In 2021, it’s basically a full-time job to keep up with the many lawsuits, civil investigations, and criminal investigations Donald Trump, which, if you can believe it, exceeds the number of times a human woman has consented to marry him. On the front lines of lawsuits, the ex-president faced more than two dozen in March, which ordinary people who haven’t been sued or sued thousands of times in their lives consider to be a lot. In civil matters, the New York attorney general is currently investigating whether the Trump Organization manipulated the value of its assets for loans and tax breaks and recently won a major court victory. Then of course there is the criminal investigation that Trump is likely to have on his mind as it could lead to a jail sentence. Obviously there’s the one headed by the Manhattan Attorney’s Office who has already filed numerous charges against Trump’s business and longtime CFO, with more charges awaited. In addition, he is under criminal investigation by the DC Attorney General for incitement to assault the Capitol while the Fulton County, Georgia attorney’s office examines his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. And according to legal experts, the latter can end very badly for him!
In a new 109-page report, DC’s think tank, the Brookings Institution, analyzed publicly available evidence used by Trump and his allies to pressure Georgia officials to “change the lawful outcome of the election,” and concluded that of the 45 crimes. Obviously, one of the least helpful things Trump has for him is his infamous call to the Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Jan 3rd when Trump told the guy to “find 11,780 votes” to overthrow him Joe Biden‘s victory in the state. “There was no way I lost Georgia,” Trump said several times during the call, although of course he did. “There is no way. We won with hundreds of thousands of votes.”
The report also notes that Trump has both publicly pressured and personally contacted a number of Republican officials in the state, including the attorney general Chris Carr and governor Brian Kemp, to get their help to declare him the winner. (The men disagreed with the conspiracy, which may explain why Trump pretended to support them Stacey Abrams for the governor of Georgia this weekend.) The report written by Norman Eisen, Joshua Matz, Donald Ayer, Gwen Keyes Fleming, Colby Galliher, Jason Harrow, and Raymond P. Tolentino, notes that then-President Carr and Kemp called Carr and Kemp in December to ask them to “follow his increasingly desperate plans to undo his loss.” The authors warn that criminal liability could extend to Trump’s allies, including Rudy Giuliani.
The authors believe that some of the allegations that Trump himself could be hit with include “criminal inducements to commit election fraud; deliberate impairment of the perception of voting obligations; Conspiracy to fraudulent elections; criminal advertising; and violations of the state’s RICO, “in addition to violating more than a dozen other Georgia state laws. “We conclude that Trump’s post-election behavior in Georgia puts him at significant risk of potential multi-crime state charges,” the report said.
Citing the fact that Trump would likely claim that everything he did was only part of his job as president, the report states, “Put simply, calling on high-ranking officials and then threatening to give up the result of a presidential election change is incomprehensible idea of the extent of the presidential power. ”
A spokesman for the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week that the investigation was “active and ongoing” but declined to provide details. Prosecutors reportedly appeared before a grand jury to seek summons for witnesses and documents; hired the state’s top experts on extortion and conspiracy law; interviewed at least four of Raffensperger’s closest advisers; and began coordinating with Congressmen to investigate events around January 6th.
Trump’s advisors responded to the Georgia investigation exactly as one would expect if one had paid attention over the past five years. “This is simply the latest attempt by the Democrats to gain political points by continuing their witch hunt against President Trump, and everyone sees it.” Jason Mueller said in a statement after the investigation opened in the spring.
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There is nothing to see here, only the governor of South Dakota seems to be abusing her position of power to get her daughter a real estate license
Since she refuses to do anything about COVID-19, Kristi Noem has a lot of time for such activities. According to the Associated Press:
Just days after a South Dakota agency turned down her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Governor Kristi Noem called the agency’s government official, the woman’s line manager, and the state labor secretary to her office. Noem’s daughter was there too. Kassidy Peters, then 26, finally got the certification in November 2020, four months after meeting at her mother’s office. A week later the Minister of Labor called the agency manager, Sherry Bren, demand their retirement, according to an age discrimination lawsuit Bren filed against the ministry. Bren, 70, finally quit her job last March after the state paid her $ 200,000 to withdraw the complaint.
According to the AP, Peters applied as a certified housing appraiser in September 2019, which would lead to a significant increase in earnings; In late July 2020, the Bren-led license refusal program was postponed, which reportedly occurs when “an applicant’s work samples fail to meet minimum national standards”. On July 26th, Bren received a text message asking her to be at the governor’s office the next morning to discuss “appraiser certification procedures”.
