Last night, Donald Trump was indicted for the fourth time, and the charges lay out exactly what Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis believes Trump to be: an organized crime boss.¹

Trump was charged with 13 felonies related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, and 18 of his co-conspirators are charged as well, including Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, and John Eastman.² The charges are all damning, but one stands out above the rest.

Trump is being charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act statute in Georgia, more commonly known as RICO.³ If that word rings a bell, it's probably because you've heard it in a mafia movie, as RICO is most often used in cases involving organized crime. And that's exactly what this effort was.

There are two important differences between this indictment in Georgia and the federal indictments Trump is currently facing. First, the RICO charge in Georgia is the first charge in any of the indictments that comes with a mandatory minimum sentence, five years in prison.⁴ Second, unlike the federal indictments, Trump will have no way to make this case in Georgia go away or pardon himself from the charges—even if he wins the 2024 election.⁵

MoveOn is determined to ensure Trump not only loses the 2024 election but that he is also finally held accountable for his crimes—and to the fullest extent of the law. That will require us to run the largest presidential election campaign in our 25-year history, and we can do it only with your help.

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John, before this year, no president or former president of the United States had ever been charged with a crime.

After so many years of getting away with his crimes scot-free, it finally seems that the chickens are coming home to roost.

And yet, Trump is still the unrivaled front-runner for the Republican nomination, and polling has him in a dead heat with President Biden in a general election matchup.⁸

That means the work MoveOn is doing to hammer home the message to voters about Trump's criminality and disqualification from holding public office could not be more important.

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