What it means for Donald Trumps former lawyer. Seemingly not moving the needle for 2024. How this will all play out on the Campaign Trail as The 11th Hour gets underway on this tuesday night good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. Former president Donald J Trump now has ten days to surrender to face allegations he and 18 other people were behind a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to reverse the 2020 Election Results in the State Of Georgia. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday, the 25th day of august, 2023. Tonight, georgia officials said its expected that trump and his codefendants will be booked at the Fulton County jail. The 41 count indictment, unsealed late, late last night, describes a wide ranging plot that went beyond the infamous find me 11,000 votes phone call. According to da fani willis, it also included the appointment of fake electors, efforts to access voting machines, harassment of an election worker, an
January 6th certification process. The electors plot is one of the schemes that spans from trumps early efforts in the states to Wider National efforts to create confusion about the results, and it went all the way up to mike pence, all the way up to an attempted, ultimately thwarted pretext that was going to be presented by pence to help stage a coup on jan 6th. In essence it involved Fraudulent Electors or getting states to appoint Trump Electors in the states that biden won or was winning and try to send those to congress. Unlike some of the other plots that weve covered, this ones already at the center of three different cases, including indictments by dojs jack smith, plus the probes in michigan and now georgia, where d. A. Fani willis just charged several Trump Lawyers and aides for these types of plots as part of the larger rico conspiracy. That is why tonights scoop, this video, may be of interest in the two big cases led by these tough prosecutors who mean business. The defend
We are expecting to hear from President Joe Biden in just a few moments in milwaukee, but first Donald Trumps fourth indictment arrived last night and its the case many in his orbit have been the most worried about. In no small part because several members of his team are also charged. The former president now ensnared in whats known as a rico case in georgia alongside some of his closest advisers like mark meadows and Rudy Giuliani over efforts to overturn joe bidens 2020 win in georgia. The 98page indictment includes conspiracy and racketeering charges. Trump and the 18 other defendants have ten days to surrender to georgia authorities. And the d. A. Wants the trial to start within six months and she wants to try all 19 of them in one go. Cnns sara murray is outside the courthouse in atlanta. Sara, this is a rico case. This is something thats usually against the mob, against gangs. Tell us more. Reporter Fulton County District Attorney fani willis has made very clear she likes this r
Happening now in the newsroom, a heartbreaking loss for u. S. Womens soccer. Off the post sweden can win on this kick. Plus one on one with Donald Trumps lawyer who claims trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election were aspirational, not criminal. And lost at sea for two days in a boat only 12 feet long. Well show you the incredible rescue. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday, im fredricka whitfield. Donald trumps lawyer doubling down that trump was within his First Amendment rights when he told former Vice President mike pence not to certify the election results. The Attorney Says it all boils down to the way he asked. And all of this played out in the open. Its all free speech. There was a Supreme Court decision that says when youre exercising free speech, youre not engaging in a fraud on the government. Unfortunately most people dont understand thats just one example of the actions. Its very political. Thats just one
During his arraignment not to influence a jury or try to intimidate witnesses or anyone else involved in the case in any way. With this third indictment, donald trump now stands accused of numerous Crimes Involving his conduct from before, during, and after his presidency. Theres been a lot of legal activity surrounding the former president over the past few months. But, the historic nature of this moment should not be lost in any of us. We are seeing the rails of justice turning as they should to address the attempted coup that many of us watched unfold in realtime back on january 6th. The former president s coconspirators to move the sticks to this to the port. Hard to deceive and convince many people for many different walks of life to go along with their plan. The fake electors had to convince fake documents. Members of congress had to persuade to stand up and object to the certification of certain states votes. The supporters they called to gathering, washington d. C. , on january