Lawrence: Jack Smith speaks for first time with 49-page indictment
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, at this hour, tonight, right now, 27 hours after Donald Trump was told that he had |
| 0:09.6 | just become the first former president in history charged with federal crimes, including |
| 0:13.7 | violations of the Espionage Act. |
| 0:15.4 | The Trump Criminal Defense Team is in chaos. |
| 0:20.1 | The Trump Criminal Defense lawyer who called Donald Trump at 7 pm last night to tell |
| 0:24.5 | him that he was indicted by prosecutors in the executive branch of the government that |
| 0:31.0 | he once controlled resigned or was fired this morning, along with another criminal defense |
| 0:37.5 | lawyer who also resigned or was fired this morning. |
| 0:41.7 | Last night, after the indictment was announced, the lead criminal defense lawyer in the case |
| 0:47.0 | of the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump said this. |
| 0:53.1 | Even if he talks about those documents or talks about the existence of them, that is |
| 0:56.7 | light years away from the specific intent that they need for an Espionage case. |
| 1:02.0 | And now that lawyer is gone. |
| 1:05.8 | Anything the Trump Defense lawyers have ever said publicly about what were then the possible |
| 1:13.1 | charges against Donald Trump has turned out to be completely wrong. |
| 1:19.2 | Now that we see the actual charges against Donald Trump, Donald Trump is now charged |
| 1:24.0 | with 37 counts all felonies. |
| 1:26.9 | The crimes include obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act. |
| 1:31.8 | The indictment is better written and reads more clearly and easily than anything else you |
| 1:38.2 | might have read about this case. |
| 1:40.3 | It includes stunning photographs of the way the indictment says Donald Trump illegally |
| 1:46.2 | kept government documents at his Florida residence, showing just how insecurely the documents |
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