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The Daily

A Law Used Against the Mafia — and Now Trump

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, former President Donald J. Trump and 18 others were indicted by an Atlanta grand jury, with Mr. Trump and some of his former top aides accused of orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Richard Fausset, who covers politics and culture in the American South for The Times, explains why, of all the charges piling up against Trump, this one may be the hardest to escape.

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0:00.0

From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is The Daily.

0:11.0

Today, a Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment, charging 19 individuals

0:20.2

with violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results

0:29.1

of the 2020 presidential election in this state.

0:33.8

On Monday night, Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time since leaving office, this

0:39.3

time by a local prosecutor for his attempt along with 18 alleged co-conspirators to overturn

0:46.8

the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia.

0:50.6

Specifically, the indictment brings felony charges against Donald, John, Trump, Rudolph,

0:58.9

William, Lewis, Giuliani, John, Charles, Eastman.

1:04.0

I spoke with my colleague, Richard Fossette, about why of all the charges now piling up

1:09.6

against Trump. This one may be the hardest for him to ever escape.

1:19.4

It's Tuesday, August 15.

1:29.9

So, Richard, it's almost 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, because grand juries don't care

1:35.6

about newspaper deadlines or journalist sleep schedule, so I'll spare you any small talk

1:42.2

and just jump right in. I want you to give us an overview of this fourth indictment

1:48.8

against Donald Trump, which we got just about two hours ago.

1:53.2

Sure, this is a state of Georgia indictment that charges former President Trump and 18

2:00.4

of his associates and allies of a really broad range of crimes, all of them in an effort

2:09.5

to overturn the election in Georgia.

2:12.2

And in a lot of ways, Michael, it is exactly what the prosecutor here in Fulton County,

2:16.7

Ronnie Willis, sort of insinuated, if not promised, which is that she is very fond of

2:23.4

the RICO statute, the racketeering statute in Georgia, that allows prosecutors to tie

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