Arizona grand jury indicts 11 Republicans who falsely declared Trump won the state in 2020
Arizona grand jury indicts 11 Republicans who falsely declared Trump won the state in 2020
Eleven Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election have been charged with conspiracy, fraud and forgery.
They literally filmed themselves doing it. Then posted it to social media.
Visual representation of what the DAs office is going to do.
And the reason this took four years is????
Merrick GarlandOk so apparently I was wrong! The previous AD for Arizona Mark Brnovich shelved it (by which I mean threw in the trash the recommendation from his officers to bring together a grand jury) until he got booted from office by 281 votes.
So if you really think that your vote doesn't matter, you are incredibly mistaken.
I think the attorney general wasn't appointed right away or something, but it still took quite a while.
Why is trump an unindicted co-conspirator? Seems like if they have enough to charge those people why not him too?
Maybe getting them to plea bargain to turn on Trump is the plan.
It doesn’t say. There are state suits in Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and now Arizona. He’s indicted in Georgia, so it’s probably pretty likely that he’s unindicted in at least some of them, leaving potential for future prosecution.
I'm pretty sure that Michigan also has Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
I'm not a lawyer or a law expert, so this is purely a guess. By having him unindicted, it means he can't be found not-guilty right now due to lack of evidence. I think that leaves him open to being indicted later once everyone else gets convicted. If AZ and the 4 other states convict the co-conspirators with Trump as unindicted (except in Georgia where he is indicted), that creates a much stronger case to bring up full indictment charges.
Also allows the application of leverage on them after conviction to become cooperators, I'd think. Make the offer after conviction but before sentencing and then recommend leniency to the judge in light of promised cooperation.
He's listed as an unindicted co conspirator. The reason for not indicting him can come down to local laws. The law in Georgia on conspiracy has a lower bar, which is why he got charged there.
Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani are among those indicted in the Arizona election interference case.
Oh Rudy. In the words of Ordell Robbie:
“The fuck happened to you man? Your ass use’ta be beautiful.”
Giuliani was always a piece of shit. He just got some good press over 9/11
You have no idea man. In the ‘80s, NY was a mess. Every mom and pop and bodega was paying protection money. The mob ran the streets. Rudy took the mob down with RICO laws and changed the face of the city in a decade. I was there. It was transformative. Any New Yorker would’ve trusted him to babysit their kids back then.
Ironically, he’s now under RICO charges in Georgia. The guy hitched his wagon to Trump’s and went off the deep end. I wouldn’t trust him walking my neighbor’s dog today, and that thing never shuts up.
Remember what they say though: a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. I'll be interested to hear a more thorough analysis of the charges. Sadly, this stuff is rarely as simple as it seems.