# 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:** 98
**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:** [November 8, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1941 "2023-11-08T21:03:21Z")
This is interesting. Remember that commission to remove rogue prosecutors? One of the requirements in the statute is that the Georgia Supreme Court sign off on the rules that the Commission will use. Georgia Supreme Court has issued a preliminary ruling that it doesn’t think it’s got the power to issue what is essentially legislation, and given the Commission two weeks to make submissions on the issue. If the Court concludes it can’t issue rules, then the Commission would not be able to proceed, unless the statute were amended to remove the Court from the process. > **[Georgia Republicans are at risk of losing their anti-Fani Willis weapon](https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/georgia-da-law-fani-willis-rcna124080)** > > The state Supreme Court seems suspicious of its role in plans for a commission that could remove 'rogue' prosecutors. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1942 "2023-11-09T01:58:35Z")
We may look silly in our obsolete garb, but we can smell a poisoned chalice coming from 50 feet away. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1943 "2023-11-09T02:29:26Z")
Is that the chalice from the palace ? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1944 "2023-11-09T02:36:20Z")
I wonder if they are also considering the prospect of a commission to remove rogue supreme court judges. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1945 "2023-11-09T02:40:16Z")
It has the pellet with the poison. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1946 "2023-11-09T03:13:00Z")
Sorry, that’s in the vessel with the pestle. @simster’s chalice has the brew that is true. /ducksandruns ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1947 "2023-11-09T03:14:01Z")
I know there are MAGA Republicans in state office, but there have got to be Republican Georgians who are absolutely pissed at Trump for questioning the integrity of their state run elections, right? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1948 "2023-11-09T03:19:53Z")
No - no - They broke the vessel with the pestle and put the pellet with the poison in the chalice from the palace - the flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true. /end ---
**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 9, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1949 "2023-11-09T07:02:41Z")
Republicans from Georgia aren’t pissed that Trump is questioning election integrity, they’re pissed because they’re trying as hard as they can to disenfranchise Dem voters and skew things permanently GOP and Trump seems to be ignoring their noble efforts. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1950 "2023-11-09T09:29:46Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > … but there have got to be Republican Georgians who are absolutely pissed at Trump for questioning the integrity of their state run elections, IMHO yes, and indeed that been one of the shining lights to come out of this current unpleasantness stateside. ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1951 "2023-11-09T12:09:54Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > We may look silly in our obsolete garb, but we can smell a poisoned chalice coming from 50 feet away. It’s also possible they have principles and don’t want to overstep the bounds of their constitutional mandate. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1952 "2023-11-09T14:01:45Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Republicans from Georgia aren’t pissed that Trump is questioning election integrity, they’re pissed because they’re trying as hard as they can to disenfranchise Dem voters and skew things permanently GOP and Trump seems to be ignoring their noble efforts. ‘Zactly. They were slowly and stealthily putting the noose around democracies’ neck when trump showed up and started screaming “You didn’t do it fast enough, you didn’t do it fast enough; hang democracy right now and appoint me, me, **ME!!!** ” Which awoke the rest of Georgia, and much of the rest of the country, to the plot(s) that had been unfolding largely unnoticed and that had almost reached fruition. So yeah, the GA Rs are pissed. They was foiled by trump’s ham-handed selfishness. Just like everything else in trumpworld: trump touched it then it promptly turned to shit. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1953 "2023-11-13T23:45:01Z")
Has this been played here yet? Jenna Ellis claims Trump “The Boss” was planning to stay in power no matter what. I know most of us already knew this. > **['The boss is not going to leave': Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/boss-leave-proffer-videos-show-trump-lawyers-telling/story?id=104831939)** > > ABC News has obtained video excerpts of proffer interviews Georgia prosecutors held with two ex-Trump lawyers as part of plea deals they struck in the 2020 election case. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1954 "2023-11-13T23:46:13Z")
Oh crud, this is the wrong thread, isn’t it? I’m sorry! There are just too many threads about his crimes. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1955 "2023-11-13T23:46:49Z")
I know. It’s really hard to keep track. I’ll move your post, if you like. ETA: Good article, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1956 "2023-11-14T00:39:50Z")
> “And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,’” Ellis said of the alleged Dec. 19 conversation with Scavino. “And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss’, meaning President Trump – and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him – he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.’” > > Ellis continued, “And I said to him, ‘Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?’ and he said, ‘We don’t care.’” Sure, Jenna. You were the voice of reason. Just like in your crocodile tears plea bargain letter, where you said the only thing you did wrong was listening to all the bad men who told you lies. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1957 "2023-11-14T01:00:29Z")
Re the claim that the boss was not going to leave, they should have realized the implausibility of his staying cooped up there for long: [Trump thinks the ‘White House is a real dump,’](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/01/trump-thinks-white-house-real-dump/531212001/#) > [@](#): > > Chatting with some members before a recent round of golf, he explained his frequent [Bedminster] appearances: “That White House is a real dump.” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1958 "2023-11-14T11:40:09Z")
It wasn’t about the place, it was the power he planned to keep. ---
**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 14, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1959 "2023-11-14T13:59:26Z")
no, that video was done for the georgia case. it was recorded, and the next day ellis walked into court and took the plea. parts of the powell video are out now as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928/1960 "2023-11-14T16:11:02Z")
Jenna Ellis is such an idiot. I have an extra special dislike for her because really……why throw your life away on a criminal enterprise when you weren’t even capable of helping them……as far as I can tell she just followed everyone around screaming “I want to be on TV, too!” I shared some of my thoughts about her being a fake Christian grifter on her Twitter feed, using my seldom used account with 0 followers and little engagement. Then I noticed one of posts had actually garnered a LIKE. It was the insulting post I had posted on Jenna Ellis’s feed. The LIKE was from……….Jenna Ellis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-trump-is-indicted-in-georgia-indicted-on-august-14-2023/979928.md?page=99)