Opinion | Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is His Most Dangerous posted at 21:50:07 UTC via nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is His Most Dangerous posted at 21:50:07 UTC via nytimes.com SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Aug. 15, 2023, 3:38 p.m. ET The Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Ga.Credit...Joe Raedle/Getty Images By David French The best way to think about Georgia’s sprawling indictment against Donald Trump and his allies is that it is a case about lies. It’s about lying, conspiring to lie and attempting to coax, coerce and cajole others into lying. Whereas the attorney general of Michigan just brought a case narrowly focused on the alleged fake electors in her state (Trump is not a defendant in that one), and the special counsel Jack Smith brought an indictment narrowly focused on the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has brought a case about the entire conspiracy, from start to finish, and targeted each person subject to her jurisdiction for each crime committed in her jurisdiction. In other wor