Counts against mr. Trump, handed up last night by a grand jury after a 2 1 2 year investigation conducted by District Attorney willis in georgia. Willis writes, quote, defendant donald trump lost the election. One of the states he lost was georgia. Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment Refuse to accept that trump lost. They knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Among those codefendants, some of the most wellknown people in the former president s orbit during his final days in office. Including his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, personal attorney and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, who tried to assert significant election concerns had been identified, and a string of lawyers, including john eastman, Sidney Powell and speaking to the press just before midnight, she rejected trumps accusation on social media that she was persecuting him for political reasons.
career. will it help him or hurt him in 2024? just as the other cases, trump has framing his own version for the public. last night, he attacked the d.a. as a, quote, very corrupt district attorney who campaigned and raised money on, i will get trump. this morning, he said to stay tuned for a press conference next monday at bedminster where he says he will lay out a detailed and irrefuable report on the fraud that he still claims exists. his lawyers called the indictment flawed and unconstitutional and said the grand jury presentation relied on witnesses who harbor their own personal and political interests. just as in the other three cases, donald trump and his political team are fund-raising off the charges. it is part of his effort to gin up support and gin up cash to
many times as we use the word unprecedented? yeah. we are in this bizarre moment, of course, where the unprecedented has become routine. we have seen this four times already. there s no question that the country has gotten oddly accustom to it. it s another week, another indictment. here we go. i think there is a fatigue factor that they have seen, one consultant told me he hears voters for them, it s white noise. they can t make a distinction between the cases. all they know is trump is in trouble. they come back to their pre-indictment views of him. either they think he is being persecuted unfairly or they think he is a serial criminal who is finally being brought to justice. they are not spending a lot of time on the details of it. a lot of people thought the indictments if there was going to be an indictment, that would pull him down.
launch into a gop 2.0, one that focuses on policies that matter, not lies, not tweets, policies that meet america at the kitchen table. that s what this is all about. let s have a discussion about the facts. if we have a discussion about the facts, i like the outcome. do you see it that way, congressman? do you think that will happen? i think ultimately what we as republicans need to do if we re going to win the white house in november of 2024 is to talk about the issues that americans care about and try to get away from the trump indictments and the scandalous nature of the accusations surrounding this president. we need to talk about the border. we need to talk about inflation. we need to talk about crime in the streets. those are issues that republicans are strong on and need to run on. this is a really difficult distraction to try to win the white house, and especially when
have to show is that these people were all engaged in overarching criminal effort. overarching enterprise and organization. and that s obviously a loaded and important charge. it is another way in which this indictment is very ambitious. this indictment is very far reaching in what it accuses people of, and that all the types of behavior it says was part of that criminal effort. devlin barrett, joyce vance, thank you very much. and coming up in our next hour of special coverage, critical differences, why the georgia indictment against former president trump could end up having much more staying power than even the two federal indictments he faces. plus, what s the georgia trial going to look like on tv? and what that could mean both legally and politically for somebody who is running for president again. you re watching special coverage of the indictment of donald trump, right here on msnbc. ictm trump, right here on msnbc sometimes jonah wrestles with falling asleep. .so he takes