Unlike Smith, Willis can invoke laws that are specifically designed to deal with election-interference conduct of the kind Trump engaged in.
That is not to say she won’t make some heads turn. Particularly if, as expected, she indicts Trump under Georgia’s anti-racketeering law. …
Thus could Willis depict Trump and his campaign as the overarching racketeering enterprise, and allege that this group engaged in a variety of schemes all aimed at corruptly reversing the election outcome — from Trump’s efforts to pressure secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to invalidate ballots cast for Biden, to the so-called “fake electors” plot to substitute a slate of Trump electors for the slate of electors that cast the state’s electoral votes for Biden, consistent with the popular election result.
It sounds like ambitious charging, but it may not be all that much of a reach.
[This is a pretty good primer on what the expected indictment will attempt. We’ll see if it gets that far. I’d say that the classified-material indictment is by far the biggest legal risk for Trump at the moment, but it still has to be proven in court, too. — Ed]
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