Georgia Indictment Says Trump Telling People to Watch TV Is Proof of Racketeering Activity
In their ongoing crusade to criminalize dissent, former President Donald Trump’s persecutors might have sunk to a new low.
Trump’s latest criminal indictment, handed up Monday by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, claimed the leading GOP 2024 presidential contender and his associates “constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities.”
It included one assertion that defies belief.
In a section that detailed the supposed acts of racketeering, “Act 22” accused Trump of encouraging his Twitter followers to turn on the television.
“On or about the 3rd day of December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP caused to be tweeted from the Twitter account @RealDonaldTrump, ‘Georgia hearings now on @OANN. Amazing!’ This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy,” the indictment read.
This is not a joke. In the dystopian world of leftist prosecutors, telling people on social media to watch a hearing on the One America News Network amounts to racketeering.
The New York Times, of course, published an annotated version of the indictment Tuesday.