Today is Monday, August 14, 2023. Instead of “love is in the air,” as the song from the 1970s romance series Love Boat, so trippingly proclaimed, we have instead “an indictment is in the air,” as Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is presenting evidence against the Orange Hemorrhoid right now in the Peach State. Thus an indictment is as imminent as they come, with a possible announcement either coming down later today or sometime tomorrow, we can expect.

In the meantime, the twice-impeached, thrice-indicted former president is committing witness tampering out in the open which would have resulted in anyone else other than Dumpf being hauled into jail for committing such an illegal act. How dare this criminal claim that the son of the current president is being treated with kid gloves when no one involved with so many cases he’s entangled with is not throwing him in prison right now – or gagging him indefinitely. So today Dumpf openly told Georgia’s former lieutenant governor, Geoff Duncan, not to testify before the Fulton County grand jury that is set to hear evidence this week in the state’s 2020 election interference case. As the Orange Blob incessantly screams “election interference” with those prepared to hold him accountable for his myriad crimes committed out in the open since 2020, he is actually waiting to be indicted for specifically committing this act: election interference during the 2020 presidential race.

This alarming behavior being committed by a former president of the United States is reported on in an online article for Common Dreams by the Common Dreams staff entitled ‘This Is Witness Tampering’: Trump Tells Former Georgia Official Not to Testify.”

In his unlawful tweet, the impetuous ex-commander in grief misspelled the name of the lieutenant governor who so boldly answered his duty by testifying in front of the Georgia grand jury. It’s so typical of this stupid man! He called “Geoff” Duncan “Jeff,” without doing due diligence here in spelling his name correctly.

It goes without saying that legal experts argued that Herr Dumpf’s post amounts to witness tampering. Uh-duh! Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the law would come to the same conclusion here.

Glenn Kirschner, an NBC News legal analyst, pointedly called Dumpf’s rant “witness tampering and obstruction of justice.” He added, “Trump indicates he knows a witness is about to testify before the grand jury, and he states – unequivocally and directly – ‘he shouldn’t.'” Kirschner also said, “I expect we’ll see these crimes charged.”

Another expert, Anthony Michael Kreis, a professor at George State University College of Law, agreed, writing, “This is blatantly unlawful stuff.”

Those charges that the primary insurrectionist is expected to face include criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud.

Not only will Dumpf be charged in this imminent indictment, but probably more than a dozen individuals when her team concludes presenting its case to a grand jury.

It has now been reported that Atlanta-area prosecutors are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County. Several persons involved in the voting systems breach in that county are among those who may face charges in the sprawling criminal inquiry.

We could learn as early as tonight or tomorrow about who has been charged in this comprehensive criminal probe. I will definitely buy copies of the papers tomorrow with such an unprecedented headline printed on their front pages. So far, I have three papers with Trump indictments on their front pages. Soon I should have one more, I dare say.

Segueing into a new series that I started watching on Netflix: Painkiller starring a much older-looking Matthew Broderick in the role of Richard Sackler, the nephew who took over management of the family business, Purdue Pharma, after the death of his marketing whiz of an uncle, Richard Sackler, who started it all many decades ago. It is Richard who created and marketed the designer narcotic OxyContin in the late 1990s that resulted in the staggering deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The series dropped on Netflix on our anniversary, August 10, and I just started it the other day. I can’t state with any certainty how good it is, since I’ve only watched one episode so far. But if you recall, I did watch a similar series on Hulu about two years on the same subject: Dopesick that starred Michael Keaton as a once-principled doctor in Appalachia who falls victim to the siren song of OxyContin himself when he’s injured in a car crash.

I feel every American should know the name of this opulently rich, highly dysfunctional family – the Sacklers who amassed a fortune distributing this opioid to thousands of Americans and who haven’t met any real accountability yet -other than in the pocketbook. But no one in the family has seen a day in jail. And I doubt anyone will.

The series begins with real testimony from a mom who lost her young son to the drug. Then the first episode introduces us to a former investigator for Virginia’s U.S. attorney’s office, Edie Flowers (Uzo Aduba), who travels to Washington, D.C., to recount her time in the field, discovering the drug, and eventually trying to make Perdue pay for the irreparable harm the company caused countless people. Though Edie is the central narrator, other figures flesh out the story. There is Glen Kryger (Taylor Kitsch), a car mechanic who is injured on the job and later prescribed OxyContin during his recovery. Another individual, Shannon Schaeffer (West Duchovny), is a recent college graduate recruited by Perdue and eventually becomes a key sales rep. Then there is Richard Sackler living in the lap of luxury (Matthew Broderick), the Perdue patriarch responsible for the nation’s suffering over several decades. This is exactly what goes on in the first episode.

By the way, the Georgia grand jury has just handed down 10 indictments, but the names of those charged have not been released. I do hope that Rudy Giuliani’s name is one of those indicted. But we’ll see sometime tomorrow, I guess.

I’ll end with “10 indictments are already in the air.”

Stay safe and be well.