Trump Charged In Georgia, Alongside Election Subversion Allies
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Dan here in Hobbiton, New Zealand. I am back again after our honeymoon 14 years |
| 0:05.7 | go with my wife and my daughter, Arwen. This podcast was recorded at 1014 AM Eastern on |
| 0:12.4 | Tuesday, August 15th. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I will be exploring |
| 0:18.3 | Hobbit holes. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:24.3 | New Zealand is definitely on my bucket list of places I'd like to travel to. I've never |
| 0:28.3 | been. Oh, the green hills. I wish I were rolling around them right now. Hey, there. It's |
| 0:33.1 | the MPR politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Kerry Johnson. I cover |
| 0:37.5 | the Justice Department. And Stephen Fowler of Georgia Public Broadcasting is here again. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello, Stephen. Hello. And last night, a Georgia grand jury indicted Donald Trump and |
| 0:48.0 | 18 others for a scheme to overturn the state's 2020 election results, implicating the former |
| 0:53.9 | president as the head of a sweeping conspiracy. Here's Fulton County District Attorney, |
| 0:59.4 | Fanny Willis speaking late Monday night after the indictment was unsealed. Specifically, |
| 1:04.1 | the participants in association took various actions in Georgia and elsewhere to block |
| 1:11.7 | the county of the votes of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners |
| 1:17.6 | of Georgia's 2020 general election. Kerry, let's start with the charges. All 19 individuals |
| 1:25.2 | were charged under the state's Rico statute. What is that? And why is it significant in |
| 1:30.3 | this case? This is a very broad state record hearing law that dates back more than 40 years. |
| 1:36.3 | It makes it a crime to participate in a criminal enterprise through a pattern of activity. |
| 1:42.9 | Prosecutors generally prove that by mentioning a number of acts and furtherins of the conspiracy, |
| 1:49.2 | as the lawyers say. So you don't have to be engaged in every single action as a defendant, |
| 1:55.5 | but you do have to have some kind of common goal. And Fanny Willis and the grand jury in Fulton |
| 2:02.3 | County say the common goal here was to try to keep Donald Trump in power and to disenfranchise |
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