The Special Counsel charges donald trump with conspireing to shatter the american experiment. The ha 45page indictment nar tat rates a plot to stay in power after losing an election. And it does so with some new evidence, including realtime notes from then Vice President mike pence. The politics, the third Trump Indictment slipped the field into familiar camps. The charges will also test joe bidens resolve to do what is sometimes unnatural. Stay quiet. The consequences, how the prosecution plays out in court may determine the future of both donald trump and american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Tomorrow a court date for the former president here in washington. Today the country gets a line by line look at The Plot Against America and the alleged crimes of donald trump. Central to the indictment is the Special Counsels assertion that trump knew that he lost the election and pushed lies to stay in office any way. Describe d in the indictment
for the most part, donald trump s competitors for the gop presidential nomination spobded to his third indictment in such a familiar way they were probably cut and pasted from previous statements and talking points. here s ron desantis responding for the first time on camera just moments ago. one of the reasons i m running for president is to it reconstitutional liez the federal government. the agencies that have become weaponized against political opponents. a d.c. jury would indict a ham sandwich and convict a ham sandwich if it was a republican ham sandch. tim scott rleagainst two different tracks of justice, referring to the prosecution of president biden s son and one call ed the indictment un-american and said he will pardon trumpf ected. and the few who have staked