Today is Tuesday, August 15, 2023, a day after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis handed up an astonishing 41-count indictment against Herr Dumpf and eighteen other codefendants, including the disgraced former mayor of New York City, Rudy “Dripping Face” Giuliani. Yesterday when the indictment was still unsealed, I had hoped he would be one of the coconspirators, and my wish did come true. The details of this sweeping indictment against a former commander in chief are disclosed in an online CNN article by Jeremy Herb and Tierney Sneed entitled “Takeaways from the Georgia indictment of Donald Trump and 18 others.”

Thus this marks the fourth time Donald “Grifter” Dumpf has been charged with crimes within the year. The indictment accuses Dumpf of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. This statute is known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which has been successfully used to bring down such criminal organizations as the Mafia.

The 19 – 19, egad! – defendants have until next Friday, August 25, to voluntarily surrender, Willis told reporters late Monday night. Willis intends to prosecute all 19 defendants together within six months, as she informed CNN’s Sara Murray last night. Good luck with that, but I feel this prosecutor is iron willed and will take no bullshit from the Dumpf team. He’s met his match in this district attorney.

Some takeaways from the Georgia indictment:

• Trump is now facing 91 charges across four indictments in all

After the Georgia indictment, Herr Dumpf is now facing four separate indictments at the same time that he’s running for president in 2024. Why he’s not immediately disqualified using the 14th Amendment is beyond me!

The charging document in Georgia unsealed yesterday offers a sweeping indictment of the former president’s conduct after the election, documenting a breakthrough number of ways that he tried to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.

What was expected in the document was the shocking, infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked the Georgia official to “find” the votes he needed to win the state, the fake elector scheme, and a September 2021 letter he sent to Raffensperger urging him to decertify the state’s 2020 vote. Thank God this elected bureaucrat decided not to listen to the deranged president.

• Willis uses racketeering charges to outline a “criminal enterprise”

The sprawling racketeering charge that Dumpf and 18 others now face outlines dozens of alleged criminal actions related to their efforts after the 2020 election and attempts to cover up those actions.

This is what is known, as mentioned above, as the RICO Act and it serves as an umbrella over several allegedly criminal actions the group took to advance their so-called enterprise. The stalwart district attorney alleges that the 19 codefendants “engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result.”

In addition, the indictment cited 30 unindicted coconspirators who participated in the enterprise. I wonder if these individuals were given some sort of immunity against prosecution because they spilled the beans about their unlawful enterprise to Willis and other prosecutors.

Some of those criminal actions the defendants are charged with engaging in are staggering: they include making false statements, filing false documents and forgeries, impersonating officials, conducting computer breaches, and attempts to influence witnesses.

One particular specification in the charge that I personally admire is the one involving harassing election worker Ruby Freeman. This is the poor election worker who was horribly harassed by the Dumpf team of deplorables who had her life upended because of the intense intimidation she experienced by Dumpf and his allies in crime.

Among the 161 alleged acts that the indictment purports were done in furtherance of the charged conspiracy to reverse Dumpf’s electoral loss were the several episodes of outreach from Dumpf and his advisers to state legislators in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona. The indictment also highlighted the effort to organize fake electors in Wisconsin, Arizona, and other states, in addition to the coordination of an alternative slate of electors in Georgia.

What is not missed in the overarching indictment is the pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence to disrupt Congress’s certification of the 2020 results.

• Meadows and Giuliani are both hit with charges

This indictment marks the first time that two of Dumpf’s top lieutenants supporting his efforts to undermine the 2020 election outcome – former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former consigliere Rudy “Dripping Face” Giuliani – are facing charges related to election subversion. How wonderful, I say.

It’s quite ironic that Giuliani, who himself is a former prosecutor, is being prosecuted under the RICO Act, the same charge in which he actually prosecuted other New York notable underworld figures before he ascended to the mayoralty. I think it’s karma in a way. Giuliani is facing the most charges of any of the other codefendants besides Dumpf: 13 counts, while Meadows is only facing two. Giuliani would be a fool now not to sing to Willis and her team – to incriminate his boss Donald J. Dumpf in order to avoid serving time. He’s 79 years old right now; does he want to go to jail after turning 80 or 81 – if he’s still alive by then?

Both Meadows and Giuliani played key roles in Dumpf’s multpronged efforts to overturn the election. Text messages that Meadows turned over to the House select committee that investigated the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack show how he allegedly coordinated numerous efforts by Dumpf’s allies to spread baseless claims of election fraud.

Meadows is also charged in connection with his role in Dumpf’s “perfect” phone call with Raffensperger.

Giuliani is charged with soliciting Georgia state lawmakers, making false statements to the Georgia House and Senate, and the effort to put forward fake electors in Georgia. These charges should cause Giuliani’s hair dye to run even more under the glare of negative publicity regarding his diabolical role in subverting democracy for a fascistic cult leader.

• Indictment highlights under-the-radar breach of Georgia voting systems

Several of former Dumpf’s codefendants in the sprawling indictment are facing charges in connection with the breach of a voting system in rural Coffee County, Georgia, that took place after the 2020 election.

Some of these newly indicted codefendants helped orchestrate and carry out the breach. They include the deranged lawyer Sidney Powell, who never shied away from any Fox News interview espousing her crazy – and now allegedly criminal – ideas about the 2020 election; Misty Hampton, a former elections supervisor for Coffee County; Cathy Latham, a former local GOP official in Coffee County; and Scott Hall, a pro-Dumpf poll watcher and bail bondsman in Georgia.

Now instead of smelling the coffee, these coconspirators of the principal architect of this antidemocratic scheme could be smelling several years in prison for their despicable actions.

As a result of this fourth and vastly serious charge leveled against the ex-president, we cannot accept any more Republican defense of this reprobate. Anyone who still continues to defend this rogue deserves to be unseated whenever he or she is up for reelection.

Now I suggest that you read the full indictment if you can. It’s being annotated on my smartphone right now. It lays out very clearly all of the charges against Dumpf and his 18 codefendants.

Stay safe and be well.

Oh, by the way, I did buy both the Daily News and The New York Times, even though the articles didn’t have all of the details behind the 41-count indictment. That will be in tomorrow morning’s editions.

Isn’t that a deliberately bad picture of the Tangerine Menace?