# What happens if Trump is indicted in Georgia? (Indicted on August 14, 2023) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 17, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928 "2023-02-17T03:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1981 "2023-11-15T23:05:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I just hope it has tire chains so that it does not lose traction and keep spinning on one person. Depends on the person. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1982 "2023-11-16T01:26:02Z")
One of the Georgia 19 may get a time-out. > **[Trump co-defendant in Georgia faces possible bail revocation after attacking...](https://www.rawstory.com/fulton-county-trump-harrison-floyd-bail/)** > > One of the co-defendants in the racketeering case that includes Donald Trump out of Fulton County, may have his bail revoked. According to a motion filed by District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday, Harrison Floyd should have his bail revoked... ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1983 "2023-11-16T02:52:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > One of the Georgia 19 may get a time-out. _“She didn’t need a quarter of a million dollars of people’s hard-earned money to be raised offline. You know? And it doesn’t take a quarter of a million dollars to accept a plea deal either. Or to deny one. OK? So she just showed who she really is.”_ Umm, dude? Why does trump, the self professed BILLIONAIRE need a dime of _people’s hard-earned money_, And if donate your hard-earned money to a Billionaire, you are a special kind of stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1984 "2023-11-16T06:10:26Z")
I hope that Trump sees this, is struck by therealization that people do actually go to jail for shit like that, and cleans up his act. I also hope I win the lottery. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1985 "2023-11-16T09:04:52Z")
_Other_ people go to jail. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1986 "2023-11-16T17:48:24Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > in the prosecuting donald trump podcast, andrew weissman notes that judge cannon’s latest rulings will have an impact on the ga trial. the judge is holding on the trial date, while delaying other deadlines. there is a march hearing where she may move the trial date, but it will be too late for willis to use the date. The MeidasTouch video I watched went so far as to say Cannon was doing this on purpose (keeping her trial date) as a defensive move to delay the GA case and all other trials until after November. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1987 "2023-11-16T17:52:25Z")
the prosecuting donald trump team did not go that far, but did think it really loud. weissmann is losing the reins a bit. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1988 "2023-11-16T17:57:05Z")
If this was the case, there would almost have to be some sort of coordination with the Trump defense team, right? I can believe she’s been implicitly colluding thus far (doing things favorable to Trump’s defense without explicitly being told to do so by the Trump team), but explicit collusion would be truly shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1989 "2023-11-16T18:21:46Z")
Serious question: Would it be illegal? Obviously it would be viewed as misconduct and in a sane world it would get her impeached and removed. But the political reality is that impeachment is impossible. So … if that happened, would there be any actual consequences? I’m asking because I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1990 "2023-11-16T20:10:20Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > So … if that happened, would there be any actual consequences? Yes, she will be named to the Supreme Court during the following Trump Reign. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1991 "2023-11-16T23:42:07Z")
> **["Has the media not learned anything?": New York Times ripped for...](https://news.yahoo.com/media-not-learned-anything-york-165641856.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb)** > > "Do better," critics urge after the Times buried Trump's alarming "vermin" rhetoric. _The language is the language that dictators use to instill fear,” Timothy Naftali, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, told The Washington Post. “When you dehumanize an opponent, you strip them of their constitutional rights to participate securely in a democracy because you’re saying they’re not human. That’s what dictators do.”_ _Longtime Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe [called](https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1724093436666532045) Trump’s comments “straight-up Nazi talk.”_ _New York University historian Ruth Ben Ghiat told the Post via email that "calling people 'vermin’ was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini to dehumanize people and encourage their followers to engage in violence.”_ _“Trump is also using projection: note that he mentions all kinds of authoritarians ‘communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left’ to set himself up as the deliverer of freedom,” Ben-Ghiat added. “Mussolini promised freedom to his people too and then declared dictatorship.”_ _Presidential historian Jon Meacham warned on [MSNBC](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-scarborough-and-jon-meacham-directly-equate-trumps-vermin-speech-to-nazism-opens-the-door-to-ghastly-crimes/) that “to call your opponents vermin and to dehumanize them is to not only open the door but to walk through the door toward the most ghastly kinds of crimes.”_ Soon a book entitled- _My Struggle_. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1992 "2023-11-17T00:23:45Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Soon a book entitled- _My Struggle_. Ha. A book? Maybe a tweet about his struggle. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1993 "2023-11-17T02:42:31Z")
Miller, Bannon and others would produce the plagarism, probably using one of those LLMs to translate and slightly modify the original, then he would put his name on it. In Sharpie, of course. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1994 "2023-11-17T02:56:38Z")
[What happens if the Georgia trial is ongoing in January 2025?](https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/the-collision/pondering-the-prosecution-of-a-president/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Pondering+the+Prosecution+of+a+President&utm_campaign=Pondering+the+Prosecution+of+a+President&vgo_ee=8J4xxnv9fXibyWfmxQodAuDP2yBR%2FRQQb%2B7YUTFEsqQ%3D%3AJOqebsNXSm9LM8%2FYbbqMQ1HAAOcvoWlz) > [@](#): > > “I believe the trial will take many months,” Willis said Tuesday. “And I don’t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025.” . . . > > Of course, Trump may not win the presidential election, and he may not even win the Republican nomination. And Trump, like any one of us, could drop dead tomorrow. > > Now that we’ve stipulated that those and numerous other scenarios are possible, let’s return to what Willis is suggesting and ask: How would things proceed if Trump’s Fulton County prosecution is ongoing as he’s being inaugurated on January 20, 2025? . . . > > _what we are testing now is too bizarre to even make it into a law school hypothetical._ ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1995 "2023-11-17T06:13:38Z")
If Trump is re-elected, nothing will happen. He will ignore the Georgia charges and declare them invalid because he is President so he can do whatever he wants. The state of Georgia lacks the ability to compel him to comply. Trump has already publicly and loudly announced his revenge tour so the prosecutor and the judge will be brought up on false charges and jailed. If Trump is not re-elected and this case drags on into 2025, that is ideal. Although he will certainly claim the election was stolen _again_ (you’d think he would have figured it out after the first time it happened!) and he will _immediately_ start campaigning for 2028 so that he can say the leading Republican nominee is being persecuted for his politics. But no one will care and he will eventually have a rage-induced cardiac incident that his followers will blame on the Deep State. He will die destitute and unloved although probably well before he would ever see the inside of a prison cell. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1996 "2023-11-17T13:42:04Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pZOF9q5fzfs/maxresdefault.jpg "Oval Office Cold Open - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZOF9q5fzfs) One of the funniest SNL bits. Skip to about 4:10 to see Trump talk about the book he’s going to write. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1997 "2023-11-17T20:58:55Z")
> August 5th is the proposed trial start date. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1998 "2023-11-17T22:00:11Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > If Trump is re-elected, nothing will happen. Could be. On the other hand, the extradition law in the District of Columbia doesn’t have an exception for when the defendant has an important job: > **[§ 23–704. Extradition. | D.C. Law Library](https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/23-704)** ---
**Author:** ![Flopnoodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@Flopnoodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flopnoodle)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1999 "2023-11-19T19:28:55Z")
Yes, yes, yes. But who’s going to actually enforce it? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/2000 "2023-11-27T19:46:59Z")
Eastman wants his trial date moved _up_: > **[Trump Co-Defendant Asks for Quicker Trial Schedule in Georgia Election Case](https://themessenger.com/politics/john-eastman-trump-georgia-trial-schedule-fani-willis)** > > In a court filing Monday, former Trump election attorney John Eastman said he opposed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' scheduling motion filed earlier this month. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=101)