# 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:** 68
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1341 "2023-09-07T19:19:20Z")
That bit really was luscious. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1342 "2023-09-07T19:26:44Z")
I picture her and her staff writing that letter over beers, cheering each other on. “Tell him to buy the RICO guidance document!” “Tell him he has to pay for it himself!” ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1343 "2023-09-07T19:34:27Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > She could have, but the way she wrote it, with all of the citations and weight of case law, it just had so much more force. Reading that must have been like getting hit in the head with a hammer. Oh, I agree! I wouldn’t change a word. I was just summarizing in a very base way what I think her overall message was, this time delivered in a refreshingly undisguised manner. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1344 "2023-09-07T19:34:57Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I picture her and her staff writing that letter over beers, cheering each other on. > > “Tell him to buy the RICO guidance document!” > “Tell him he has to pay for it himself! So, a Georgia version of _The Cossacks are Writing a Letter to the Sultan_? > **[Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks)** > > Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks is a painting by Ilya Repin. It is also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto and Cossacks are Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (Russian: Запорожцы пишут письмо турецкому султану, romanized: Zaporozhtsy pishut pis'mo turetskomu sultanu; Ukrainian: Запорожці пишуть листа турецькому султанові, romanized: Zaporozhtsі pyshut' lysta turets'komu sultanovi). > Repin began the 2.03 m (6 foot 8 inch) by 3.58 m (11 foot 9 inch) canvas in 1880 and fi... ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1345 "2023-09-07T19:35:15Z")
Holy hannah, that letter from Ms. Willis is priceless. Thanks for the link, @JohnT . I appreciated the caselaw citations and consequent principles, but I think that some of the best parts were in the introductions to each section of the Voluntary Responses, which dripped with contempt. I particularly liked: “Your letter makes clear that you lack a basic understanding of the law, its practice, and the ethical obligations of attorneys generally and prosecutors specifically.” “Allow me the opportunity to provide a brief tutorial on criminal conspiracy law, Chairman Jordan.” “I do have some suggestions on how you can engage in productive legislative activity.” Again, priceless! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1346 "2023-09-07T19:36:11Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > “I do have some suggestions on how you can engage in productive legislative activity.” Does it involve a suggestion to stick the subpoena into a bodily orifice? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1347 "2023-09-07T19:37:54Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Does it involve a suggestion to stick the subpoena into a bodily orifice? That wouldn’t have been out of place in this response. Well done, Fani! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1348 "2023-09-07T19:38:13Z")
I still think that she should have pointed out the lack of wisdom of trying to obstruct justice in a case where the suspects are being charged with trying to obstruct justice. “I’d be happy to have you here before me in the courts of Georgia, as well.” ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1349 "2023-09-07T19:41:53Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I still think that she should have pointed out the lack of wisdom of trying to obstruct justice in a case where the suspects are being charged with trying to obstruct justice. Oh, I think she made that clear. Particularly under 1(c), starting on page 3: “Your letter improperly interferes with the administration of criminal justice.” ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1350 "2023-09-07T19:48:29Z")
My eyeballs are singed from reading that. Holy hell, what a masterpiece! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1351 "2023-09-07T19:53:11Z")
Or she could have said, “N U T S !” They should painfully tattoo the contents of this letter to the inside of Jordan’s eyelids. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1352 "2023-09-07T20:01:06Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Reading that must have been like getting hit in the head with a hammer. I seriously doubt that Jordan read of word of it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1353 "2023-09-07T20:19:04Z")
I’ve read this far: > As I make clear below, there is no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter, as you attempt to do. Furthermore, your note calls to mind another letter recently submitted to a House select committee: “This unprecedented action serves no legitimate legislative purpose and would set a dangerous precedent for future Congresses . . . the American people deserve better.” See Letter from Rep. Jim Jordan to Chairman Bennie Thompson dated January 9, 2022. Just to be clear, did Gym Jordan write a letter in 2022 that smacks down his current request in his own words? Hoist? Petard? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1354 "2023-09-07T20:37:32Z")
That was some letter. I enjoyed the use of the word “fret”. I’m fairly positive that Jordan did not read it. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1355 "2023-09-07T20:38:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just to be clear, did Gym Jordan write a letter in 2022 that smacks down his current request in his own words? [Yes.](https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1480329304936529921/photo/1) The phrase “This unprecedented action…” in Jordan’s letter referred to, I believe, the Select Committee’s subpoena of Jordan regarding his actions and knowledge of 1/6. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1356 "2023-09-07T21:33:42Z")
I particularly enjoyed the swipe at Lindsey Graham. > [@](#): > > If you are sincerely interested in improving federal law, I encourage you to make it incumbent upon your Congressional colleagues to cooperate with lawful investigations without requiring intervention by the highest court in the land. That would be a productive federal initiative. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1357 "2023-09-07T21:43:07Z")
This wonderful response was written for the ages, not for Jim Jordan. It will be studied and quoted forever. For sheer bile I can think of few legal equivalents. Really the best comparisons are songs from Dylan’s nasty period. (E.g. “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “Positively Fourth Street”) Can you get a Nobel Prize for a legal document? (Too bad it contains typos that mar its beauty. How could they have missed them?) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1358 "2023-09-07T21:45:56Z")
Jim Jordan: “Fuck me, I wish I was smart enough to be able to write a response to that!” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1359 "2023-09-07T21:51:03Z")
> Chairman Jordan, I tell people often “deal with reality or reality will deal with you.” So DA Willis is admitting to liberal bias? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1360 "2023-09-07T22:00:11Z")
The special grand jury report will be released Friday morning at 10am. Now that the indictments are in, it will be released, I believe, in full. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=69)