Donald Trump Georgia Election Interference Case Moves Forward
The Donald Trump Georgia election interference case is finally moving forward after being delayed because of DA Fani Willis's affair with a special prosecutor from the case.
With that issue now dealt with, Trump once again tried to get the case thrown out. Meanwhile, prosecutors revealed that his supporters were impersonating government officials as part of the plot to overturn the state's election results.
Donald Wakeford, one of DA Fani Willis's prosecutors for the case, told Judge Scott McAfee that the former president was involved in criminal activity and lied about the election results despite repeatedly being told that he lost and could not legally reverse the results.
"It's not just that he lied over and over and over again. It is that each of those was employed as part of criminal activity with criminal intentions," the prosecutor said, adding that the former president also roped in some of his supporters in the plot.
He was talking about the fake elector scheme as Trump's supporters within the state's Republican Party impersonated electors for the candidate who won the state. As Newsweek pointed out, electors are considered public officials under Georgia law as they are the ones voting to select who won the state, and that was Joe Biden.
In the fake elector scheme, Trump and his allies put forward a slate of fake electors, mostly prominent state GOP officials, to vote for him in the electoral college and replace the official ones who were supposed to vote for the candidate who won the state.
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Donald Trump Argues Georgia Election Interference Case Was a Violation of His Free Speech Rights
The hearing happened on Thursday and was the first one for the Georgia election interference case since the Fani Willis affair hearings. It was brought about as Donald Trump tried to once again have the case thrown out, this time claiming it impeded his First Amendment rights as what he did was "political speech."
However, prosecutors pushed back hard and pointed out instances of Trump allies actively trying to interfere with the Georgia election and have the results go in his favor. They presented solid examples like the fake elector scheme.
"It's not just that they were false. It's not that the defendant has been hauled into a courtroom because the prosecution doesn't like what he said," Prosecutor Donald Wakeford countered. "What he is not allowed to do is to employ his speech and his expression and his statements as part of a criminal conspiracy to violate Georgia's RICO statute, to impersonate public officers, to file false documents, to make false statements to the government."
Still No Trial Date for Donald Trump Georgia Election Interference Case
Meanwhile, fears that the trial for the Georgia election interference case will be pushed back to after the 2024 elections just grew as the hearing ended with no trial date set yet.
However, as CNN pointed out, one of the former president's four criminal cases will finally begin trial next month, with the New York porn star hush money case set to begin on April 15 even after Donald Trump's attorneys tried their best to employ their infamous "Delay Delay Delay" tactic.
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Written by: Rick Martin
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