Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested a special grand jury in her election interference investigation into ex-President Donald Trump on Thursday.
["The prosecutor told Brasher that she needed help with her probe from a special grand jury because a ’significant number of witnesses and prospective witnesses have refused to cooperate with the investigation absent a subpoena requiring their testimony.' "]
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“significant number of witnesses and prospective witnesses have refused to cooperate with the investigation absent a subpoena requiring their testimony.”
It’s only because repubs are so committed to the rule of law, or perhaps it’s because they feel they’re above the rule of law.
Alternatively, perhaps those prospective witnesses have been threatened by trumpers who could give a shit about the stinkin’ law.
Good, witnesses that refuse to cooperate should be forced to, especially on a subject like this. Interference with our elections has to be knocked down hard, otherwise we won’t have fair ones anymore. It’s too bad Manchin and Sinema didn’t understand that yesterday.
GA is one of those weird states where the governor doesn’t have the power to pardon. There’s a board that handles pardons and here are the eligibility requirements:
You were convicted of a felony offense in Georgia;
You completed all sentences at least five (5) years before applying (this means that you have been off parole or probation for five years);
You have lived a law-abiding life in the last five (5) years;
Maybe not. Trump has belittled and insulted Gov. Kemp since he refused to overturn the election. He might enjoy watching Trump twist in the wind, at least, for awhile. I wonder if an indictment and conviction open him up to Federal election tampering charges as he made his calls from the White House. Those newly released phone logs will be very interesting.
You know if he is made to pay legally for his crime of election tampering that would go a long long way to preventing others hoping to get on that bandwagon for fear of prosecution, even with new voting rights laws.
The entirety of Trump’s instincts are either criminal, unethical, illegal, immoral, amoral, selfish, arrogant, or any or all of these. He is a waste of a human being, and I am being understated.
That really goes against Chump’s grain, more than anything.
The other conditions are difficult, but paying his bills is something he has never managed to do…unless he can use YOUR money.