by Don Fredrick, The Complete Obama Timeline, ©2023
(Aug. 16, 2023) — The Georgia indictments against Trump are not only ridiculous on their face, they make practicing law next to impossible. Asking lawyers for advice and opinions is not criminal. Asking an attorney for advice or planning legal strategy with him is not a conspiracy. If Trump believes he won the election and that vote fraud gave Biden the victory (and why wouldn’t he have believed that?), he had every right to ask his attorneys for advice on how to contest the fraud. “Well, we could try this…” one attorney might have said. Another might have said, “No, I suggest this approach…” Still another might have advised, “I think our best option is…” Those discussions were most certainly not acts of conspiracy or attempts to defraud the United States or the voters! They were simply discussions of potential ways to address the issue of vote fraud that millions of Americans believe resulted in a stolen election.
If attorneys can be charged merely for giving advice to clients, that means no person charged with murder could ever be advised, “I suggest you plead insanity…” or asked, “Do you have an alibi for the date and time of the murder?” Merely giving a client advice or options and discussing strategies would be illegal!
Further, the same absurd “conspiracy” arguments could be used against Hunter Biden. After all, did his attorneys not give him advice on how to respond to the charges against him? Would they have said to him, “Just plead guilty and go to jail”? Of course not! No, they would have said, “What was your state of mind when you filled out that gun purchase application?” “Could you have been confused about when you had last used illegal drugs?” “Could you have been confused about how you disposed of the gun?” “Did you simply forget to pay income taxes or were they some extenuating circumstances?” “Let us see if we can work something out with the prosecutors and arrange a plea deal.” If Trump’s discussions with his attorneys could be classified as a “conspiracy,” then so could Hunter Biden’s discussions with his attorneys. In fact, so would almost any discussions between anyone accused of a crime and his attorneys.
A fair judge would immediately toss out the indictments against Trump and his 18 “co-conspirators” on the basis of their absurdity. If the case continues and Trump is convicted, the entire legal world will be turned upside down.