And so we awaited another indictment

And sure enough, it came.

Don’t mind me. I was on indictment watch last night — first to see the actual event, and then I waited up to read the contents.

We found ourselves in front of a television and tuned into something-other-than-Fox (which was bravely pursuing a story about whether Kate Middleton is making late night phone calls to brother-in-law Harry).

(Reader? She is not.)

We found ourselves unable to turn away because we’d been promised there’d be another indictment — this one the culmination of two-and-a-half-years of work by Fani T. Willis, Fulton County (GA) district attorney.

Georgia was one of six states where the former president worked hard to overturn the free and fair 2020 presidential election, and that’s not just me talking.

At 8 p.m.:

In addition to news broadcasts, there were constant updates online, including this one from the New York Times:

At 8:49 p.m., a live feed started from within the Fulton County courtroom, as well as a live feed of the clerk of the Superior Court, Chè Alexander, seated at the criminal docket desk. Moments later, a phalanx of uniformed sheriff’s deputies walked a stack of papers (the indictment) to Alexander. She signed it, and then the deputies walked the indictment to Judge Robert C.I. McBurney, who also signed it and then gently suggested the assembled journalists leave so courthouse workers could go home.

All we knew at my regular bedtime was there were 10 indictments this particular go-round, so I, for one, stayed up until I saw the Washington Post story that said 19 people had been charged in 41 counts. Those people included, besides the former president:

Among those named in the sweeping indictment, charged under Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, architects of a scheme to create slates of alternate Trump electors.

Also indicted were two Georgia-based lawyers advocating on Trump’s behalf, Ray S. Smith II, and Robert Cheeley; a senior campaign adviser, Mike Roman, who helped plan the elector meeting; and two prominent Georgia Republicans who served as electors: former GOP chairman David Shafer and former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still.

As one can imagine, the focus of all this tax payer money was typically unhinged.

But who cares? Here’s what happens next (from The Washington Post).