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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. |
0:05.7 | Even as he faces a new raft of charges this time, a multi-count indictment handed up by |
0:11.5 | a Georgia grand jury, former President Donald Trump continues to fight back. |
0:16.6 | The charges brought by Fulton County Day, Fawni Willis accused Trump and 18 others of rack |
0:20.7 | at tearing and other crimes as part of an effort to overturn the 2020 election. |
0:25.7 | NPR's Franco-Ordonia reports the former president and current GOP frontrunner plans |
0:30.0 | to re-bubble next week. He plans to hold a press conference on Monday, and he says his team will |
0:35.3 | release a detailed report on what he promises will be proof of election fraud in Georgia, |
0:41.4 | which of course has been shown repeatedly to be false. And I'll just add that earlier today, |
0:46.9 | the Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, also dismissed this stating that in the three years, |
0:52.2 | no one has been able to provide any legal proof of fraud. |
0:55.8 | NPR's Franco-Ordonia is indicted along with Trump, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, |
1:00.2 | and lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Georgia's granted Harris County, Texas, a temporary injunction against |
1:06.7 | the law that will require the county to abolish its elections administrator's office. |
1:10.8 | Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider says the Texas Attorney General appealed the decision. |
1:15.0 | The Republican-dominated Texas legislature passed a bill in May that would shift the |
1:19.1 | functions of Harris County's elections administrator to its elected county clerk and tax |
1:23.7 | assessor collector. The law was set to take effect less than two months before the start of early |
1:28.6 | voting for Houston's next mayor. Harris County Attorney Christian Manifee is suing the state, |
1:33.7 | calling the law unconstitutional. In the end of the day, we know that this is not about making |
1:38.6 | elections better for the Republican Party. It's about undermining confidence in our elections. |
1:43.0 | Republican lawmakers passed the law in response to a series of alleged problems with Harris |
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