Thread by @WashSpec

Now @washspec: Once Trump and his associates are understood as members of a gang engaged in organized crime, there is much more to look at than what’s covered even in the Georgia case. Other states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, have RICO laws.

These venues could now consider whether Trump has committed crimes in their states, from his actions in 2020 alone. New York and Florida have RICO laws, too, as does New Jersey, home to one of Trump’s golf clubs, where he is also alleged to have committed frauds.

Legal authorities in each of these states should probe Trump’s actions, and those of anyone else who has participated and profited from Trump’s racketeering. The scope could encompass his private sector co-conspirator, his co-conspirator lawyers, and co-conspirator consultants.

It could also include his co-conspirator fund-raisers – even politicians who have corruptly participated in and in many instances economically benefited from Trump’s criminal activities. Trump’s conspiracies have been exceedingly broad, and carried out over a long period of time.

These conspiracies also cover the activities of 30 unindicted co-conspirators, who appear to have cooperated and received immunity deals, as well as the 19 ones she indicted. The proper instrument, RICO-based indictments, could finally corral the enormity of these crimes.

How far-ranging? A lot of the most serious organized crime these days crosses national borders, even continents. To date, not a single criminal case has been brought against Trump in connection with any of his international business activities.

Is it possible that his business dealings with the Saudis and the Emiratis, like his dealings with the Russians, were all “perfect,” like his phone call to try to extort Ukraine to help him politically against Joe Biden? (Attempted extortion is a federal crime.)

(Extorition is also a predicate offense for a federal RICO case.) Or his “perfect” call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, which now forms a central part of the Smith and the Willis indictments?

Is it possible, or even probable, that Trump used the classified documents he maintained at Mar-a-Largo to support his commercial arrangements with one or more Middle Eastern states, as some have theorized?

Could Trump have formed alliances with fellow gangsters who have achieved wealth and power in other countries?

There are great gaps in the information publicly 
available on what benefits Trump has received from the Saudis in connection with their use of his golf courses through the LIV tournament and their de facto takeover of the PGA.

Some facts are visible: the Saudis do seem to have made a $2 billion investment in Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, beginning right after Kushner left his work at the White House in early 2021, with the Emiratis and the Qataris kicking in another few hundred million each.

Another Persian Gulf country, Oman, is reported to have its own $4 billion deal with Trump. With Middle Eastern potentates and maybe other gangsters, deep into Trump and his family members, exemplified by Kushner, the question of whether the leading candidate for President...

...in the Republican party is also acting criminally in his relationships with one or more foreign governments or their agents is worth serious, and urgent, investigative attention, given the mere 15 months before our next Presidential elections.