THE BULWARK on the Georgia Indictment

From Will Saletan's 8-16-23 THE BULWARK article entitled "What’s Actually New in the Georgia Indictment?":

THIS WEEK’S INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP and 18 alleged co-conspirators, handed down by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, asserts that “Trump and the other Defendants . . . knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome” of the 2020 election. But many of the acts detailed in the indictment, such as tweets and testimony at hearings, were out in the open. Trump and his collaborators will say—in fact, they’re already saying—that they genuinely believed the election had been stolen, and they were just trying to correct that injustice.

What’s the evidence that these people knowingly and willfully participated in a conspiracy, as opposed to a legitimate effort to contest the election results?

The Georgia indictment enumerates many acts that demonstrate the defendants’ deceit or awareness of illegality. Some of these acts were mentioned in the federal indictment of Trump released on Aug. 1. But others are new. Here’s a guide to some of these key allegations in the Fulton County indictment [...].

The indictment also describes many other acts as part of the alleged conspiracy. But these are the most difficult ones to explain. Honest people don’t rehearse claims of fraud before it happens. They don’t file allegations they know are false. They don’t misrepresent statements they directly witnessed. They don’t scheme to bypass courts and legislative hearings to seize power. They don’t try to hide what they’re doing, and they don’t lie about it afterward.

Trump and his accomplices did all these things. Their campaign to overturn the election wasn’t just deluded. It was corrupt.

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