S9 Ep 15: It's Newt's turn

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The latest episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast focuses on new out-of-state material witness subpoenas issued by the Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies. The most notable to receive them are former national security advisor Michael Flynn and former Georgia congressman and House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Also on the list are one of Trump’s former senior advisors, a cyber investigations consultant and a police chaplain from Illinois. The special purpose grand jury, which convened in May, is investigating alleged interference with the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Gingrich has been an election denier since shortly after the 2020 election as evidenced by an interview he gave to Fox News. Democrats stole “five or six states,” Gingrich said. “In Fulton County, Georgia, we believe these people are thieves. We believe the machines are corrupt.” Gingrich’s subpoena says he was involved with the Trump campaign in a plan to air TV ads that “repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election” and which encouraged viewers “to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the results of the election.” In November 2020, Trump pardoned Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to giving false statements to the FBI during an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Just weeks later, Flynn appeared on Newsmax and said Trump won the 2020 election. Flynn also said Trump “could take military capabilities and he could place them in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states.” You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting platform. You can also stream it on your computer above. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's worth knowing which is really going on.
0:04.0	This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
0:08.0	Previously on Breakdown.
0:14.0	With the Georgia situation, he did it himself.
0:18.0	He called up Raffin's burger on the phone and it started him, you know, in my opinion,
0:24.0	if you listen to the phone call.
0:26.0	And I think that there's at least a fact issue there.
0:30.0	So as a prosecutor, I would look at it since you've got Donald Trump on the phone making the phone call himself.
0:36.0	He didn't have one of his lackeys do it.
0:38.0	It wasn't Eric, it wasn't Don Jr., it wasn't Ivanka, it was him.
0:42.0	And so why would you use Rico?
0:46.0	Just charge him with extortion.
0:48.0	You don't need to go through enterprise and pattern.
0:50.0	With the Fulham County Special Purpose Grand Jury said to go silent at the end of the first week of October until after the elections,
0:58.0	we had been bracing ourselves for some last minute business.
1:02.0	And it happened.
1:04.0	Late Friday afternoon on October 7, 5 new out-of-state material witness subpoenas were issued to some instantly recognizable names.
1:12.0	They include former Georgia congressmen and speaker of the House Newt Gingrich,
1:18.0	National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, interesting developments for sure.
1:23.0	But on a late Friday afternoon, come on.
1:27.0	Hello again, and welcome back to season 9 of Breakdown, the podcast from the Atlanta Journal Constitution that takes you inside Georgia's most important cases.
1:35.0	I'm Bill Rankin, the HAC's Legal Affairs Reporter.
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