.MaddowBlog: The criminal investigation into former President Trump has proceeded to the point at which his lawyers have met in person with a prosecutor's office in Georgia.
,"All the Democrats want to do is put people in jail.... They are destroying people's lives, which is the only thing they are good at." The Republican went on to insist that district attorneys, attorneys general, and"Dem Law Enforcement" are"out of control."
rhetorically a day later,"Is it possible that the former president recently received an unpleasant briefing from his legal team?"at the top of last night's show. Let's just go ahead and quote the A block directly: Georgia's Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, that he wanted someone to"find" enough votes to flip the state in the then-president's favor, the will of the voters be damned.
It wasn't long before prosecutors in Georgia started thinking along the same lines: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened a criminal investigation into alleged violations of state election law — which seemed quite sensible, since trying to interfere with the lawful administration of an election is a crime.