Democracy Now! 2023-08-15 Tuesday
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
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Headlines for August 15, 2023; Georgia Grand Jury Charges Trump & 18 Co-Conspirators with Racketeering for 2020 Election Interference; Black Voters Matter Co-Founder: Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is “Step Forward” in Defending Democracy; Why No Insurrection Charge? Ralph Nader on How Trump Could Still Be Reelected Unless DOJ Acts
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.2 | Today based on information developed by that investigation, a Fulton County grand jury |
| 0:26.3 | returned a true bill of indictment, charging 19 individuals with violations of Georgia |
| 0:34.8 | law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential |
| 0:44.6 | election in this state. |
| 0:46.6 | For the fourth time in four months, the grand jury is indicted former President Donald |
| 0:51.6 | Trump. |
| 0:52.6 | The indictment stems from a sweeping investigation by Fulton County Prosecutive Fanny Willis in |
| 0:58.1 | Georgia is built around Georgia's Rico Law, which is often used to go after organized crime. |
| 1:04.9 | We'll go to Atlanta to speak with veteran journalist Michael Isacoff who's writing a |
| 1:09.0 | book on the Georgia case and get a response from Latasha Brown, co-founder of the Black |
| 1:15.2 | Voters Matter Fund. |
| 1:17.1 | We'll also speak with longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph |
| 1:21.4 | Nader, who says special counsel Jack Smith's January 6 indictment of Trump should include |
| 1:27.1 | insurrection. |
| 1:28.1 | It's important to say also that all presidents violate laws is just taking it to a new and |
| 1:36.4 | diverse height, but he's doing it so brazenly that if he gets away with it, it will continue |
| 1:43.2 | to contribute to the institutionalization of lawlessness by presidents of the United |
| 1:48.6 | States. |
| 1:49.6 | That and more coming up. |
| 1:58.4 | Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:04.1 | A grand jury in Georgia's indicted Donald Trump and 18 others, charging them with organizing |
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