The RICO Act ...

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In Facts don't matter, yours truly believed Trump still had a real shot to be POTUS yet again, especially if a possible third party candidate like Joe Manchin decides to jump into the race because the Biden/Trump polls look extremely close but now, Georgia's indictment, using the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations), to indict the Donald and 18 co-conspirators as mobsters, changes everything because RICO is a states oriented entity, immune to presidential pardon if Agent Orange, god forbid, becomes president in 2024. 

An Act relating to the control of organized crime in the United States

On Monday night, in what has now become a regularly occurring event, Donald Trump was indicted for allegedly committing a whole bunch of crimes. This time it was by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis, who accused the ex-president of plotting to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, and charged him and 18 co-conspirators with, among other things, violating the state’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act. If the terms “RICO” and “racketeer” sound familiar to you but you can’t figure out why, it’s probably because the law, passed on the federal level in 1970, has been famously used to crack down on organized crime groups like the Mafia, members of which are probably currently throwing around terms like “numbnuts” and “jamoke” in reference to the ex-president. In addition to the RICO charge, the Fulton County indictment includes more than three dozen counts, 13 of which Trump was charged with.

While Trump has obviously been indicted before—see the Manhattan hush money indictment, Jack Smith’s classified-documents indictment, and Smith’s election-interference indictment—the Georgia case should be especially worrisome to him given that 1) he can’t simply pardon himself if he becomes president again, as the case is state and not federal, and 2) the racketeering charge alone carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison, with a maximum of 20. (Other counts would of course also come with prison time; a conspiracy conviction, for example, would result in a minimum of a year in prison.)

No doubt, the MAGAs will stick by their man no matter what but the GA gambit has real teeth while the other indictments have more wiggle room for the hag fish, known as The Donald, to get out of dodge yet again.

Sixgill Hagfish (Eptatretus hexatrema)

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Hagfish, of the class Myxini /mɪkˈsaɪnaɪ/ (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes /mɪkˈsɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/, are eel-shaped, slime-producing marine fish (occasionally called slime eels). They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, although hagfish do have rudimentary vertebrae.[3] Along with lampreys, hagfish are jawless; the two form the sister group to jawed vertebrates, and living hagfish remain similar to hagfish from around 300 million years ago.