Overturn the results of the election here in georgia. And to support this, shes offered up a nearly 100page indictment that detail 61 acts that were part of this conspiracy across these 19 defendants. There were also 30 Unindicted Coconspirators and these allegations span 7 states and the district of columbia. While this is the fourth criminal indictment trump faces this year, this is by far the most sweeping. Rico cases are challenging. They tend to get drawn out. When you have 19 defendants and their attorneys, its easy to see how things could get drawn out for months or even years, but the District Attorney said she wants to try everyone together, and shes hoping to ask for a trial in the next six months. So former President Trump and the 18 others who have been indicted have 10 days to voluntarily surrender. How might this booking look different from the other arraignments trump has gone through . Reporter its going to look different than what we have seen at the federal level. We
what do you think? i think if she doesn t charge donald trump in this case, it s also kind of playing to politics. if you re going to go after rico criminal rank, you go after the kingpin. you don t get all the little fish and say, let the big guy go free. you start the top and try to get the soldiers behind them. the other thing is that the d.a. was elected by people in fulton county. so she has to do the work of her constituents and not the work of the federal electorate that s going to make the decision on who is president. georgia is an important state and fulton county is an important county in georgia, but i think she played this without politics and said, i have a criminal conspiracy in my district i m beginning to go after it. let me ask you. one of the things you do here most of trump s opponents for the republican nomination defending him or at the very
it s interesting, as in the documents case, there s not a real defense to the facts being offered by trump s side that i can find, but one of the things he s hit behind is free speech. he doesn t charge free speech. he has a right to say whatever he wanted. he charges the acts and something that was always clear, you know, from the outset we pieced it together, then the congressional committee went and investigated it, but what is crystal clear from this document is trump directs the fake electors plot. trump and everybody involved calls them fake because they know they re a fraud. they re knowingly in emails, texts and conversations and contemporaneous notes person trading a fraud. there s a keystones cops element to it that might have misdirected folks at the beginning, but it s so flagrant on paper. yeah. one of the things i loved about the indictment yesterday was just knocking out the free speech argument on page 2 of the indictment and saying, that s not what we re charging you
with. in free speech i mean, truch s defense has been, i just said it. i didn t actually do anything, but that is never a defense in the law. if i, you know, order you to kill someone, you know, or conspire with you to kill someone through my words or, you know, something like that, that doesn t mean that i well, it s only speech, therefore i can t be prosecuted. that s thoroughly bogus. i think more generally jack smith s indictment here is straightforward and narrow but, boy, it packs a punch. it s calculated and i feel like it s almost certainly going to result in a conviction. obviously trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence and jack smith has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. we ve seen a lot of the evidence in this indictment like what you were just referring to, the different plots and the states and the like and it seems like a very, very strong case trump will get his day in court like every other defendant but i