DrW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:40 pm
Trump's recorded phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, witnessed on both ends, constitutes a felony in Georgia punishable by up to three years in prison. Here is the core of the story as carried by the Daily Beast and now reported by the Washington Post as well.
Daily Beast wrote: David Worley told The Washington Post that the call gave “probable cause” to believe that Trump broke Georgia’s election code, adding: “It’s a crime to solicit election fraud, and asking the secretary to change the votes is a textbook definition of election fraud.” Worley cited a specific law that makes it a crime to solicit someone else to commit election fraud in Georgia—and, according to the Post, that can be punished by as much as three years in prison.
Would it not be ironic if the Georgia AG were to come after Trump on charges of soliciting electron fraud?
If the AG did so, Georgia would be yet another state in which Trump would be in serious legal jeopardy after Jan 20. Maybe that is why:
Daily Beast more or less wrote: --- Prestwick airport [on the west coast of Scotland near one of Trump's golf courses] has been told to expect the arrival of a U.S. military Boeing 757 plane, one that has reportedly been used by Trump before, on Jan. 19.
Extradition anyone?
DrW we discussed his possible exit from the U.S. on the previous board. I did a little armchair investigation and posted the countries where he holds properties that have no extradition agreement with the U.S. So...let's say he really is on his way to avoiding extradition. Depending on the time and date that he flees the country (at some point on the 20th he is no longer President and that would matter) he could use Prestwick as a refueling station (which it is) and/or board another aircraft (private?) to get out of the U.K. (that DOES have an extradition agreement with the U.S.) and leave to parts unknown.
I don't know why people think he'd flee to Moscow. I tend to think that's the last place he'd go. Why? The weather stinks there. No, I think he'd head to warmer climate such as the AE or Indonesia where he holds property. But who knows the mind of Trump? If he flees, he can never come back.
Given all we have seen and heard, I wouldn't put anything past him.
So...let's think about this. He'd have to flee while still in the office of President which provides him protection and land somewhere (or I guess be in a particular International airspace?)
before he loses that protection in a country with which the U.S. has no extradition agreement. In other words: He has to be OUT of the U.K. before Biden is sworn in.
Correct my thinking if you think I am wrong with regard to the timing. But if there is a way for him to slither out of all the legal mess he's facing, I think he'd do it in a SDNY minute.
Now let me come back at this another way. He goes to the U.K. where investigators know there's a flight plan to another country attached to the U.S.-U.K. trip. I wonder if they can detain him in the U.K. for whatever reason while the clock runs out on his presidency?
