Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profile of a racketeering case. Thats where willis gained her fame as a local prosecutor. You often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy. To make out that case you have to esta conspirators. Few crimes are on a predicate crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. In this case theyre likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. Thats the most likely thing here. The problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were design
donald trump. and these prosecutors don t care as much as prosecutors generally do about having the convictions reversed on appeal. that will happen after the election, which only goes to prove what i ve been arguing now for months. if you re going after the man who is running against your incumbent president you darn well better have the strongest case possible and these are among the four at least three of them, three weakest cases i ve ever seen against any candidate we don t know about the fourth but it seems like it s very much like the d.c. case. and if you re going after the man running for president against your person, you have to have the strongest case. otherwise it becomes a banana republic. anybody can prosecute anybody and we are opening the door to prosecution of democrats by republicans, republicans by democrats, it s what alexander hamilton wrote in the federalist
they have never relented whether it was the obama administration or the, administrative state at doj and then democrats in congress and they have never stopped trying to pervert our cherished judicial system to take care of a political enemy, and of course, stephen makes a good point will be republicans. you know, part of the problem for donald trump is that he s also taken on republicans and he s overhauled the republican party and by doing that, he has drawn enemies in this case in georgia. you ve got political hacks down in georgia testifying with political motivation against donald trump in this case. openly admitting that they hate donald trump and that s why they re testifying. this is, this entire thing is a
crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. in this case they re likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. that s the most likely thing here. the problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were designed for the mob but they have been used far beyond the mob. the problem is how they re being used in this context. this is an election challenge in a state that had a razor thin margin roughly 11,000 votes is really nothing in the state of this size so during those days following the presidential election, the trump campaign was alleging that machines were manipulated, that there were all types of wrongdoing. they lost those claims.
same topic because i think this is very crucial here. in other words, the fact that we are talking about things that i don t think most americans a whole lot of. that s why is this a rico case, why is this a racketeering case, why did they post this earlier on the web site. in your mind having been an a.g. what is the thinking behind this? yes. two primary thoughts. first of all what greg just said is important but this is also being done to catapult the prosecutor s political career don t forget that. and then second, for 5 and a half years i was a u.s. attorney. i signed indictments personally. whenever the grand jury true bills, you know, i made sure i signed those presentments to the grand jury and those indictments and that said i can tell you rico cases are by far the hardest cases and you want to bring them and we tried to