Giuliani, who put dozens of mobsters behind bars using RICO, now indicted under similar RICO statute
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout. |
| 0:06.1 | This is a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute. |
| 0:10.1 | There's probably no one that knows it better than I do, probably some that know it as well. |
| 0:14.4 | I was the first one to use it in White Caucus. |
| 0:17.3 | Ah, the irony. |
| 0:19.6 | Rudy Giuliani who put dozens of mobsters behind bars using Rico back in the day is now |
| 0:24.7 | indicted under a similar Rico statute, along with Donald Trump in Georgia. |
| 0:30.5 | Indicted with them, Trump's White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who could face the |
| 0:34.3 | same fate as Nixon's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, who went to prison for helping to carry |
| 0:39.7 | out his boss' crimes. |
| 0:42.0 | And with Trump now facing 91 felony counts, 91. |
| 0:46.4 | Most of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination still get most of the courage to condemn |
| 0:51.6 | him. |
| 0:53.6 | And we begin tonight on that very note, Donald Trump drawing his fourth indictment. |
| 0:59.5 | That is four more indictments than any prior president of the United States has ever faced. |
| 1:04.3 | And true to form, Trump is having an absolute meltdown on dime store Twitter, a truth social, |
| 1:10.5 | lashing out against the justice system and even singling out witnesses more on that |
| 1:14.5 | soon. |
| 1:15.5 | But can we just pause for a second on the karmic progression of all these cases just |
| 1:20.7 | for a moment? |
| 1:22.5 | The Manhattan D.A. indictment humbled Trump in his hometown of New York City, forcing |
| 1:27.6 | him to surrender near the same Manhattan Courthouse where the Central Park Five, who |
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