York city. Where we are just hours away from former president donald j trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern he is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. , where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight dawn forsman is preparing, setting up barricades outside the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States of america. Today trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense that the Indictment Strikes at the former president right for free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech . Its criminalizing speech for this reason, what the president saw in the 2020 election was all these irregularities going on, he had the right to comment on
Proceeding, and conspiring against the rights of voters. It ties these to the violent attack of trumps voters at the capitol on january 6th. Special counsel jack smith spoke on that after it was filed. It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, a nations process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the president ial election. The men and women of Law Enforcement who defended the u. S. Capital on january 6th, are our heroes. They are patriots, and they are the very best of us. Since the attack on our capitol, the Department Justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day. This case has brought consistent with that commitment, and our investigation evander individuals continues. The indictment names trump as the only defendant, but it describes six coconspirators working with him to contest joe bidens win in 2020. Trump, no surpris
Journalconstitution, efforts to overturn Georgia Election detailed in new trump indictment. And the news, he made knowing late false claims about michigan election indictments. The milwaukee journal sent a wisconsin Fake Electors Scheme at the center of donald trump indictment. The philadelphia inquirer, what to know about the pennsylvania Fake Electors mentioned in trumps third indictment. The criminal conspiracy alleged in this new indictment of donald trump had the biggest and gravest National Ambitions to hold on to the presidency against the will of the voters. The conspiracy itself played out in localities across the country, in what we now call the fake elector scheme. A scheme in which republican electors in states that joe biden won, signed their names to forged documents pretending that it was actually donald trump who won the president ial election in the states. At the time, as it was actually playing out in december of 2020, it mostly looked like sort of sad theatrical fro
January 6th, and the capital plaza, where rioters stormed the barricade to stop the peaceful transition of power. The court room that trump was in todays the very same room where numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominick box, a Qanon Activist Who Livestreamed the storming of the capital and jarred wise, a former fbi agent whos charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. So this was all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now that were no Courtroom Cameras today. But thanks to Courtroom Sketch bill hennessy, we know what it looked like when a former president of the United States appear in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. It was more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment, including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases. Judges who showed up today in
Show up. Theyre underway. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Donald j trump is already facing serious legal trouble on multiple fronts. But he may soon be fighting a whole battle, other criminal investigations move closer to the possible indictment face. There are signs special counsel they could be closing in on charges related to efforts of the 2020 election. They posted this about smith. Quote, i assume an indictment will be coming out in the day now. And well campaigning this weekend, he estimated the false claim, also known as a lie that any potential charges against him we politically motivated. They waited two and a half almost three years its right the middle my president ial election. Its election interference. Its a great badge of honor. Because i am being indicted for you. Meanwhile, the classified Documents Case is moving forward. It is now been four days since that superseding indictment was filed. This morning they knows codefendant, the maralago Property Defend