Atlanta — has indicted Trump on charges that he and his allies tried to thwart the outcome of Georgia’s election. They cite a recorded Jan. 2, 2021,
phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump pressed him “to find 11,780 votes.”
Trump denies any wrongdoing,
saying that “this one-sided grand jury presentation relied on witnesses who harbor their own personal and political interests.” On this case, Trump and his allies
have apparently hit a real sore nerve. Mike Roman, a GOP opposition researcher swept up in the Willis indictment, alleged that Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Willis, improperly met with the Biden White House about the Trump case.
Roman also alleges that Wade has
no experience in the areas of law sur- rounding the indictment. So, with no relevant experience,
why did Willis choose Wade? Roman claims they were having an affair during which Willis paid her boy- friend over $650,000 in taxpayer money, some of which he used to pay for vacations. Willis has not denied the allega-
tions publicly. She has said she is a victim of racism and that she will for- mally respond in filings to the court. Many legal experts believe that
courts will force Willis to remove herself from the case and that its entire prosecutorial foundation could be eroded.
E. JEAN CARROLL DEFAMATION
In addition to the pending indict- ments, Trump’s legal woes include a case that has been resolved — but not in his favor. In January, a New York City jury
ordered Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of sexually assaulting her decades earlier. A jury ruled he must pay $18.3 mil-
The large jury award is unlikely to dent Trump’s popularity with many voters because, once again, he has been blessed by his enemies.
lion in compensatory damages for the statements, plus an additional $65 mil- lion in punitive damages meant to deter him from defaming her in the future. The accusations in the case are
seamy, involving Carroll’s claim that Trump assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room in the 1990s. But she never went public until three decades after the incident, and only after Trump became president. Carroll also never provided any physi- cal, forensic, or eyewitness evidence to support her claims. The large jury award is unlikely to
dent Trump’s popularity with many voters because, once again, he has been blessed by his enemies. After she won her windfall jury
award, Carroll laughingly told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that she planned to spend Trump’s money on a large dose of shopping therapy. “You and I are going to go shop-
ping!” she told Maddow. “We’re going to get completely new wardrobes! What do you want? A penthouse? It’s yours, Rachel!”
N.Y. CIVIL FRAUD New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, filed a $370 mil- lion civil lawsuit against Trump, his company, and his business associates — including his sons — in 2022 for alleged fraud, claiming Trump and his codefendants fraudulently misstated the value of their assets more than 200
times between 2011 and 2021. They did so in order to obtain
more favorable business deals, James alleged, and in order to reflect a higher net worth for Trump. Judge Arthur Engoron, who
Trump called “a political hack,” already found the former president and his codefendants liable for fraud before the trial began in October, but it moved forward on other allega- tions — such as whether the fraud was committed knowingly — and wrapped up closing arguments in January. Even the usually liberal Associat-
ed Press chimed in about the unfair- ness of the case after studying nearly 70 years of civil cases involving simi- lar matters. The AP found that “Trump’s
case stands apart in a significant way: It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses.”
VOTERS WILL DECIDE Trump’s voter base sees him as some- one targeted by the establishment that he has been fighting, and pilloried by flimsy evidence of criminal wrong- doing. Trump uses this argument to great effect at his rallies. “If this is what they do to me,” he
tells his supporters, “just think of what they’ll do to you.” This plays into the fears many
Americans have that progressives will use the law selectively to defeat anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their “woke” doctrines. Many ordinary Americans believe
they are only a wrong pronoun away from losing their jobs. Small busi- ness owners fear a surge in crime that began when Black Lives Matter start- ed its “defund the police” effort. For those voters, the actual facts of
the Trump indictments aren’t what counts. They believe Trump is break- ing the rules of a corrupt establish- ment and thumbing his nose at a dis- credited liberal media monopoly.
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