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
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Tim scott is a good man, presenting a generally optimistic vision in an overwhelmingly negative republican field. what he said, this represents to tears of justice-ness in this country is fundamentally and factually wrong. this indictment shows that there is one standard of justice. that nobody is above the law. and this is about, take a step back from politics. this is about the most serious, historical moment we ve had in our country in a long time. where a sitting president tried to overturn the election on a basis of a law. this lays out fact by fact, folks want to engage in a magical thinking and not read this indictment as a matter of pride. they are engaging in willful ignorance. no doubt. but it doesn t make it right. we shouldn t dignify it. there is an emerging theory on the right tonight. that even people who believed january six was horrible, that trump violated his oath of office, whatever. it is possible to believe that he was totally wrong, immoral and should not hold
Factually wrong. this indictment shows there is one standard of justice, that no one is above the law. take a step back from politics. this is about the serious most historical moment in a long, long time where a sitting president tried to overturn election on the basis of a lie. this lays it out. folks want to engage in magical thinking and not read this indictment as a matter of pride. they are engaging in political ignorance, but it doesn t make it right. and we shouldn t dignify. there is an emerging theory on the right tonight about that even people who believe january 6th was horrible that trump violated his oath of office, whatever, that it s possible to believe that he was totally wrong and amoral and shouldn t hold the presidency again, but that you don t also have to believe that he should have been charged with a crime. i m starting to see people on the right tonight parse it out. i don t agree with january 6th. i think he was wrong. this indictment seems thin.