Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im laura coates. Remember. Not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. We have believed it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And its not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. This is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point . Special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the Manhattan Grand Jury charge of the former president for Business Fraud back in march and just listen to what Special Counsel jack smith had to say tonight. The attack on our nations capital, on january six 2021, was an unprecede
Because obviously it s not the last, but we are at the tail end of a whole host of them have been coming over many months. to that point elliott, what stands out to use what is not charged. in order to have a streamlined indictment, there is probably decisions that had to be made on things that could not be charged. we ve spent the greater part of the last two years or so debating the question of whether the former president would be charged with something like seditious conspiracy or inciting violence or so on. and i actually think here that it would have been incredibly hard to tie the president to some of these things. for instance, seditious conspiracy you would have to prove an agreement to use force or threats to prevent him from the execution of mcconnell. that happened, and many people were convicted of it but time the president of that would have been incredibly difficult and you would have also ran into serious first amendment. excellent sit versus implicit. in the sense fr