Charlie Pierce Esquire
Charlie Pierce Esquire

This week’s installment of What’s My Indictment? will be taped before a live studio audience in Atlanta, Georgia. An educated guess would be that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have begun to soften up the ground over the weekend prior to what may be a sweeping case for the prosecution. This kind of story rarely escapes by accident. From CNN:

Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation. Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud.

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