Latest Trump Indictment Is 'Most Important' One Yet
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, witness tampering, conspiracy against the rights of citizens and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.
Special counsel Jack Smith has been leading the investigation into Trump's conduct after the 2020 election and his role in the insurrection that played out at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
We hear from presidential historian Tim Naftali about the significance of the new charges against the former president.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of what then President Trump did in the lead up to January 6, 2021, he did out |
| 0:13.4 | in the open. |
| 0:14.6 | In the weeks after he lost the presidential election, he publicly urged state officials |
| 0:19.7 | to overturn the results in their states based on lies about election fraud. |
| 0:24.7 | Very sad to say it. This election was rigged and we can't let that happen. We can't let |
| 0:30.0 | it happen for our country. And this election has to be turned around because we won Pennsylvania |
| 0:36.7 | by a lot. That's him calling into a meeting of state Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania |
| 0:42.8 | in November 2020 for the record Joe Biden won the state. Then there was Trump's speech the |
| 0:49.2 | morning of the attack on the Capitol. As Congress prepared to count the electoral votes, |
| 0:54.6 | Trump urged his vice president Mike Pence to throw out the results. |
| 0:59.4 | All vice president Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify. |
| 1:06.8 | And we become president and you are the happiest people. |
| 1:11.0 | He urged a crowd of his supporters to march on the Capitol where they would eventually |
| 1:16.3 | violently overpower police and ransack the building. |
| 1:20.3 | And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have |
| 1:25.4 | a country anymore. But in the years since that attack, those same actions have been described |
| 1:31.9 | in very different terms depending on who's talking. A month after the insurrection, |
| 1:36.9 | the Senate's top Republican Mitch McConnell had this to say. |
| 1:40.7 | Former president Trump's actions preceded the riot or a disgrace, disgrace, their election |
| 1:50.0 | of duty. Trump and his defenders have maintained he did nothing wrong. Here he is on Fox News |
| 1:56.3 | in December 2021. And if you look at my words and what I said in the speech, they were extremely |
| 2:03.1 | calming actually. On August 1st, 2023, a federal grand jury described Trump's role in the attack |
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