Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charge
Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
She told rolling stone yeah, i used to represent the guy when i was a defense lawyer. somehow trump took that further and took hiding a relationship to mean she was having an affair, some sort of illicit romantic sexual relationship with a gang member she was prosecuting. that is completely out of thin air no basis for it whatsoever. but he said it in a speech, then said it again on social media. and you ve said it, i ll say it, completely untrue. but thank you so much for going through all of that step by step. the truth obviously so important here. daniel dale, thanks so much. thank you. jim? let s speak now to cnn political commentator, former january 6th select committee member, former republican congressman adam kinzinger. thanks so much for taking the time. glad to be with you. you speak to republican voters. you ve won some elections yourself. trump s support among gop primary voters has withstood the charges to date. now he ll be tried, one of the trials at least