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Deadline: White House

“The clawing and scratching of an increasingly desperate figure”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Government, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Msnbc, Versant, The White House, Washington Dc

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the historic indictment of the ex-president by Special Counsel Jack Smith in his investigation of the effort to overturn the 2020 election. Joined by: Andrew Weissmann, Barry Berke, Mike Schmidt, Neal Katyal, Rep. Jason Crow, Luke Broadwater, Tim Heaphy, Glenn Thrush, Joyce Vance, Glenn Kirschner, Eddie Glaude, and Ben Rhodes.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. Nice to see you. It's 4 o'clock in New York. If you listen very, very carefully,

0:12.8

you can actually hear it. Clying and scratching of an increasingly desperate figure whose political

0:18.9

strength is admittedly undiminished. But who has always, always, always possessed a primal

0:26.2

fear of criminal exposure? Today, that man stands fully exposed and the depths of his political

0:32.8

depravity and dedication to carrying out corrupt and criminal acts has been laid bare, not

0:38.5

by radical leptists, or crazed prosecutors, or even any of us in the media. But by his

0:44.5

innermost inner circle and the really, really committed ones at that, the Trump officials

0:50.0

who stayed on until the bitter last days of a bitter presidency tell us the riveting

0:55.8

story of not one, not two, but three criminal conspiracies that Trump stands accused of by the

1:03.0

United States government in essence against the United States government. But the numbers

1:08.1

Jack Smith has charged three criminal conspiracies, four criminal counts, named six unindicted

1:13.4

co-conspirators and shined a spotlight on the one man at the center of all of it. He was

1:18.3

willing to subvert democracy in order to overturn his election defeat. The indictment brought

1:24.4

by special counsel Jack Smith against Donald Trump makes the coup plot he directed Crystal

1:29.2

Clear for the world to see. Here is how the Justice Department explains the first criminal

1:34.2

count. That's the conspiracy to defraud the U.S. quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was

1:39.9

to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly

1:45.3

false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those

1:50.5

results are collected, counted and certified. The indictment then goes on to lay out the

1:56.7

details of that conspiracy and with it the entire coup plot and Donald Trump's vast criminal

2:03.7

exposure. The Justice Department alleges that Donald Trump quote enlisted six co-conspirators.

2:10.2

Co-conspirator one is Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, two is lawyer and coup plot architect

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