Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
In the United States. The america i grew up in is a place where we dont put our political opponents in prison. We let the Voters Decide who is best to lead the nation. Nor did we criminalize political differences because thats what they do in repressive regimes. Russian opposition activist sinced to 19 years. Russian court finding him guilty of founding and funding an extremist organization. Laura now, after i read through this latest indictment of trump, i found myself asking how can we now really say that were any better than what were seeing in the old former soviet union . We will get to the legal farce that is this indictment in a few moment. But, right now all of you need to know something very important about this liberal Fulton County d. A. Fani willis. Now, after her unconscionablably dragging out her investigation of donald trump for about two and a half years, she was suddenly, last night, in this huge rush, desperate to get the indictment out there. So much so that she took
This is a moment in American History, the president of the United States is effectively being called in official court, as the head of a criminal enterprise. Theres been a lot of speculation about white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows who had not been previously indicted. And there was a lot of drama about his testimony, the various investigatory bodies and grand juries. And i think a lot of people thought that mark meadows is getting charged, that he is cooperating, its the president. Mark meadows is charged here as a number of Trump Lawyers. We saw Trump Lawyers named, or not named, but indicated as Unindicted Coconspirators in the federal indictment, the most recent federal indictment about trying to overturn the election results. Questions as to them not being charged but named as coconspirators. Here, they are charged. Giuliani, charged. Eastman, charged. Shes parole, shards. Clark, charged. , charged Sydney Powell, charge. Andrew weizmann has some interesting things to say. Can
Imagine how terrifying donald trump, how terrified he has to be for him to follow the advice of his lawyers. Thats how terrified donald trump is tonight. For the first time. The breaking not surprising news of the night is that donald trump was forced to announce that he will not be having a special press event on monday to, as he put it, refute the 13 criminal charges against him delivered by a Georgia Grand Jury on monday. In a written statement tonight, donald trump said rather than releasing the report on the rigged and stolen georgia 2020 president ial election on monday my lawyers would prefer putting this, i believe, irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud and irregularities informal legal filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful indictment, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary, exclamation point. That statement is, of course a lie. There is no report. Donald trump has no. Report on trumps lawyers will not be putting irrefutable and overwh
We today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law. We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone their evidence can be tested in court and judged by a jury of citizen sdpgs we look at the fact, we look at the law and we bring charges. For the fourth time in as many months donald trump, the former president of the United States, is facing a criminal indictment. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 15th. Lets dive right into the latest indictment for the former president. The charges are from Fulton County, georgia, where trump and 18 others were named in a sweeping 41count indictment targeting alleged attempts to overturn the states 2020 Election Results, Fulton County District Attorney fani willis announced the charges just before midnight. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia like every state has laws that allow those who believe that results