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
an interview and he called this a weaponization of the legal system. so he s defending donald trump. asa hutchinson put out a statement critical of condemning trump for these indictments. but yeah, i mean, this feels like all of these campaigns are pretty much vanity projects. i don t think any of these people really want to win. because if you really wanted to become the president and you re polling at least 30 points behind the top guy, that s if you re doing well, you would definitely go out and say to voters, hey, i get it, you like donald trump, i like donald trump, but donald trump is most likely going to be facing prison t time. that s not a great scenario for voters, for the country, for the republican party, let s just be realistic here. none of them are really willing to do that basic thing in any kind of fully frontal way.