Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
Here, she is not an expert in clerks and refused to answer the questions. Yeah, throughout the day today, beginning early this morning, our team has been outside of the courthouse alongside numerous other members of the media and everyone was anticipating or waiting for potential indictment against the former president today and earlier today there was buzz or information circulating he had been indicted and reuters published the indictment around the lunchtime hour thachl generated buzz that the indictment had come down. All of a sudden the Fulton County clerk office said those are not correct, legitimate documents, they are fictitious, there is no indictment. Fastforward to immediate night and the indictment is remarkably similar if not identical to the document that surfaced today on the county website, it generated a lot of questions. How did that get up there, on a Government Website . Tonight when the District Attorney was asked about it, she said she had no comment, she is not a
Again, that wasnt the perceived goal here. That was the perception among his supporters that think its gone too far. Lets get more from Griff Jenkins. Thats right, neil. Fox news confirmed that former President Trump is indeed in the courtroom right now. He entered at about 3 52 p. M. So just under ten minutes ago. Hes wearing a blue suit, a red to you. Flanked by his two attorneys. Fox has confirmed that we expect him to plead not guilty to the four felony charges hes facing in this indictment. Three are conspiracy charges, one is obstruction. Before he entered that courtroom, a little less than an hour ago, his motorcade entered the garage here at the federal courthouse. He was processed and fingerprinted. Theres no mug shot taken because the court says theres plenty of pictures of him to provide. Hes not arrested. But he is obviously being processed. Now we wait for this Court Proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson inside, the Magistrate Jud
Mr trump responded by posting a Campaign Statement on his social media channel truth social. He likened his prosecution to the lawless persecution in nazi germany. Shortly after the charges were announced, he sent out a Campaigning Email vowing to continue his campaign for the white house. Heres our north america editor, sarah smith is in washington and has sent this report. Die hard Trump Supporters were anything but distraught as they learned of the latest charges against him. These people do believe hes being unfairly persecuted, but also that he can beat the rap. Hes going to be the case. I think its helping his popularity. Most people will believe hes a martyr, you know, just being persecuted, and i think he will get more votes. I pledge allegiance keeping a Vigil Outside of a washington prison that has some of the january 6th rioters, they think this largely democratic city will be hostile territory for a trump trial. Do you think that if a dcjury finds donald trump guilty, am i
charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty. right in the middle of a presidential election in which he is losing very badly. no other president, even those who kept far more documents than i, has ever been even investigated, let alone charged with a crime. it s joe biden and his corrupt department of injustice who think they are above the law. never before have the two standards of justice in our country been more starkly revealed. laura: and that same type of cheering you just heard at the club was also heard organically hours earlier where hundreds of supporters showed up outside the miami courtroom where president trump was arraigned. now, after that, dozens more went to a cuban restaurant in the city where they sang happy birthday to former president trump and took selfie after selfie with him. now, one thing is clear here, despite all the naysayers, his support is still very strong and perhaps unprecedented among modern political figures. but ins