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Today’s Brew has a little peach syrup. Georgia peach.

UPDATE: “I Am Only Human” Fulton County Clerk Admits She Accidentally Posted Trump Indictment Documents BEFORE Grand Jury Vote

“I am only human.” In an exclusive interview with local WSB-TV, Fulton County Clerk Che Alexander admitted she accidentally published President Trump’s indictment before the Grand Jury had a chance to vote on the charges. Alexander says she hit send instead of save. 

“I did a work sample in the system. And when I hit save, it went to the press queue. It wasn’t an official document. It wasn’t official charges. It was the dry run. It was a work sample.” However, she also says she wanted to get the indictments to the public as quickly as possible.

So why release a statement calling the documents, which did have the correct case number and the exact charges that were brought against Trump “fictitious”? “That was the best word that I could come up with. It was fictitious. It wasn’t real. It didn’t have a stamp on it.” But why not just say she made an error? Alexander said “fictitious” was the word her team came up with.

You say “fictitious” when you want to pretend the grand jury wasn’t just for show. “Error” admits D.A. Fani Willis had the cart before the horse, giving Trump a possible avenue for dismissal. 

Fulton County Case is Strange.

Given what is known — factually known with no ounce of doubt — about the chaos and corruption and incompetence of the 2020 Election in Fulton County, Georgia, it always seemed absolutely bizarre that Fulton County would try to imprison President Donald Trump for saying “What the heck?” It’s Vladimir Putin arresting Ukrainians for illegally crossing his border. O.J. Simpson accusing Nicole of spousal abuse. The Houston Astros calling an L.A. Dodger a cheat.

But now the actual indictment has dropped and we are so far, so deep into Bananas Republic territory that it’d take a Navy SEAL Team and miracle of God to extract us.

A Bananas Republic has all the despotism and corruption of a two-bit banana republic, but with a heavy dose of insanity.

Donald J. Trump Indicted for Tweeting?

Yeah. In this Bananas Republic, you can’t even tweet without it being a crime.

In our late night story about the indictment we mentioned how Fulton County D.A. Fari Willis criminalized legal representation. Charging Trump lawyers John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, etc, for offering legal challenges and options Trump could try to pursue. Charging lawyers for being lawyers.

I get the temptation, but that’s not how America is supposed to roll.

However, being a lawyer isn’t the only crime Willis is creating out of whole cloth. As Libs of TikTok so aptly summarized, it is now illegal in Georgia to tweet. To suggest your followers watch a TV show.

To reserve a room for a meeting. To make a phone call.

You think I’m kidding?

Things that are apparently illegal in America:

1. Tweeting that you’re watching TV
2. Reserving rooms for meetings
3. Asking someone for a phone number

What a sham. pic.twitter.com/U8jLLN37vH

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 15, 2023

Charlie Kirk discovered it’s illegal to urge an elected official to conduct signature verification. To better assure a free and fair election tabulation.

The Georgia indictment says that advocating for robust signature verification is a conspiratorial criminal act. pic.twitter.com/wWpX6LnAEH

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 15, 2023

Look close at that. Willis is also chucking your constitutional right to petition the government.

You know what else is out the window? Telling the truth. Robert David Cheely is charged with testifying to the Georgia Senate about Fulton County lying about water main break and the woman who kept running the same ballots through the machine over and over again after the room had been cleared of GOP observers and press.

This literally happened. This is LITERALLY what was reported that night. Is this the twilight zone? pic.twitter.com/pdpG2rchvr

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) August 15, 2023

Willis calls these “false statements.” The first was all over the news, the second was on video.

D.A. Astonishingly Feigns Ignorance Over Publication of Charges Before Grand Jury Vote

The newly dolled up D.A. Fani Willis gave a press conference after the indictment was unsealed. Naturally, she was asked about the Trump charges being posted on her website before the Grand Jury had even voted. She feigned ignorance.

“No, I can’t tell you anything about what you refer to,” Willis said when asked about the posting. “What I can tell you is that we had a grand jury here in Fulton County. They deliberated till almost 8:00, if not right after 8:00, an indictment was returned. It was true billed. And you now have an indictment.”

Then she pinned the blame on her underlings.

“I am not an expert on clerks duties or even administrative duties. I wouldn’t know how to work that system. And so I’m not going to speculate. Next question.”

Okay. Here’s the question. If your county can’t even handle one two-page document without blowing it, how are we supposed to believe you handled millions of ballots without blowing it?

On Tuesday, the County Clerk released a statement trying to explain away the posting. It said, in part:

In anticipation of issues that arise with entering a potentially large indictment, Alexander used charges that pre-exist in Odyssey to test the system and conduct a trial run. Unfortunately, the sample working document led to the docketing of what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.

Got it. They accidentally published for the world to see a “sample” — a practice form, if you will — that uses pre-existing charges … that just happens to match up perfectly with the indictment that came down after the Grand Jury voted. Man, I want the person who drew up that uncanny sample to pick my Powerball numbers.

Trump Promising to Hold Major News Conference Monday to Release Report on Fulton County Election

Donald Trump announced he’ll be holding a major news conference next Monday to unveil a report on the “Presidential Election Fraud” which took place in Georgia. Here’s a fun game we can play. “Which CNN personality will dramatically force coverage away from whatever Trump is saying?”

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp insists the 2020 election was “not stolen.” Added Kemp, “For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward — under oath — and prove anything in a court of law.”

Last Word to Steve Deace

The Blaze‘s Steve Deace — who supports DeSantis — gave a beautiful, if harrowing, summation in a lengthy Twitter statement. It concludes:

Trump will now go on trial in Stacey Abrams’ home state for not being nearly as successful an “election denier” as she is. She was richly rewarded for doing exactly what Trump was accused of, and by the very same people. The same forces that told you cloth masks stop airborne contagions, your family business was non-essential, genetic serums are vaccines, men have a uterus, and Ukraine matters more than you, will now tell you urging people to watch OANN is a RICO violation. Despite the branding and belief this is all for show, I assure you this (color) revolution is very real, and it will be televised.

Along The Stream

John Zmirak drops “Barack Obama: President for Life.”

 

Al Perrotta is the Managing Editor of The Stream, chief barista for The Brew and co-author, with John Zmirak, of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration. You can follow him at @StreamingAl at GETTR, Gab, Parler, and now at TRUTH Social.