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Deadline: White House

“A criminal enterprise”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Government, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Msnbc, Versant, The White House, Washington Dc

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the sweeping indictment handed down by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charging the ex-president and 18 others. Joined by: Tim Heaphy, Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Vaughn Hillyard, Claire McCaskill, Marc Harris, Harry Litman, Frank Figliuzzi, and Greg Bluestein.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone.

0:03.8

It's foreclog in the east, a Lutheran pastor in Illinois, a former publicist for Kanye West,

0:09.5

a county GOP chairwoman, a whole bunch of attorneys, and at the tipi-top, the former president

0:16.6

of the United States of America, all of them, involved in what is now described as a

0:21.4

quote, criminal enterprise in service of nothing less than overturning American democracy.

0:27.6

That is how last night's extraordinary indictment of 19 people, including Donald Trump, on a charge

0:33.6

normally used to prosecute gangs from mafia crime families, sums up the entire coup

0:39.5

bought.

0:40.5

Here's how Fulton County District Attorney Funny Willis puts it last night.

0:46.1

The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election

0:53.6

challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn

1:01.8

Georgia's presidential election result.

1:07.2

Now her indictment of this criminal racketeering enterprise begins with the very simple and

1:12.5

clear statement, sure to sting the disgrace twice impeached four times indicted ex-president.

1:19.9

Defendant Donald Trump lost the United States presidential election held on November

1:24.9

3, 2020.

1:26.9

Prosecutors alleged that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single

1:32.1

simple fact.

1:33.1

They say that Trump and his 18 co-defendants, along with 30 unindicted co-conspirators,

1:39.3

quote constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various

1:44.7

related criminal activities, including but not limited to false statements and writings,

1:49.9

impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses,

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