That Perfect Call 🌻 🌻 🌻

Finally: It turns out that Trump’s perfect Georgia phone call not to be confused with his perfect Zelensky call, wasn’t so perfect, in fact it turns out that it was a very revealing tip of a rather large iceberg so after months of hearing that Fulton County indictments were imminent, District Attorney Fani Willis has finally delivered bigly.  She even managed a surprise, delivering those indictments on Monday rather than on Tuesday, the day that they were expected. Late yesterday, after a long day hearing witness testimony, her grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law better known as RICO, alleging that they engaged in a pattern of illegal scheming to overturn the 2020 Georgia presidential election results.  Trump faces a total of 13 charges for a criminal racketeering scheme in which he pressured public officiers and conspired to commit forgery, create false statements and file false documents.  The indictment names 18 co-defendants and includes 13 counts against former Mayor current lunatic Rudy Giuliani, 9 against lawyer promoter of the theory that former VP Pence could reject the electoral count John Eastman, 2 against former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who many believe is cooperating with Special Counsel Jack Smith, 7 against architect of the fake elector scheme Kenneth Chesebro, 2 against ersatz Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, 2 against Rudy sidekick Jenna Ellis, 7 against campaign operative Mike Roman, and 7 against truly nuts kraken lawyer Sidney Powell.  The rest of the co-defendants are lesser known, at least to those outside of Georgia.  They include local politicians, as well as two odd characters who tried to pressure election worker Ruby Freeman, one half of the mother-daughter team whose lives Rudy ruined when he alleged that the ginger candy they shared was really a thumb drive filled with voting data.  Worth remembering, US presidents don’t have the power to  pardon for state crimes.  Moreover, Georgia is unusual in that its governor desn’t have pardon power.  In Georgia pardon power rests with an independent board which is limited to issuing pardons after some of a sentence is served.  Naturally, Trump who probably threw lots of ketchup yesterday attacked “racist” Fani Willis last night on Truth Social, calling her in ALL CAPS, “out to get Trump,” while accusing her of prosecutorial misconduct saying she was lenient on crime and “had allowed Atlanta to become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world.”  Following its usual practice, his campaign is already raising money off the charges and some of his favorite media pundits are calling for Georgia’s Republican legislature to pass a law giving Governor Kemp pardon power, power that Kemp probably is relieved he doesn’t have.  Trump’s lawyers are expected to try to move his case to Federal Court in the hopes of getting a “better” jury as in one not made up of Black Fulton County Democrats.  That strategy didn’t work in New York and probably won’t work here. And at least so far, Judge Chutkan who is overseeing the January 6 election interference case has not responded to Trump’s efforts at witness intimidation but it’s only Tuesday.  

More Broken Toys:  It looks like the cage fight between Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s (as in Twitter) Elon Musk is off, at least according to Zuckerberg.  That said, yesterday Musk who last week claimed that an hours long MRI revealed he needs some kind of shoulder surgery that would delay his participation, said that he was headed to Zuckerberg’s house to start fighting.   While world’s richest man Musk continues to act bizarrely, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos took some time out of his PDA with his fiancee to announce that he is donating $100 million to Maui, something a whole lot kinder than cage fighting that makes up for some of his ridiculous public canoodling. On the subject of fighting, the video of former White House doctor/right wing Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson acting belligerent,  fighting with and swearing at police at a Texas rodeo arena is now available for viewing. Jackson who’s been known to drink a lot, claims he was just trying to help a young woman who was having a seizure by giving her a gumdrop (!?) when police pulled him away to make room for arriving EMTs. The video appears to show that Ronny was both hostile and inebriated despite his claims otherwise.  Lastly, there’s Boris Epshteyn, the Trump advisor/lawyer who is believed to be unindicted co-conspirator in Special Jack’s January 6 election interference indictment.  Apparently Epshteyn shares some traits with his idol Trump.  No he’s not a billionaire or even a make believe one but he is an admitted sexual groper. In 2021 he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in Arizona after being charged with sexual abuse, assault-touching and “harass-repeated acts.”  He paid a fine and served probation.  Only the best for Donny.