Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
In the United States. The america i grew up in is a place where we dont put our political opponents in prison. We let the Voters Decide who is best to lead the nation. Nor did we criminalize political differences because thats what they do in repressive regimes. Russian opposition activist sinced to 19 years. Russian court finding him guilty of founding and funding an extremist organization. Laura now, after i read through this latest indictment of trump, i found myself asking how can we now really say that were any better than what were seeing in the old former soviet union . We will get to the legal farce that is this indictment in a few moment. But, right now all of you need to know something very important about this liberal Fulton County d. A. Fani willis. Now, after her unconscionablably dragging out her investigation of donald trump for about two and a half years, she was suddenly, last night, in this huge rush, desperate to get the indictment out there. So much so that she took
Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profile of a racketeering case. Thats where willis gained her fame as a local prosecutor. You often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy. To make out that case you have to esta conspirators. Few crimes are on a predicate crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. In this case theyre likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. Thats the most likely thing here. The problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were design
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
Georgia. This week, willis, her staff and the grand jurors that did to hold Trump Accountable for her actions or verbally attacked by the former president and authorities on alert in georgia, as those attacks have echoed by Trump Supporters calling for violence on social media. And for nearly every one of trumps competitors for the 2024 republican president ial nomination, even this latest indictment has not been caused enough for a Fuel Repudiation of the former president or his actions. That may be put to the test on wednesday, as the gop holds its first primary debate without trumps participation, as he faces a friday deadline for his mandated surrender to Law Enforcement authorities in Fulton County. The politics, the people, and the peril facing them over trumps fourth and department. All of that tonight on politicsnation. But first, i want to update you on the latest happening now with Hurricane Hilary. They says hilary remains a category three, churning off Mexicos Pacific coast