GOP talks up “riots” if Trump is indicted as DOJ eyes two roads to Trump charges

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Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, August 29th and reports on Lindsey Graham threatening riots and unrest if prosecutors indict Donald Trump. Plus Georgia Governor Brian kemp has been ordered to testify in an election probe as the Trump legal team reportedly “scrambles to find an argument” according to the New York Times. DOJ veteran Neal Katyal, law professor Melissa Murray and reporters Joan Walsh and Will Sommer join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber, and now a Trump ally is directly threatening riots and unrest if prosecutors do go forward and eventually indict Donald Trump.
0:12.6	It's all about getting him. They literally will be riots in the street.
0:18.7	That is what the escalation sounds like now. It's an apparent threat with Trump then amplified in a new post of that same clip to his followers online. You can see there. And this is not just anybody talking. It is a Trump-ally lawyer and top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
0:39.7	So he knows better than to just blithely talk up, warn of violence and crime as retaliation
0:45.9	against whatever happens in the criminal justice system, which no one, including him, knows what
0:51.0	will happen. Senator Graham, going further than most Republican senators.
0:55.7	Indeed, many have lately been trying to duck much attention over Trump's secret document scandal.
1:00.8	But what is different about Graham? Well, Senator Lindsey Graham is also a witness and a potential
1:06.6	participant in Donald Trump's 2020 election plot, which remains under criminal investigation in Georgia.
1:13.7	Graham trying to fight lawful orders to testify there.
1:16.7	So he has, at a minimum, a conflict.
1:20.3	Now, Graham carefully avoided linking his own legal pressure in Georgia to this new apparent warning or threat.
1:29.0	Instead, he argued there's some sort of double standard about secret documents, which is the federal case, not the Georgia
1:33.7	case. And he argues that if Trump were indicted on that charge, the riots would be concerned
1:40.1	about the double standard. They would be about that. Most Republicans, including me, believes when it comes to Trump, there is no law.
1:51.0	It's all about getting him.
1:53.0	If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after
1:58.0	Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement, they literally
2:01.6	will be riots in the street.
2:02.6	I worry about our country.
2:04.6	There literally will be riots in the street, he says, and uses his platform to push that
2:10.6	idea and then adds his idea that he's also just sort of concerned that this is something
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