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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Trial Tetris from Hell! Judge rejects Trump slow-walking as RICO trial schedule takes shape

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0

We are finally getting a picture of how the racketeering and conspiracy

0:05.1

case against Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants.

0:08.4

We're finally getting a picture as to how that might play out in court in Follin County, Georgia.

0:14.2

And boy, oh boy, is it a complicated picture?

0:18.9

As you may know, two of Trump's co-defendants

0:21.6

in all of this,

0:22.5

Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesbro, lawyers.

0:26.0

They each asked for their trials to go forward next month

0:29.0

on October 23rd, ahead of everybody else's trials.

0:33.8

And today, Judge Scott McAfee officially separated

0:37.6

Miss Powell and Mr. Cheesebro's trials

0:39.5

from the rest of the people charged in this case.

0:42.0

Judge McAfee wrote in his order that separating these trials

0:45.0

is a procedural and logistical inevitability

0:48.8

and that additional divisions of these 17 defendants

0:51.8

may well be required.

0:54.3

So we may get to see this case broken up

0:56.9

into even more smaller groups of cases, which

0:59.8

sounds easy and it sounds reasonable.

1:01.6

And it also happens to be unbelievably convoluted.

1:05.2

It is literally the most head-spinning version of trial Tetris you have ever seen.

1:12.6

Here are the 19 defendants in this case,

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