Electronic ballot markers and tabulating machines. these defendants deny any wrong doing. charges, though, the new indictment lays out, many, many strands of these plots. this is important here. the d.a. is arguing together the evidence shows and it can of course test this. they have to prove it to a jury that it all went beyond legal services or hypotheticals. powell was busted for the jan 6th commitment where they attempted to appoint her with a council to georgia. here s some of the testimonial evidence. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. flynn screamed at me that i was a quitter and everything. kept on standing up and turning around and screaming at me. we landed where we started the meeting. sidney powell was fighting, mike flynn was fighting. they were looking for avenues
That would enable that would result in president trump remaining president trump for a second term. yeah, that s the halting sort of sing song of someone trying to figure out, do i just say, steal the election? do i say coup? it was finished. it was over. the electoral college voted. president biden was holding military meetings. made it clear they weren t going the take orders from a coup leader after january 20th. that s what that was all about. the january 6th committee according to prosecutors and legal experts, has clearly advanced all of this because they gathered all that testimony. a lot of it was clearly true, fact-checked, corroborated. that s how investigations work. they also gave these individuals a chance to respond, which is only fair to tell their side of the story. you can imagine for example being in a meeting and saying, i heard about idea.
Theories then were more benign. donald trump is a sore loser. his feelings are hurt. give him time to absorb it. this is the toddler theory of the presidency. i don t know if you re familiar. the professor and i discussed it before. now it s pursuant to what the d.a. says is a criminal plot. that type of public stuff, while legal on its own was trying to soften the ground, get the type of superfans or, you know, propaganda victims, whatever you want to call it, to get closer to their plot, which is to stage elector fraud, edward. well, i think you re right. i don t think that any of them anticipated that the district attorney, that the prosecutor fani willis would rely on the georgia rico statute, which is pretty broad compared to the statute in other states, to bring together all of the
Multipronged racketeering plot. that s how we got here. here s how all of this took off. former president donald j. trump has been criminally indicted in the state of georgia. it begins with the rico act. that s the big one, and it is broad. it s here, all 98 pages of it, and it has that infamous rico count. the grand jury issued arrest warrants for those who are charged. you re waking up to significant historic news. donald trump indicted overnight for the fourth time. this time by the state of georgia. if he were to be convicted he could not pardon himself. 18 codefendants have also been charged. his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, his former chief of staff mark meadows. the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia s presidential election result. he s now facing four different felony trials as he
That eight months after inauguration, we have a word for that, it is absolutely bananas. but the fact that it s bananas let s bring it back up. let that sink in. it s bananas. it is that simple. but let me be clear why you have this bunch of bananas on your screen tonight. to think that it s so bananas it shouldn t be dealt with is to fall into the trap. this d.a. who is clearly strong and tough and broad in her view of how she enforces the law is not giving donald trump a pass because of course he s lying and he says weird things and wild things and he s just joking or trolling or allowed to be bananas. she s saying if you come into her state and break the law, doesn t matter how bananas is it, she ll use the laws to the fullest extent. that is the key point we land on. we re going to bring in the