Instead of the IANAL, IAAL, and for the last year – at least – on this site, I’ve demanded to know why the feds were not going after Trump for wire fraud. Indeed, the case I most often used was Georgia. Why weren’t Trump’s calls into Georgia in an attempt to get officials to reverse the certification not charged by the U.S. attorney in Georgia for wire fraud (which covers more than money)?

Why wasn’t the money Trump raised off lies charged??? The triple boost in small letters? The automatic payments bimonthly? Why?

Now, according to Maggie Haberman, Jack Smith is looking at charging Trump for wire fraud. From Mediaite:

As they investigate former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, federal prosecutors have also been drilling down on whether Mr. Trump and a range of political aides knew that he had lost the race but still raised money off claims that they were fighting widespread fraud in the vote results, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Led by the special counsel Jack Smith, prosecutors are trying to determine whether Mr. Trump and his aides violated federal wire fraud statutes as they raised as much as $250 million through a political action committee by saying they needed the money to fight to reverse election fraud even though they had been told repeatedly that there was no evidence to back up those fraud claims.

Not only was there no evidence that there was a problem with the election, the money wasn’t used to stop the pretend steal!

"All three areas overlap, and could inform prosecutors’ thinking about whether to proceed with charges in an investigation in which witnesses are still being interviewed." https://t.co/cLJHQpw8FC

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2023

The prosecutors are looking at the inner workings of the committee, Save America PAC, and at the Trump campaign’s efforts to prove its baseless case that Mr. Trump had been cheated out of victory.

It made no effort! It contracted that “effort” out to people willing to do it without pay, the thousands of MAGAs outside the Capitol, and the bought/paid-for Senators within the Capitol.

Finally.