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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Fulton County DA signals an August decision on potential charges in the Trump election interference probe

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with Fulton County DA Fani Willis having signaled an August decision on potential charges in the investigation of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, which included the use of fake electors. Also in this episode, we examine how Ron DeSantis is getting set to formally launch his presidential campaign, with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state, including his economically destructive fight with Disney. Plus, we bring you Joy's conversation with Chasten Buttigieg, who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to LGBT youth. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the Readout, I think that people thought that we came into this as some kind

0:10.7

of game.

0:12.2

This is not a game at all.

0:14.9

What I am doing is very serious.

0:16.9

It's very important work.

0:18.4

Nope, not a game that was Fulton County DA Fonney Willis last summer talking about her

0:23.3

probe of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

0:26.5

And there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer.

0:34.3

Also tonight, Ron DeSantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the

0:39.4

baggage of a four plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses

0:45.4

in his own state, including his economically destructive fight with Disney Plus.

0:51.5

My conversation with Chas and Buttigieg, who has a message for young people amid the growing

0:56.2

threats to LGBT youth.

1:01.6

But we begin tonight with seven battleground states that President Biden won in 2020, Arizona,

1:08.1

Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

1:13.0

Not only will these all be states to watch in next year's presidential election, but

1:17.4

they were all part of the failed plot by Donald Trump and his team to overturn the last election

1:23.5

by organizing slates of alternative fake electors.

1:27.4

Those illegitimate Republican electors submitted forged documents in December of 2020, vouching

1:33.5

that they were duly elected and qualified electors, and were falsely declaring Trump the

1:39.1

victor and then tried to award their state's electoral votes to Trump instead of Joe Biden.

1:45.6

As we know, these fake electoral slates paid a huge role in Trump's effort to short-circuit

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