agents who are sworn to protect donald trump as the ex-president. i think you ll see greater involvement with his processing than with any of the other defendants. now to the charges. trump is facing 13 charges in this georgia indictment. perhaps the biggest threat he s facing is the racketeering or rico charges. help people understand the reach of this racketeer influenced corruption organizations or rico law. and why should trump s legal team be worried about it? they should be worried. this is a very serious matter. georgia s rico statute was passed in 1980, ten years after the federal statute. the georgia statute is much broader in its application and grasp of various crimes. there are 161 separate incidents mentioned in this indictment. all of those are going to play into creating the story about
but certainly if you re going to lay out all the participants, all the facts in the way that this fulton county indictment does, all 95 pages of it, then he s going to be included because he was very much a participant in what they ve charged as a racketeering enterprise. and one of the things that also struck me is how well these facts fit that georgia statute, which is normally used for organized crime. but here you have kind of a sprawling organized criminal effort to overturn the election, and tying in all of these elements showing how they fit together, showing how some worked independently but nonetheless were part of the overall scheme to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power makes that georgia indictment pretty powerful. given the fact that mark meadows is not named in the federal indictment, there are questions in trump s orbit by pretty much everyone who covers this of whether or not he s cooperating. of course we can t say for sure.
charged as a racketeering enterprise. and one of the things that also struck me is how well these facts fit that georgia statute, which is normally for organized crime. but here you had kind of a sprawling organized criminal effort to overturn the election. and tying in all of these elements, showing how they fit together, showing how some work independently but nonetheless were part of the overall scheme to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power make that georgia indictment pretty powerful. given the fact that mark meadows is not named in the federal indictment, there are questions in trump s orbit by pretty much everyone who covers this about whether or not he s cooperating. of course, we can t say for sure. but if he is, and jack smith is relying on him, that could cause some complications here. do you believe that the state should have deferred to the federal prosecution, given the federal indictment was already issued? you know, i was listening to your discussion with g
an aggressive way to charge an individual. but, i think we have in our heads that rico racketeering, if it s corrupt organizations and prosecutions, are for mafia families and so on. and the way the georgia statute is written, it s broader than the federal statute, as we also heard talked about here. and perhaps, all these things can be brought in. but all these questions, including that removal of the federal courtroom, which i m not totally agree with either view on either. it may actually end up staying in georgia state court. it s just, a complicated legal question that no one touched yet. and, it s going to be litigated. can i just say for the record? when you listen to that phone call asking for those 11,780 votes. it sounds an awful lot like mafia case. yeah. and that is for a jury, a kind of crystal clear piece of evidence. i ve represented gangsters, they re a lot more vague than that. [laughter] but even if it s not mafioso talk or whatever, that is not a president
started back in june of 2020, culminated in the election, and continued on through the january 6th, or even today. there is at least an argument, that there was a continuing course of conduct. i m with you, it is an aggressive way to charge an individual. i think we have, in our heads, that rico racketeering, whether the trump organization, prosecutions are for mafia families and so on. and the way the georgia statute is written, it s broader than the federal statute, as we also talked about here. perhaps all these things can be brought in. all of these questions, including that removal from federal court, which i m not totally in agreement with either view on, it may actually end up staying in georgia state court. it s just a complicated legal question that no one touched yet. it s going to be litigated. can i just say for the record, when you listened to that phone call, asking for those 11,780 votes, it sounds