Disgraced lawyer and newly-indicted felon Rudy Giuliani claims he shouldn’t be prosecuted under RICO laws because he didn’t commit old-fashioned “mob”-style racketeering. “In any event, there would have had to have been magic words there, words like, ‘if you don’t do it, I’m gonna break your legs.’ ‘If you don’t do it, I’m gonna shoot your wife.” Those are the [RICO] cases I prosecuted. Not cases where people are persuading, people are debating, people are even arguing.”
As a reminder of what threats were made, here is what Donald Trump said to Brad Raffensperger when he believed Raffensperger wasn’t going to help his plot: “You know what they did and you’re not reporting it. You know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. That’s a big risk.”