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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, August 14, 2023

Jack and Fani Sitting In A Tree...

 There are rumors that Fani Willis has concrete evidence linking Trump's lawyers to a hack of the voting system in Coffee County, Georgia. In other words, she has firm evidence that Trump's legal team committed a felony related to trying to overturn the election. This isn't the bullshit "free speech" lie that Trumpists are peddling about Trump just "raising questions" about whether the election was fraudulent. This is a concrete criminal act. 

If there is evidence that Trump was aware of the hack, this would be a boon not only to Willis but to Jack Smith's case in DC. Smith needs to prove that Trump committed "bad acts" in furtherance of his agenda of overturning the election results. If Willis has the goods from Georgia, that would be another nail in Trump's coffin.

Once again, it is a marvel that Republicans can defend this guy. It's a testament to how desperate they are for power, and see Trump's cultists as their only hope. They could, just as plausibly, jettison Trump, lose in 2024 and then re-establish themselves as a Center-Right party. But since Trump was able to win an election he should have lost because of not-so-latent misogyny, I guess they have no choice but to yoke their party to this criminal fuckwad.

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