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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Special counsel lays out Trump's history of 'blaming fraud for election results he doesn't like'

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the new legal filing on Tuesday in special counsel Jack Smith's election subversion case, showing prosecutors hope to present a more sweeping range of evidence of Donald Trump's lies about election fraud than previously thought. Plus, we examine Liz Cheney speaking of her regret for supporting Trump for years, as she warns about the potential consequences if Trump returns to the White House. Also in this episode, our legal expert discusses news that one of Trump's Georgia co-defendants may have jeopardized her bond by appearing to threaten witness Ruby Freeman on Instagram. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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Tonight on the readout.

0:05.0

He was actually willing to do whatever it took to stay in power and I think although I certainly regret my support for him there's

0:16.7

no question now that anyone could say we don't know what he'll do you know

0:20.6

maybe maybe we can trust that he'll uphold the Constitution.

0:24.2

Every day he tells us what he'll do.

0:27.2

Liz Cheney speaks of her regret for supporting Trump for years and warned about the consequences if Trump returns to the White House.

0:35.0

And there is a very interesting new filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith

0:40.0

regarding Trump's long history of lying about election fraud going all the way back to 2012.

0:46.5

Also tonight one of Trump's Georgia co-defendants, remember the one he used to work for

0:50.4

Kanye, may have jeopardized her bond by appearing to threaten

0:54.4

witness Ruby Freeman on Instagram. But we begin tonight with making the case

1:02.0

against Donald Trump as more and more

1:04.8

warnings about the dangers of a second Trump presidency pile up. A new legal

1:09.3

filing today in special counsel Jacksmith's election subversion case

1:13.0

shows prosecutors hope to present a more sweeping range

1:16.2

of evidence of Trump's lies about election fraud

1:19.1

than previously thought.

1:20.8

In this new filing, federal prosecutors say the government will offer evidence

1:24.7

reflecting the defendant's historical record of making such claims

1:28.8

for example as early as November 2012 the defendant issued a public tweet making baseless

1:34.9

claims that voting machines had switched votes from then candidate Romney to then

1:40.1

candidate Obama. During the 2016 presidential campaign the

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