One of the news stations either on Monday or Tuesday was indicating that none of this impacts Trump's eligibility to run or serve as POTUS. In fact they were indicating that winning the 2024 election could be an actual strategy because if he is elected president, then he would have the power & authority to dismiss any cases against him and/or to pardon himself.
They said he could even serve as president from prison.
The movie
Idiocracy keeps coming to mind
He can't dismiss the Georgia case against him. It's a state case.
A day after the Jan. 6, 2021,
attack on the U.S. Capitol, as the country was still reeling from the violent attempt to halt the transfer of presidential power, a local
Republican Party official greeted a group of computer experts outside the election office in a rural county in south Georgia, where they were given access to voting equipment.
They claim their intent was to copy software and data from the election systems in an attempt to prove claims by President
Donald Trump and his allies that voting machines had been rigged.
But here's the problem with that. They did this at a very red polling place.
The security breach inside the election office in
Coffee County, about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, is among the first known attempts by Trump allies to access voting systems as they supposedly sought evidence to back up their unsubstantiated claims that such equipment had manipulated the presidential vote. It was followed a short time later by
breaches in three Michigan counties involving some of the same people and again in
a western Colorado county that Trump won handily.
Trump Team says they were hacking into voting machines looking for voter fraud? Or committing fraud?
While the county-level equipment breaches have raised alarms about
election data falling into the wrong hands and prompted two other prosecutions, they were absent from the recent
federal indictment of Trump alleging interference in the 2020 election. The Georgia case is the first to argue that the breaches were part of a conspiracy by Trump and his allies to overturn the results.
Four people face six counts related to the breach in Coffee County, including conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft and conspiracy to defraud the state. They are lawyer and Trump ally
Sidney Powell, former Coffee County elections director Misty Hampton, former Coffee County GOP Chair Cathy Latham, who also served as a false elector for Trump, and Scott Graham Hall, an Atlanta-area bail bondsman who prosecutors say is associated with longtime Trump adviser David Bossie.
I've been talking about this non stop but Republicans like to ignore that this all happened. I want to ask them, "if Biden broke into a polling place in the middle of the night and hacked into a voting machine would you believe him when he told you he was looking for evidence?