# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/401 "2023-08-15T04:12:00Z")
IMHO, this is the first time that the confident assumption that Trump will never see the inside of a jail cell has been seriously undermined, and if Trump doesn’t already know this, he surely will by tomorrow. I’m having an extra late-night martini just for that. Fani Willis is my new hero. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/402 "2023-08-15T04:12:10Z")
Maybe, but if trying 19 people at once, that rules out a number of spaces, no? (I realize it is not simultaneous, but with all the associated personnel and gong show it will need a big venue?) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/403 "2023-08-15T04:12:45Z")
During Covid time, our courts would do jury selection in hotel convention halls, to ensure social distancing. Courts, like shows, must go on. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/404 "2023-08-15T04:12:58Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Point is, that as long as you have the players (judge, clerks, prosecutor, defense, etc) you can convene a court anywhere. Exactly. I participated in court being “in session” during 3 different site views with juries. A little awkward, but it can be done. * * * > [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m having an extra late-night martini just for that. Fani Willis is my new hero. I’m going to join you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/405 "2023-08-15T04:13:58Z")
Whatever are you talking about? Willis? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/406 "2023-08-15T04:14:26Z")
Heh, I’m imagining an arena court, Wrestlemania style. “Ooohhh, the steel chair!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/407 "2023-08-15T04:14:56Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I’m going to join you. 🙂 And I’m going to join both of you. Cheers! ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/408 "2023-08-15T04:16:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Point is, that as long as you have the players (judge, clerks, prosecutor, defense, etc) you can convene a court anywhere. Don’t forget the fringed flag, just to piss certain people off. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/409 "2023-08-15T04:17:43Z")
Cheers. You’ve talked me into it! ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/410 "2023-08-15T04:20:02Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Is it wrong these remind me of terrible music videos from 1990? RICO. Suave. If you hadn’t posted this I would have. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/411 "2023-08-15T04:21:52Z")
Tomorrow will be interesting. Safe to say _The Price is Right_ will not be on the air. Too bad. It was Dream Car Week. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/412 "2023-08-15T04:28:53Z")
Tomorrow will indeed be interesting. I expect that Trumpists will take to social media, if they haven’t already, with their “witch hunt” and “politically motivated” accusations. Not to mention a few “but Hillarys” and “let’s go Brandons.” Big talk, but little action, in other words. But I just hope there are no “violence if necessary” and ''let’s get Willis" and similar posts. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/413 "2023-08-15T04:29:25Z")
I didn’t recognize many of the names. > **[Trump charged in Georgia 2020 election probe, his fourth indictment](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/14/trump-indictment-georgia-election-2020/)** > > Trump was charged with 13 counts in Georgia, including violating the state’s racketeering act and soliciting a public officer to violate their oath. **Excerpt** _Among those charged are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, architects of a scheme to create slates of alternate Trump electors._ _Also indicted were two Georgia-based lawyers advocating on Trump’s behalf, Ray S. Smith II and Robert Cheeley; a senior campaign adviser, Mike Roman, who helped plan the elector meeting; and three prominent Georgia Republicans who served as electors: former GOP chairman David Shafer, former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still and Cathy Latham of Coffee County._ _Several lesser-known players who participated in efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in Georgia were also indicted, including three people accused of harassing Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman. They are Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd and Trevian Kutti. The latter is a former publicist for R. Kelly and an associate of Kanye West._ _A final group of individuals charged in the indictment allegedly participated in an effort to steal election equipment data in rural Coffee County, Ga. In addition to Latham, the former county GOP chair, they are former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton and Georgia businessman Scott Hall._ _Trump was [indicted in Washington this month] in a separate Justice Department probe into his various attempts to keep his grip on power during the chaotic aftermath of his 2020 defeat. Some aspects of that four-count federal case, led by [special counsel Jack Smith] overlap with Willis’s sprawling probe, which accuses Trump and his associates of a broad criminal enterprise to reverse Biden’s election victory in Georgia._ _But the Fulton County indictment, issued by a grand jury and made public Monday night, is far more encompassing and detailed than Smith’s ongoing federal investigation. Willis declined Monday night to say if she has had contact with Smith._ ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/414 "2023-08-15T04:32:04Z")
Some of these defendants are looking at potentially spending the rest of their lives in prison, in Georgia, hot, very hot and very big bugs. Once that sinks in deals will be made. Would those deals be considered the 2 they need to prove for Rico to kick in? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/415 "2023-08-15T04:33:21Z")
Another summary. > **[Trump, allies charged with racketeering scheme over bid to subvert election...](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/fulton-county-trump-indictment-00111211)** > > Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis leveled the charges after a two-year investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/416 "2023-08-15T04:35:16Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > trying 19 people at once Especially _these_ 19 people. Batman has a saner rogues gallery. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/417 "2023-08-15T04:39:17Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Willis declined Monday night to say if she has had contact with Smith. Note that that’s from Dr\_Paprika’s Washington Post excerpted quote, not from the good doctor himself. Smart move, but if she didn’t have any contact with Smith, she might want to say so. And Smith might want to say that he was never in contact with Willis. From what I’ve seen in just surfing around a right-wing forum, it is assumed that she and Smith are working with each other to bring down Trump however they can. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/418 "2023-08-15T04:42:02Z")
I’ve been scratching my head over the Coffee county shenanigans for a couple days now. It’s been solidly R since 1984 and in the 2020 election went 70% Trump. But it’s a tiny county and even if all 4,511 votes for Biden were flipped, it would be far, far from the 11,780 votes Trump needed to carry the state. What did they think they were going to do with the seized Dominion machines? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/419 "2023-08-15T04:44:43Z")
Sounds like Coffee County is Chock Full O’ Nuts? I called and called Willis but she wouldn’t speak to me… Guess she’s busy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/420 "2023-08-15T04:45:59Z")
> [@](#): > > What did they think they were going to do with the seized Dominion machines? Blame Canada! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=22)