in the broader crime spree.
Based on what’s being reported, it appears Willis has connected the Giuliani-Powell plot in Coffee County to a draft executive order to seize those same Coffee County voting machines. Trump ultimately didn’t sign that executive order, but he did see it. This demonstrates that Trump was aware of the plot that Giuliani and Powell were carrying out, which makes him guilty of everything they were doing in furtherance of that plot.
Fani Willis has brought RICO cases before and made them stick. She knows what she’s doing on this front. The only question was whether she was going to ultimately conclude that there was enough in the Trump plot to make it work as a RICO case. Everything that’s coming out in the media this weekend – which could really only be coming from her – suggests that she has indeed decided she can make RICO stick. And so Donald Trump, one of the most notorious organized crime bosses of his generation, is apparently about to go down on charges that were specifically designed to take down organized crime.
