They name. But certainly the former president s team has spent the day bracing for bad news. They appear to believe that this could potentially reference him. That his name could be one of those on those ten indictments that were returned. Theyve issues taken just a few moments ago. Lashing out at the District Attorney, fani willis here. Something that we have seen the former president doing repeatedly on social media in recent days. They are actually accusing them of Election Interference. Which we should note is, of course, ironic given that what the heart of the indictments potentially. Lets go back to cnn sarah murphy who has been outside the courthouse in atlanta all day. Sarah, obviously we are waiting to see when we are going to potentially hear from baku District Attorney, fani willis, that trump has been attacking here. Whats the latest that you have heard . , thats right, i mean, she is still expected to make remarks to the press this evening. But obviously they want to get t
Levels, it tends to hurt the person, who is sort of more guilty in terms of proof. The psychology of that is fantastic. Now i wanted to ask you, now that youve had a little bit of a chance to chew on this. If you feel like if there is anything particularly problematic controversial, or anything that feels like an overreach in his indictment that might be vulnerable, in terms of people challenging the prosecution . No, right now it looks strong and we focused on the statement at the Press Conference about 19 defendants being tried together and i think that is controversial. And i dont think will happen but that is under the indictment itself. Really the issue is that there were 19 defendants. And the thing about 19 defendants is that there is a lot of opportunities for cooperation. And weve already talked about. Rudy giuliani being somebody who might flip. Indeed, the whole doctrine and the conspiracy doctrine is written to encourage people to flip. And when rico was enacted. 50 years a
it s of other individuals. obviously there is a 98-page indictment, it s gonna take us a minute to read through it. but, jake one of the most important parts of course is not just trump s name on this, but it s the others that are on this. and so we have donald john trump, rudy giuliani, john eastman, mark meadows, he s on here, jake. canned cheeseborough, this another unindicted coconspirator in the previous indictment. jeffrey clark, that is the former justice department official that wanted to be named the acting attorney general, nearly did. jenna ellis, the trump attorney, ray smith, another attorney. robert chilly, mike roman, that is the trump campaign official who was handling fake electors in that time period. jake, from the election to through december. he is someone who has also been part of the, he had met with investigators in jack smith s investigation. his name is on here. and david james shaver, that i believe is the top former republican official. he was in a campaig
Folks that are influenced by, i don t think that is important to do, because what is pushing,c both on the fundraising and on social media, is absolutely wheels off ravings of somebody who has lost it. i if he has ever had it. but stay on that david, because it is not just cash c patel are paul manafort or stephen miller out there pushing this nonsense, it is ted cruz, it is lindsey graham. u.s. senators, elected by the american people. to focus on policy and to focus on issues to keep americans safe and thriving. pushing these lies about the weaponization of government. does that make you nervous for our democracy which by the way we should remember would be honored tonight that it has held to this point. yes, that is exactly right, politicians get to choose whether to follow or delete. and you just named politicians who follow. the most dangerous thing that
Which is a collectors that have not yet been charged. because we have fake electors charged in michigan. ct we have fake electors under investigation and a few other states and we have got now state charges against take electors in georgia. that seem very rock level in other states. and david james shaver and kathleen austin. you are charged with the offense of impersonating a public officer. for someone accused individually of a crime and together with et unindicted co-conspirators, unlawfully falsely had themselves out as the duly elected and qualified presidential electors, from the state of georgia. and that is just one of the charges brought against the fake electors for nothing other than pretending to be real electors when they were fake ones. and the kind of charge this is, is not some unique