Donald Trump has four criminal charges, but there is one in which he is accused of trying to change 2020 election result in the state of Georgia, which really makes it harder for a former US (EU) president to escape from prison.
This last accusation was made almost at midnight on Monday, and is not only the easiest to prove, but also wouldn’t let him pardon himself from returning to power after the 2024 election, in which he seeks to become the Republican presidential candidate against Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump has already been charged in Washington, D.C. for trying to overturn the 2020 election results; in Florida for illegally stealing and keeping secret documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion that he took from the White House at the end of his term, and in New York for allegedly bribing porn actress Stormy Daniels for a purchase during the 2016 election. campaign his silence about his “cause”.
In the state of New York, only the governor, now a Democrat, could pardon him, and in Georgia such an option is impossible.
new allegations ’cause more concern’ because “they are fully involved in what the people working for him have done to undermine and reverse the results of Georgia, which were very important for the outcome” of the presidential election, he says. EFE Grant Richer, director of the Campbell Institute for Public Affairs and professor of political science at Syracuse University.
Trump lost in Georgia to Biden by less than 12,000 votes. A call he made in January 2021 to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to pressure him to “find” enough votes to overturn the election results, which the official declined, led to an investigation that turned him into taking him to court.
The 13 charges he received in Georgia include violating the state’s racketeering law and conspiring to impersonate an official and provide forged documents. With him Charges were filed against 18 other individuals, including his former personal lawyer. and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
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conspiracy charge, According to EFE, Susan Lowe Bloch, Georgetown University Law Center professor and expert in constitutional law, “commonly used for the mafia” and “accusing the former president of acting like a mafia ringleader.” It’s pretty amazing and shocking.”
The so-called Corrupt and Ransomware Influenced Organizations (RICO) Act used in this case allowed mob bosses such as John Gotti in the past to be convicted, preventing these bosses from escaping justice without committing the crimes that were supposedly ordered . others.
If Trump had been convicted in Florida and Washington before the 2024 election and won those elections could try to pardon himself, And if those federal trials weren’t already closed, he could maneuver his Justice Department to dismiss them, but that right doesn’t apply in the case of Georgia, which is a state.
“I would not have been able to close this investigation or court. AND couldn’t be forgiven.” highlights EFE Mark S. Smith, professor of political science and constitutional law at the University of Cedarville (Ohio).
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In Georgia, in his opinion, the accusations “really bring together everything that happened around the 2020 elections”: he accused of “leading a movement with criminal intent.”and it was a big and difficult step.”
Trump could receive up to 20 years in prison in the latter case. “It is possible that he will end up in prison and become the President of the United States. It’s certainly shocking and embarrassing, but it’s possible,” emphasizes Smith.
Georgiait would also be the only trial that could be televised. “If it becomes a daily soap opera on some channels and major media outlets, it could be a turning point” in its popularity, Riecher adds.
But, according to the Syracuse University professor, “The average citizen is left alone with the fact that the former president was repeatedly charged. By this point, there were already so many accusations, with so many different accusations, that most lost count and put them all in the same category, that they were in trouble with the law.
His popularity was undermined after previous accusations, with a drop to three percentage points two weeks after they occurred, but he remains the Republican favorite nominee, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average.
“Most of the Republican elite have come to the conclusion that they need Trump to survive, and no matter what they think of him personally, they have decided that they need him and his voters to be a viable party. And then they don’t want to openly criticize him or insult his constituents,” says Smith.
For now, this latest accusation does not appease the former president, who considers himself the victim of a witch hunt. Trump said on Tuesday he was confident he would be exonerated. and next Monday, he will present at a press conference a “detailed but compelling account of electoral fraud” that he continues to claim took place in Georgia.