Lawrence: Trump is Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in Arizona 'fake electors' indictment

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Washington Post reports Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani are among the seven unnamed Trump aides charged in Arizona. Also, Donald Trump’s January 6 case is on hold as the Supreme Court weighs his immunity claim. And President Biden picks up another key union endorsement. Timothy Heaphy, Andrew Weissmann, and Jimmy Williams, Jr. join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,
0:04.0	Alex and just what we thought the big news from Arizona today was the
0:08.6	House representatives there repealing the 1864 bill getting three Republicans to switch.
0:15.4	We now have 11 Republicans in Arizona indicted.
0:19.2	It's 7 PM in Arizona right now, Alex, and there's 11 indicted fake electors there who may be struggling
0:28.1	with what they want for dinner at this particular hour.
0:32.6	Maybe thinking about what they should do in the medium term.
0:35.8	Maybe thinking, maybe thinking not be on the stand,
0:39.9	maybe being witnesses for the prosecution, just maybe and we all discovered tonight
0:45.5	that in Arizona law co-conspirator is written without a hyphen never never seen that before but we know there's 50
0:54.5	states. That's a sign of the times isn't it? How do they spec how do they punctuate
0:58.8	co-conspirator in Arizona? We certainly seen the word a lot.
1:02.8	Sign of the time, Florence.
1:04.8	We sure might.
1:06.4	Have a good show.
1:07.4	Thanks, Alex.
1:08.4	Well, the breaking news of the night is that Donald Trump's name appears in another indictment.
1:13.6	This one in Arizona, the Attorney General of Arizona,
1:16.2	has charged 11 Republican Baker electors
1:19.1	and seven Trump Associates,
1:21.1	including Mark Meadows and Roluliani,
1:23.2	with a criminal conspiracy involving several felonies.
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