Well, of course he would have. The man retweets demon sperm doctors, after all. But the reality was actually far worse than anything Linds could have imagined: Trump was listening to Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell. And the only reason Lindell isn’t currently ranting about aliens is no one thought of sending him a VHS copy of Plan 9 From Outer Space with a Post-It note saying, “Dude! Election fraud! Check it out!”
Meanwhile, the grand jurors spilled other tantalizing details about the evidence they saw.
One was that they had heard a recording of a phone call Trump placed to late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston in which the president asked the fellow Republican to convene a special session of the Legislature to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow victory in Georgia.
One juror said Ralston proved to be “an amazing politician.”
The speaker “basically cut the president off. He said, ‘I will do everything in my power that I think is appropriate.’ … He just basically took the wind out of the sails,” the juror said. “‘Well, thank you,’ you know, is all the president could say.”
So was Ralston really an amazing politician or just a middling preschool teacher? If he actually got Trump to eat his dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets and go down for a nap, I’d be willing to concede that he’s an amazing something. If not, he was simply doing the least that could be expected of an elected official in a liberal democracy.
Jurors also indicated that they were deadly serious in their deliberations while at times being moved by the witnesses who were victimized by Trump’s (allegedly) extralegal shenanigans.
Some jurors mentioned Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s wife, Tricia, who reportedly broke down while testifying about the threats she received after her husband refused to put his thumb on the scale for Trump. They also mentioned Fulton County poll workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, who’d been named and shamed by Trump and Giuliani.
“I was pretty emotional throughout the whole thing,” one juror told the AJC. “I wouldn’t cry in front of any of the witnesses, but when I would get in my car, I was like, I just left that and I have to just go do my job now? … I just know things that are hard to know.”
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Trump and Co. may find out soon that it’s harder to influence a grand jury armed with all the facts than it is to bamboozle frothing hordes of partisans who get all their information from Tucker Carlson. The Journal-Constitution said the jurors indicated the process was “somber and thorough” and that they held the district attorney’s team of prosecutors and investigators “in high regard.”
The jurors also seemed to come away from the process with newfound respect for our election system—a respect that Trump and his cronies have worked for roughly three years to undermine.
“I can honestly give a damn of whoever goes to jail, you know, like personally,” one juror told the Journal-Constitution. “I care more about there being more respect in the system for the work that people do to make sure elections are free and fair.”
Another said, “I tell my wife if every person in America knew every single word of information we knew, this country would not be divided as it is right now.”
Trump can fool some of the people some of the time, but apparently he can’t fool a grand jury—or the legal system. And in the end, that’s all that really matters, now isn’t it?
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