georgia have a real echo to the evidence you developed about trump and rudy giuliani and the conversations republican officials in arizona. talk about how her indictment built on the work of the committee. the bones have been established for a while. the committee laid them out. i keep going out to liz cheney s very powerful opening statement in our hearings about the multi-part intentional plan that s laid out in this indictment. in addition, though, to the bones, there s a lot of meat that she adds. right, they re tebs messages, they re tweets that the president issues, there are phone communications, there are visits to ruby freeman s house. there s more detail in this lengthy indictment. we do keep coming back to the same core scheme. we dress this now in the sort of wrapping of a racketeering
official, jeffrey clark. the charge sheet refers to the defendants as a quote criminal organization . the indictment document says mr trump knowingly and willingly joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in georgia, and elsewhere. it s the fourth case brought against mr trump this year. let s take a listen to what fulton county district attorney fani willis said. the indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal, racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia s presidential election result. subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, the grand jury
analyst, elie honig, who was a mob prosecutor which pertains to what i m about to ask you. we re getting word out of georgia where nick valencia is just there that fani willis, is fulton county da may ruse racketeering charges to go after donald trump. yeah. i know rico because i follow mob trials and listen to your podcast. how does that apply here? so, rico stands for racketeer influence corrupt organizations started as a federal law passed in 1970 designed to fight organized crime and now used first of all, various states passed their own version including georgia. now it s used to prosecute any type of organized criminal group. can be a political group. can be a street gang, drug trafficking organization. it s being used more and more broadly. generally speaking under rico laws as a prosecutor you have to show two things. first of all the existence of racketeering enterprise. meaning a group, doesn t have to
teflon don. so, we ll have to see. but if you talk about the mob parallel, the georgia case that fanny wells is bringing, the prosecutor down there, it is built under the state s racketeering laws. so, basically she s charging donald trump and others acting in concert as a racketeering enterprise that was engaged in criminal activity on multiple fronts to overturn a fairly don election in violation of the law. so, the parallels are there. also, all the sort of the skull dugger ri of spending people to try to check to see if the security cameras can be wiped clean. it s all just so sort of poorly handled. i mean, you would think, this is a former president of the united states, and the people he s relying on is, you know, this so, there s a reason. there s a reason for that. i talked to two sources today who know their way very well around the trump organization and its mechanics.
to the trump lawyers, as they kind of come off the defense team one and two at a time saying, you know, off the record to people or on background, you know, i just couldn t stay there because, you know, he s not letting his lawyers be lawyers. so, there are the similarities. but if he beats, you know, three indictments and a couple more are coming, he really is the teflon don. so, we ll have to see. but if you talk about the mob parallel, the georgia case that fani willis is bringing, the prosecutor down there, it is built under the state s racketeering laws. so, basically she s charging donald trump and others acting in concert as a racketeering enterprise that was engaged in criminal activity on multiple fronts to overturn a fairly don election in violation of the law. so, the parallels are there. also, all the sort of the skulduggery of spending people to try to check to see if the security cameras can be wiped