receipts on all 19 defendants. there s no way to summarize the case in one entire sitting. reeding the indictment alone takes sometime. prosecutoring one of these at trial would typically run weeks. imagine a trial with all the defendants andu talking months. so, a special report right now does not summarize the whole indictment. instead we re honing in on the key allegedly criminal plots to overturn the election results and the aides, including trump s tactics of trying to hide behind his lawyers. these are maneuvers the d.a. has now indicted as criminal. the first time this case turns infamous or controversial figures into indicted coconspirators. take trump lawyer rudy giuliani, now indicted on 13 accounts, including lying and trying to get public officials to break and law and steal the race. that s what the charges say.
theories then were more benign. donald trump is a sore loser. his feelings are hurt. give him time to absorb it. this is the toddler theory of the presidency. i don t know if you re familiar. the professor and i discussed it before. now it s pursuant to what the d.a. says is a criminal plot. that type of public stuff, while legal on its own was trying to soften the ground, get the type of superfans or, you know, propaganda victims, whatever you want to call it, to get closer to their plot, which is to stage elector fraud, edward. well, i think you re right. i don t think that any of them anticipated that the district attorney, that the prosecutor fani willis would rely on the georgia rico statute, which is pretty broad compared to the statute in other states, to bring together all of the
multipronged racketeering plot. that s how we got here. here s how all of this took off. former president donald j. trump has been criminally indicted in the state of georgia. it begins with the rico act. that s the big one, and it is broad. it s here, all 98 pages of it, and it has that infamous rico count. the grand jury issued arrest warrants for those who are charged. you re waking up to significant historic news. donald trump indicted overnight for the fourth time. this time by the state of georgia. if he were to be convicted he could not pardon himself. 18 codefendants have also been charged. his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, his former chief of staff mark meadows. the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia s presidential election result. he s now facing four different felony trials as he
for donald trump, perilous. it has been such for other rico defendants. this d.a. has used these rake tearing laws for prosecutions of gang related activity and people in completely other professions. you have to go back, because the feds struggled to deal with the group and racketeering related problems of organized crime. if you go back decades, america had a real mafia problem. it had to deal with the way different mobsters and gangsters not only operated but how they managed to keep a distance from the underlying crimes, meaning you could get this thing over here or money laundering over there or one or two people but it was hard to get them all. this goes all the way back to the 50s when then robert kennedy was leading the congressional effort to figure out how they could better tackle those problems. we have this old footage,
of the rico count, the prosecutor s able to bring that all together to paint a broader picture for the jury, for the court. but to show that they were acting in concert, that they were acting as part of the conspiracy, but with one ultimate goal. so i think that that makes it extremely powerful, and it certainly adds a lot of strengths to the case. professor? well, we ve always been talking about the idea of a speaking indictment. like, jack smith had a speaking indictment that really told a strong narrative. this rico charge gives fani willis the opportunity to have not just a speaking indictment, but a screeching indictment that tells a wide and sweeping story ability all the different acts that were in furtherance of what is essentially an alleged criminal syndicate with the former president of the united states at the top. and mr. tarver is right, some