Counts against mr. Trump, handed up last night by a grand jury after a 2 1 2 year investigation conducted by District Attorney willis in georgia. Willis writes, quote, defendant donald trump lost the election. One of the states he lost was georgia. Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment Refuse to accept that trump lost. They knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Among those codefendants, some of the most wellknown people in the former president s orbit during his final days in office. Including his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, personal attorney and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, who tried to assert significant election concerns had been identified, and a string of lawyers, including john eastman, Sidney Powell and speaking to the press just before midnight, she rejected trumps accusation on social media that she was persecuting him for political reasons.
andrea. it gets complicated. these unindicted co-conspirators in the federal case still have a fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. for instance, if you wanted to use an advice of counsel defense, it would be hard to convince people who may have given advice to testify. there s no good reason to do that, because they may be charged. willis took a different approach. she charged just about everybody who could be charged. although, she has some unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in her indictment. coordinating this to your question between state and federal prosecutors is complicated. they don t have to coordinate. ideally, they do. but they don t have to. federal prosecutors can t immunize people on state charges. state prosecutors can t immunize