The Georgia Indictment May Be Trump's Most Difficult Legal Challenge
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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The indictment also includes charges against former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis, and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, along with a number of so-called fake electors.
In charging former President Donald Trump and his allies, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is relying on Georgia's broad set of RICO anti-racketeering laws
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| 0:00.0 | The fourth criminal indictment against former president Donald Trump is the most sweeping |
| 0:12.9 | one yet. |
| 0:14.3 | The indictment brings felony charges against Donald, John Trump, Rudolph, William, Lewis, |
| 0:23.5 | Giuliani, John Charles Eastman. |
| 0:28.3 | It is Fulton County, Georgia district attorney, Fanny Willis announcing the indictment |
| 0:33.5 | later on Monday after a grand jury there charged Trump and 18 others, some well-known |
| 0:39.3 | aides and lawyers for the former president. |
| 0:42.2 | With violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results |
| 0:51.8 | of the 2020 presidential election in this state. |
| 0:56.0 | The indictments are the result of a two-year investigation, which all started in part |
| 1:01.4 | because of a now-famous phone call. |
| 1:03.6 | I want this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. |
| 1:06.6 | There's no way I lost Georgia. |
| 1:08.4 | There's no way. |
| 1:09.4 | We want by hundreds of thousands of votes. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm just going by small numbers when you add them up there many times the 11,000, but |
| 1:17.4 | I want that state by hundreds of thousands of votes. |
| 1:20.5 | That's then President Trump, speaking back in January 2021. |
| 1:25.1 | On the phone to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Reffensberger, a fellow Republican, and |
| 1:30.1 | his ask was pretty clear. |
| 1:31.8 | Look, all I want to do is this. |
| 1:34.1 | I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state. |
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