Counts against mr. Trump, handed up last night by a grand jury after a 2 1 2 year investigation conducted by District Attorney willis in georgia. Willis writes, quote, defendant donald trump lost the election. One of the states he lost was georgia. Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment Refuse to accept that trump lost. They knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Among those codefendants, some of the most wellknown people in the former president s orbit during his final days in office. Including his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, personal attorney and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, who tried to assert significant election concerns had been identified, and a string of lawyers, including john eastman, Sidney Powell and speaking to the press just before midnight, she rejected trumps accusation on social media that she was persecuting him for political reasons.
force him to spend campaign money on campaign stuff when he can spend it on legal issues instead. laura, i want to read to you something about the detail in this 97 pages. for instance, in the indictment it says, members of this enterprise, which she has labeled a criminal enterprise as part of the racketeering charges against all of them, members of the enterprise, including several of the defendants, corruptly solicited high ranking united states department of justice officials to make false statements to government officials in fulton county, georgia, including the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tem of the senate. donald trump stated to the acting united states attorney general, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. this implicates a lot of people. it does. it s important, i think, and the reason it keeps coming up in this indictment and the other one is it goes to his state of
have to show is that these people were all engaged in overarching criminal effort. overarching enterprise and organization. and that s obviously a loaded and important charge. it is another way in which this indictment is very ambitious. this indictment is very far reaching in what it accuses people of, and that all the types of behavior it says was part of that criminal effort. devlin barrett, joyce vance, thank you very much. and coming up in our next hour of special coverage, critical differences, why the georgia indictment against former president trump could end up having much more staying power than even the two federal indictments he faces. plus, what s the georgia trial going to look like on tv? and what that could mean both legally and politically for somebody who is running for president again. you re watching special coverage of the indictment of donald trump, right here on msnbc. ictm trump, right here on msnbc sometimes jonah wrestles with falling asleep. .so he takes