Everyone. Before 9 11 and, of course, before becoming trumps wing man, a man by the name of Rudy Giuliani made his name from putting mobsters behind bars. He did so, i might add, using the very same laws that are being used against him now. Two decades ago we he actually wrote in his book on leadership, and im quoting, here i dreamed up the tactic of using the federal racketeer influence and corruptions act to prosecute the mafia leadership. Unquote. Otherwise known as rico, for those following along. At the time, the law actually was relatively new. The giuliani, he popularized it making it the model for state and federal prosecutors for decades to come when it comes to large groups attempting a type of conspiracy, including, i might add, fani willis. The Fulton County d. A. Is now charging Rudy Giuliani with several crimes for his efforts to allegedly overturn the election, including racketeering. Now, the rico laws, something that he has, well, he has championed for years. The upper
coming out of georgia. one of the big issues, of, course is that the attorney, fani willis, the prosecutor, said 19 people no problem. i can do it all in one trial and i m going to have the trial date set within six months. a lot of people ears perked up and said, wow, what is the moon like on your planet? yeah, this is going to be a tough case for her to pursue with all these defendants. they re going to try to sever under georgia law, some are going to move this to federal court, there is going to be a series of arguments about the very acts that she charged. 161 acts in the recount alone, some of them fairly early in the process of the day after the election. the president making speeches publicly, tweeting stuff out on twitter, you know a lot of these things are going to be debated about whether this is free speech, the president can debate whether or not there was fraud in the election and the this is a hard case to bring. there are a lot of really legit
losses related to his work for trump even after the election. and today he is defending himself by referencing the very work we just talked about, the work against gangsters. i m the same rudy giuliani that went after the mafia, i haven t changed one bit. the country has become fascist and communist, but i haven t. rudy giuliani, the same quest for justice. if donald trump committed a crime, i would put him in jail. well, let s get to the news tonight. former chief of staff mark meadows, who is also charged, is now trying to move his case to federal court. i want to bring in jamal joffre, a former associate wife of council to george w. bush and founder and executive director of the national security institute at george mason university. joe meal, even i have been talking about, frankly, a lot of these matters for quite some time. this was expected to have this now fourth indictment, it is
again, i think this, chris christie might. mike pence might. but i think ron desantis is a big missed opportunity, but that s the story of his entire campaign is a missed opportunity. the interesting thing is that donald trump, i think, realizes that the mar-a-lago case and now this george a case are serious and there is a precedent for it. i don t know if you remember, but way back in 2016 the access hollywood video dropped on october 7th and, man, it was devastating. i think every one, a lot of people thought trump might even drop out, but there is a debate two days later and he showed up at that debate and survived and i think he actually surprised everybody by going on the attack. and i think that debate saved his candidacy and i wonder if
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