Last week, ex-president Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia for a range of serious crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 coup attempt and larger nationwide plot to overturn the 2020 election. Trump and his co-defendants are being charged under Georgia's racketeering laws, which are typically used to combat organized crime and other complex criminal organizations. If convicted of violating Georgia's RICO laws, Trump and his codefendants will have to serve a minimum of five years in prison. The charges in Georgia come after Trump was indicted and arrested in Washington, D.C. for his alleged crimes in connection to Jan. 6. In total, Trump faces hundreds of years in prison for the range of crimes he has now been charged with.
Pro-democracy Americans were jubilant in response to these events. With the criminal indictments in Georgia, those jubilant voices were even louder and more joyous and rapturous.
