Donald Trump faces four indictments, 91 criminal charges and hundreds of years of maximum prison time combined.

This is a former president who — according to the latest grand jury indictment in Fulton County, Georgia — participated in a “criminal enterprise.” Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused of trying “to unlawfully change the outcome of the election” in 2020. Among the 13 felony charges he faces is one count of violating the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act and two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery.

Most of those charges are related to a fake elector scheme by the Trump campaign in which a slate of “alternate” electors in Georgia would cast electoral votes for Trump instead of Joe Biden. The president of the most powerful democracy in the world allegedly tried to steal an election.

We can’t say it often enough: This is serious. Americans cannot shrug this off or normalize it, no matter how many times Trump gets indicted. Yet it feels like business as usual. Not only is Trump favored to win the GOP presidential nomination, he’s also neck and neck with President Biden in the 2024 general election, according to a July poll by the New York Times/Siena Poll.

MORE THAN A CULT

Trump’s support cannot only be explained as the product of the cult-like power he has over his MAGA base, which accounts for roughly 40% of Republican voters who believe those indictments are nothing but a conspiracy against him.

more: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article278265068.html

    • zik@aussie.zone
      121·
      1 year ago

      Sure. But most Americans don’t seem to regard Trump as the worst president ever which boggles my mind. This guy was openly trying to overthrow democracy in America and was engaging in organised criminal activities, and you think there were worse presidents? I mean he was literally trying to overthrow your entire constitution and system of government. Can it get worse than that?

      • tacosplease@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        Do we really not say Trump is the worst president? If not him then who? Maybe W for destabilizing the Middle East? Still seems like more people think Trump is worse than G. W. Bush though.

        • zik@aussie.zone
          3·
          1 year ago

          NIxon is often quoted. But maybe you’re right and Americans really do regard him as the worst ever.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
        72·
        1 year ago

        Conservatives are not the majority. The majority of Americans do see Trump as the worst president ever. Normal people hate the motherfucker and his followers. Unfortunately, conservatives are as loud and violent as they are unintelligent. They are a plague in desperate need of a cure.