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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

Society & Culture, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:00.0

We've got new developments in that Georgia case involving Donald Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the election.

0:05.2

Today, as Chris was talking about, the former Trump lawyer, Sidney Powell, this woman, asked the court to separate

0:10.4

her case from the 19 other defendants in the trial.

0:14.2

Her lawyers claim that Sidney Powell, quote,

0:16.3

has no substantive connection with any other defendant

0:19.4

regarding the charges in the indictment, end quote,

0:22.5

and therefore should be tried alone.

0:24.7

Now that is, to put it mildly, a difficult case to make.

0:28.3

Powell, seen here standing alongside Rudy Giuliani

0:31.3

in front of a campaign sign for the co-defendant Donald Trump has many

0:34.0

substantive connections to the other defendants.

0:36.9

She attended a meeting with several of her co-defendants at the White House where they

0:39.8

discussed ways to overturn the election. At that meeting they considered

0:44.9

making Sidney Powell a special counsel so that she could investigate the

0:50.3

election. But now her lawyer says she doesn't really know any of those folks

0:54.0

and she's not alone in that by the way another co-defendant in the Georgia case.

0:57.1

This man Kenneth Cheesbro has also filed a motion to sever his case from the

1:01.7

others. Mr. Chees Cheesebro would also like the court

1:04.1

to release the names of 30 unindicted co-conspirators in the indictment. There are

1:09.0

30 of them who were not named. Those motions come as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the court that she

1:15.7

wants all 19 defendants in this case tried together, no exceptions.

1:20.8

Cheesbro and Powell have all invoked Georgia's speedy trial act trying to get their cases

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