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conversations with jack smith s team as well as conversations with people speaking with trump in those time days of the administration are so important. it s why it s so important to jack smith to be able to gather as much material as possible, speaking to what trump actually believed about the outcome of the election including, of course, in georgia. and to andrew s point from the prior segment this isn t necessarily dispositive, of course, as to whether or not smith makes charging decisions, but in the case of fani willis for this solicitation conversation, trump s state of mind is going to be really important. well, i mean, claire, you talked about the defenses. it is nonsensical that his defense could be the chairman of his campaign and the state republican governor brian kemp and republican trump backer brian raffensperger, his republican governor gabe sterling were lying when they told him they counted the votes three times.
this statute, which involves a violation of peoples civil rights is something that people think about when they are looking at infringement on people s right to vote, so it was an obvious fit here. as soon as we learned that donald trump was trying to influence georgia s two bit governor, brian kemp, that he called secretary of state, brian raffensperger. and he was trying to interview with the count of the electoral votes in georgia. and to your point, the evidence has only gotten better since then. it seems very likely now that georgia was not the only state. there is a clear body of case law under the statute for these sorts of violations, and something that prosecutors will want in the situation, they won t be looking for novel legal theories, or new approaches, they will want tried and true sorts of strategies that had been affirmed in the past, following convictions in the courts of appeals. they want something that will hold up. glenn, other charges include
Trump’s comments mark his first public appearance since the 37-count federal indictment was unsealed on Friday afternoon, accusing the former president of obstructing the FBI investigation by instructing aides to ignore a grand jury subpoena and conceal the documents.