grand jury was impanelled in may of 2022. after seven months and 75 witnesses, they authored a report in december 2022 recommending indictments. the sprawling case has involved some of the biggest names in the trump orbit as well as some local and state-level politicians many of which you may have never heard of. district attorney willis was considering charging under georgia s racketeer, influenced and corrupt organizations act, referred to as r.i.c.o. in practical terms, racketeering is a power tool for prosecutors because it enables you to charge a group of people all together and it enables you as a prosecutor to show the jury the full extent of this group. it s normally used for the mob, the mafia, organized crime units. you don t actually have to have specific instructions from one person or the next in like a
report in december 2022 recommending indictments. the sprawling case has involved some of the biggest names in the trump orbit, as well as some local and state-level politicians, many of which you may have never even heard of. and this entire investigation stems back to a single phone district attorney willis w was referred to as rico. in practical terms racketeering is a very powerful tool for prosecutors because it enables you to charge a group of people all together and it enables you as a prosecutor to show the jury the full extent of this group. it s normally used for the mob, the mafia, organized crime units. the interesting thing about it is you don t actually have to have specific instructions from one person or the next in like a normal conspiracy. it can be as long as you re a part of this whole enterprise and you ve got a common goal,
he s easily recognizable. none of those corners are going to be done in fulton county. it s going to be circus. i think trump is going to revel in that circus. the challenge for him is that with all of the destructions he s trying to pull, at the end of the day, the this atlanta case, this fulton county case, it s ultimately going to be impacting the other cases he has. the january 6th case that jack smith has ultimately is a lot of overlap with this atlanta case. what i actually expect that ultimately he s going to find that a lot of the witnesses that testified are not going to be as enthusiastic about testifying. i think he s got a more difficult road ahead than him and his team let me ask you about that, renata, that governor kemp thinks this is going to be protected for into the future? i don t disagree with him in the sense that fani willis threw the book at donald trump. 19 defendants. every count imaginable. rico has been charged. that s a very complex sprawling case. jac
to? look at their former presidents. i keep on using the example of david kendall. so you have somebody who is the cream of the crop where anybody in the legal profession is saying, okay, that is absolutely top-notch impeccable counsel. i am not knocking todd blanche, but they are not on the same caliber. there is a reason. part of it is mary s reason. it is a service, you should get paid for it. the other is, if you are at that stage in your career where you would have somebody, like the former president, they need to take your advice. so if you have somebody who is going to end up like mr. corcoran, where you are both a lawyer and a witness, which is unbelievable, mary and i have talked about that, we just don t want to be in that position. it is unbelievable that evan corcoran is still a lawyer in this case. we have more to talk to you both about, mary and andrew,
eye-popping some. but in the same period of time, trump spent 90 million. and 30 cents of every dollar that they spent was on legal fees, and other investigation related bills. $27 million to fight his legal troubles in just the first six months of the year. a period of time when he was only facing two criminal indictments instead of the current for. those are big expenses. seemingly unsustainable expenses. now, in hearing for the federal 2020 election case in d. c. last friday, one of trump s lawyers mentioned that they planned to use volunteer lawyers to help handle the case. volunteer lawyers, presumably not the kind of lawyers who are paid, definitely cheap, and that could be the reason why they are talking about volunteer lawyers.