This time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convicts some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Were actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a serious one for our country. Thank you for being with us here tonight. We know you had every choice in the world. But we are happy to have you here on what will go down in u. S. History as a black letter, bold faced date, August 1st 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading president ial candidate of the Republican Party was indicted in Federal Court, accused of lead
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser
of specific claims that there had been substantial fraud in certain states, such as that large numbers of dead, nonresident, noncitizen, or otherwise and let ineligible voters that had cast ballots, or that voting machines had changed votes for the defendant trump two votes for biden instead. these claims were false and the defendant knew that they were false. and then it goes on immediately through a litany of trump s specific false claims about fraud in the election and how it can be documented, how it has been documented by the prosecutors who brought this case that trump knew those things were not true when he said them. and that is apparently a linchpin contention of this prosecution. and then we are off to the races. we get all the details. trump and his alleged coconspirators pressuring state officials in arizona, starting on page, ten in georgia, page 12, michigan, page 17, pennsylvania, page 19, wisconsin, page 20, the fake
specific false claims about fraud in the election and how it can be documented, how it has been documented by the prosecutors who brought this case that trump knew those things weren t true when he said them. and that is apparently a linchpin contention of this prosecution. and then we are off to the races. we get all the details. trump and his alleged coconspirators pressuring state officials in arizona, starting on page ten, in georgia, page 12, michigan, page 17, pennsylvania, page 19, wisconsin, page 20, the fake electors scheme in bloody detail starting on page 21, the effort to get the justice department involved in the plot, to get doj to tell the states that it would be okay for them to throw out lawful election results, that whole plot starts on page 27. the pressure against vice president mike pence, that starts on page 32. and so, we are in special coverage, we ve got a lot to talk about in terms of the strength of this evidence, the