Georgia Lawmaker Touts 'Foolproof' Plan To Set Trump Free 

State Senator Colton Moore, a Georgia Republican, is touting a "foolproof" way he claims can help former President Donald Trump amid his ongoing legal battles in Georgia related to the 2020 election.

In August, a grand jury voted to indict Trump and 18 others over alleged attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results, charging the former president and every other co-defendant with violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Many of the 19 indicted have accepted plea deals and agreed to testify. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 13 counts he faces.

While speaking with Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast on Thursday, Moore discussed how Georgia Republicans could help Trump saying, "I'm working on a piece of legislation called the Stop Political Persecutions Act and this thing is going to be foolproof."

"RICO in the state of Georgia does not have a monetary component like most states do. Some say if we added a monetary component to Georgia's RICO, well, you know, Trump and everybody's been indicted on election stuff, not monetary stuff. What is monetary stuff? Well, that's you know when you are going after drug dealers, organized crime, you can prove they were trying to make some money. Well, that's not the case in this," Moore said.

Continuing, Moore said: "You know, if that doesn't work, because some people could argue that maybe Trump was trying to make money by getting elected," Moore continued, "we are going to list out every single charge that these people have been indicted with and just say those charges are not going to be associated with RICO anymore. And therefore, that would retroactively drop the charges. Fani Willis would be done. And it only would take a simple majority vote.

"All we need is 29 votes of 33 Republicans, and we could get this done, and we would set Trump free," Moore concluded.

Georgia's RICO statute defines racketeering much more broadly than federal law and requires less to prove a pattern of racketeering activity than the federal statute. It has proven to be an instrumental tool for prosecutors who can string together separate crimes committed by different people towards some common goal or purpose.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has also said she likes using the RICO statute because it "allows a prosecutor's office and law enforcement to tell the whole story."

Meanwhile, Moore has previously been critical of Willis and even called for an emergency session to review her actions. In a post to X, formerly Twitter, in August, Moore said "America is under attack. I'm not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET political opponents."

Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade told Newsweek via email on Thursday, "It seems highly unlikely to me that the governor would sign into law legislation that waters down the state's RICO statute just to give favorable treatment to Donald Trump."

McQuade continued, "Also, the indictment charges Donald Trump not just with RICO, but with 12 other counts alleging conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to impersonate a public official, conspiracy to solicit a public official to violate their oath of office, conspiracy to submit false documents, and other crimes. Changing the RICO law will not affect those charges."

Newsweek has also reached out to Trump's campaign and Moore via email for additional comment.