New Trump Indictment Presents Now-Familiar Dangers. Plus: Zelensky Battles Draft Dodgers & a Failed Counteroffensive | SYSTEM UPDATE #131
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Good evening. It's Tuesday, August 15th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. |
| 0:19.3 | Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively |
| 0:24.6 | you are on the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight it's getting very |
| 0:28.6 | hard to count how many times Donald Trump has been indicted. We are now up to |
| 0:32.4 | four two federal cases |
| 0:34.4 | and two state cases. |
| 0:35.6 | Yesterday, a district attorney in Georgia, Fannie Willis, |
| 0:38.9 | who represents the deeply blue Fulton County |
| 0:41.6 | home to Atlanta, |
| 0:43.0 | convinced a grand jury to return an indictment of 13 felony counts |
| 0:46.7 | against Trump, with many more against 18 |
| 0:49.5 | of his closest political allies, |
| 0:51.0 | including his attorney Rudy Giuliani. |
| 0:53.6 | The latest charges are based on very similar grounds as the prior indictment brought. |
| 0:58.6 | This one by Special Counsel Jack Smith, namely the charges that the former president committed multiple crimes |
| 1:04.6 | for in essence claiming the 2020 election was the byproduct of fraud and then |
| 1:10.3 | seeking to invalidate the outcome of that election |
| 1:13.4 | through what the last indictment and this one alleges |
| 1:16.4 | are unlawful means for doing so. |
| 1:19.6 | The primary difference between yesterday's Georgia |
| 1:22.2 | indictment and the federal one brought |
| 1:23.9 | last week by special counsel Jack Smith is that the law in Georgia is as a |
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