Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profile of a racketeering case. Thats where willis gained her fame as a local prosecutor. You often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy. To make out that case you have to esta conspirators. Few crimes are on a predicate crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. In this case theyre likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. Thats the most likely thing here. The problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were design
The indictment follows a yearlong investigation, 75 witnesses and 98 pages. The Fulton County District Attorney. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election. Harris so in those 98 pages the indictment targets 19 defendants with a total of 41 charges. The former president faces 13 of those 41 charges himself. Prosecutors say they have various emails, texts, phone calls as evidence against all 19 plaintiffs. Trumps codefendants, the 18 others include some of his attorneys at the time and his former white house Chief Of Staff. The District Attorney says she hopes to go to trial in six months and try all 19 at the same time. Fox news contributor and legal expert Jonathan Turley says the two tiers of justice as plain as day. The contrast is extraordinary. Trump is being indicted for everything short of ripping a Mattress Label off. And
Then we find according to james comer nine biden family members are paid. they tried to pull a fast one but for the diligence of this delaware judge they would have got away letting hunter and through hunter joe biden off the hook on all this but thankfully in the diversion portion of that plea agreement the judge read excuse me does this mean you ve completed all future investigations? at that point it fell apart. i believe there was a wink and nod between david weiss and his office that had by the way recommended felony charges that he didn t abide with, and of course, the defense that s my theory and your thoughts. yeah. it s all so obvious i don t think you have to be a lawyer or some political expert. you don t have to be watching all that closely to realize the depth of the devil standard and the corruption that s going on here both in terms of what we are seeing with hunter biden and
Court recently? well, it made it so that hunter biden was unlikely to serve any jail time. it included probation and a fine and also a diversion program agreement for his gun charge. his attorneys say the gun portion of the plea deal still stands. meanwhile, the two tax violations could go to trial. your take. walk us through it. thank you, harris. i am old enough to remember when we were talking about the judge could derail this deal and she did. harris: you were right. basically the hunter key wants to salvage that diversion portion. the deal right now is dead. david weiss has told the judge by notice that he is going to vacate the case in delaware because he will file in another district. over the weekend, hunter biden s legal team said wait a minute. we have a deal with the diversion. that takes two parties to agree and the judge to sign off.
This pre-deal collapse, where she could not accept it?- she could not accept it? yes, from the she could not accept it? yes, from the reporting she could not accept it? yes, from the reporting that - from the reporting that is coming out it sounds like there just wasn t a meeting of the minds between the prosecutors here and the defence team on the scope of this please. most particularly, really, the immunity paragraphs, what conduct was covered by these please, and so without that agreement, it would be very hard for thejudge to agreement, it would be very hard for the judge to accept this plea. hard for the udge to accept his plea. hard for the udge to accept his plea. hard for the udge to accept this lea. , ., ., this plea. joe, the udge had indicated she this plea. joe, the judge had indicated she thought - this plea. joe, the judge had indicated she thought this i this plea. joe, the judge had i indicated she thought this was an unusual agreement. is it an unusual agre