there was massive election fraud that they knew were false. computer trespass, this is the brand new story about the breach of the voting systems. if you do that, not surprisingly, that s a driem. so if they can prove that, those people will be convicted. then forgery of documents. this goes to the fake elector scheme. they got together people that claim they were trump electors. so rico is count one. possible these could be easerier to prove. we ll have to wait and see. at least on paper you think the standard is a little lower. the other thing here, all the defendants, it s not just trump. there are 19 defendants in all. here s all of them. but let s break them down into categories. trump is his own category, but mark meadows, he s not charged in jack smith s case. he s not one of the coconspirators. he is charged here in a limited capacity.
they are attempts at covering trump s defeat. 12 of the acts are trump tweets. those 161 acts fall into eight main categories according to prosecutors, lying to georgia state legislators, lying to state official to pressure them to break their oaths of office, setting up fake slates of trump electors, harassing and intimidating georgia election worker ruby freeman. legitimating baseless claims of fraud, pressuring mike pence to stop the certification, breaking into voting machines in georgia and other states and trying to cover it up by committing false statements and perjury.
present the case to a grand jury. several witnesses say they ve been called to testify, including georgia s former lt. governor geoff duncan and george chidi, a journalist and fox atlanta contributor who stumbled into a meeting of alternate trump electors at the state capitol. trump has signaled he expects to be indicted but denies any wrongdoing. we don t take plea deals because i did nothing wrong. reporter: campaigning in iowa this weekend, he stood firm in his false claims about the last election. a lot of bad things took place during that election. reporter: the grand jury getting ready to convene here, they put these orange barriers around the courthouse. by tomorrow, the street in front will be closed. the prospect of an indictment in a fourth case for trump does not appear to be hurting him politically. he has a big lead, according to the polls, against his republican rivals. and he campaigned this weekend in iowa, boasting of a big lead. linsey. aaron katersky, our t
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