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Those saying DeSantis or Biden won't win may be interested in this article about the Georgia case.

Donald Trump should fear this latest case the most, because he can’t get out of it

The former US president faces the humiliation of a mugshot for the first time – and he won’t be able to get a pardon if convicted

Donald Trump has been charged with his fourth criminal case – and it’s the one he should fear the most.

The former US president has been indicted in Georgia with running a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Across 13 counts, the Fulton County district attorney alleged a wide-ranging plot to help Mr Trump stay in power illegally after he lost to Joe Biden.

The indictment goes much further than the separate case being brought by special counsel, Jack Smith, for similar alleged crimes.

In Atlanta, it isn’t just Mr Trump that is being accused: his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his former White House attorney John Eastman are among the 18 other defendants.

The scale of the indictment is so broad that John Dean, the former White House counsel during Richard Nixon’s administration called it “much bigger than Watergate“.

All 19 of the accused could be put on trial at the same time like a mob prosecution, which is fitting as the law under which they were charged, called the Rico Act, was designed exactly for that purpose.

Why should Mr Trump fear this case the most? Simple: he can’t get out of it.

Mr Trump can’t get his political allies to pardon him, including a future Republican president, or himself, were he to win the 2024 election.

The Georgia case would be handled under the state system and Georgia law does not allow the governor to pardon defendants convicted of state crimes, unlike the majority of America.

That is why the case unfolding at the court in Atlanta matters so much: it could be the one that really sticks.

Another big difference is that in this case there is a mandatory minimum sentence for the Rico counts: at least five years with a maximum of 20 years.

For a defendant like Mr Trump who, remarkably, doesn’t have a criminal record, that will be chilling.

Then there’s the public shaming that comes with this case as there will be, for the first time, a mugshot of Mr Trump after he is booked.

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