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warmer and more humid as we go through this week. all the details later in the programme. good morning. it s tuesday the 15th of august. the former us president donald trump has been served with a fresh set of charges accusing him of trying to overturn the results of the last us presidential election. he and 18 others have been indicted in the state of georgia on counts that include racketeering and forgery. mr trump has previously denied any wrongdoing and said the case was politically motivated. the investigation has centred on claims the former president pressured georgia state officials into rejecting legitimate votes. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia s racketeering and corrupt organisations act through participation in a criminal enterprise to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donaldj enterprise to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald] trump to thieve the presidential term of office beginning onjanu ....
of election fraud. let s run through extracts of that call starting with the debunked claims from the former president about suitcases of ballots the president also made claims about so called dead voters. brad raffensperger did push back in his call with president trump here s a series of further extracts. and in the most explicit part of the call trump spelled out how many voters he needed. stephen loosley an analyst in us politics at the united states studies centre in sydney laid out the legal dilemmas mr trump now faces. it s a very serious indictment for a number of reasons. firstly, it is racketeering charge under georgia state law and racketeering legislation is modelled on the originalfederal legislation is modelled on the original federal legislation that was designed to bring down the mafia. the problem that donald trump faces is generally a conviction under legislation in georgia leads to a prison sentence, it is not certain that is the probabili ....
good afternoon. he s running for the white house again next year, but now donald trump is facing a fourth set of criminal charges. this time he s accused of trying to overturn his defeat in the last presidential election in the state of georgia. the 13 counts against him include violating georgia s law on racketeering. he is also charged with conspiracy to commit forgery and with making false statements. he says the charges are politically motivated. from washington, sean dilley. hello, ma am. thank you. this was the moment fulton county judge robert mcburney approved the grand jury s decision to indict donald trump and 18 alleged conspirators on racketeering charges the same laws used to persue mob bosses. prosecutors say their investigation was in part prompted by this leaked call between the then president and georgia s top election official, brad raffensperger. among donald trump s co defendants, his former white house chief of staff mark meadows and his former at ....