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Trump’s Lawyer: His Heart Lies Within Its Perimeter
If he had the alleged heart, the fact of which of course he’s not admitting
Last August’s election racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Georgia is 98 pages (PDF). It cites one act by Trump: Making a “nationally televised speech falsely declaring victory” the day after the election.
Is that all Trump did? No, sorry, I spoke too fast.
Across 19 defendants, the indictment names 161 “acts of racketeering activity and overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
Act 157, nearly a year after the election, was Trump continuing to insist to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that he could “change the Georgia election result” based on an imaginary story of voting irregularities that never happened.
Trump is facing 13 charges in this case in Georgia.
What we’ve got new today is a 67-page filing by Trump’s legal team claiming he has…
