Results of the president ial election. Coming up, well dig deeper into the indictment and the former president s defense. Can trump be charged with lying if he believes what he said was true . The answer may hinge, at least in part, at least on district judge Tanya Chutkan, a vet ran on cases involving january 6th defendants. What members of congress are claiming and will it be a jury of his peers or the electorate who render the final verdict . We begin with tomorrows arraignment in a d. C. Federal court where donald trump will be formally charged for repeatedly spreading lies as part of an elaborate criminal scheme with the ultimate goal to hang on to power by any means necessary. In fact, trump is raising four federal counts including three conspiracy, to defraud the United States, to obstruct an official proceeding and to impede the peoples right to vote. Ever since the news broke, the former president , his allies and attorneys have been working furiously to smear jack smith and t
legitimate election results and change electoral votes in order to cling on to power and the white house. i want to bring back andrew weissmann. seven key states, seven different strategies, disproven claims of vote dumps in michigan, phantom absentee ballots in pennsylvania, voter fraud in arizona, and then, of course, the pressuring and threatening of officials in georgia. help us get these claims into context here, in the context of the charges against the president, the former president of the united states. one of the schemes that s alleged is this pressure campaign with respect to the states that you mention. there are various forms that it takes. there are various alleged lies that are laid out. quite notably, chris, a number of the conspirators, their roles
require hand counting of ballots, or block all mail voting. their platforms were rooted in trump s disproven claims that the 2020 race was rigged, and their bids for public office raised grave concerns about whether the popular will could be subverted and free and fair elections be undermind in 2024 and beyond. installing loyalists as secretary of state in battleground states, that was the plan. that was all part of donald trump s plan to reshape our country s election system in his favor so he can more easily steal the next election. trump reports this. suddenly secretary of state races became premier attractions, elevating once sleepy bureaucratic down ballot races to the national spotlight. donations, especially from alarmed democrats, quickly flooded the races. nearly $50 million was spent on television advertising in four states michigan, arizona, nevada, and minnesota. and democrats had a 10-1
former president trump pressured republican secretary of state brad raffensperger to find him enough votes to win the election. of course raffensperger refused. now raffensperger is up for reelection and trump has endorsed congressman jodie heiss who is unabashedly promoting trump and the big lie. these candidates who say the election was stolen from trump, do you sense they are pushing these unfounded, disproven claims that have been overwhelmingly shown to be completely false, because they believe them? or do they just want a trump endorsement? no question, the possibility of a trump endorsement is a huge factor in this messaging. and one example i can give you is in the ohio senate race, there are six candidates, five are working strenuously for trump s endorsement. one of those candidates, josh mandel, we wrote about in the
youth vaping, which he calls a public health crisis. there has been a surge in teen vaping following the rollout of the e-cigarettes. new york times reports former kansas secretary of state has given the white house a list of demands for perks if he accepts the role of immigration czar. this is crishris kobach. you ll remember his name for claims of voting fraud. disproven claims. it is a problem for him to be head of homeland security by november, provided he doesn t want to stay on as immigration czar. he also wants around the clock access to a government jet, the ability to take all weekends off and go home to kansas, a staff of seven people, a title that includes the highest level of pay, and the ability to walk into the oval office at will. all right. we ll see how the president reacts to those. i m surprised the list didn t