Reporter evening, trace. This is the second federal indictment for the former president out of jack smiths investigation. The 2024 gop candidate who leads the field by a wide margin has already pleaded not guilty to 37 counts related to his alleged retention of Classified Records from his presidency. Only this time were talking about four federal charges, including Conspiracy To Defraud the u. S. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction and an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. And conspiracy against right. Notably resist allege the president knowingly made false claims about the election being stolen which, they claim, stoked the fires of january 6th. Quote, these claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false, but the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate creating an Intense National atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administration of the elect
the second indictment which comes today, we learned just yesterday that devon archer, a business partner and long-time associate and friend of hunter biden, is alleging that, as a firsthand witness, joe biden, you know, essentially was the sell from hunter biden to these foreign business associates and was put on speaker phone over 20 times. and so, again, i think all this is coming out in a very interesting time here. trace: sure you re not the first to note that. congressman mike johnson tweeted no surprise at all following devon archer s damning testimony yesterday the doj drops more charges against donald trump. their efforts of distraction can never change the real problem. president biden is in serious trouble. and like he s pointing out leslie, it s not just this time, it s happened a couple times. there s a pattern here of releasing this information indicting the president at key times which maybe it s nothing but it looks kind of interesting. i would agree the timing looks