Trump Indictment: Episode IV - A New Hope?

Gaslit Nation

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

That familiar refrain at Gaslit Nation: So many traitors, so little time. Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis made the time for a sweeping, detailed indictment of Trump and 18 others in his Kremlin Klown Kar for trying to overturn the will of the people of Georgia. You can read the annotated indictment here. And we finally got RICO! Charged with being the crime boss that he is, Trump faces a minimum of five years in prison if found guilty of racketeering.

RICO is historically used to break up organized crime as one of the indicted, Rudy Giuliani, knows very well. Trump's longtime friend and former lawyer Giuliani used RICO to go after the Italian mafia in New York City, which made room for Trump's longtime benefactors: the Russian mafia and their easy, endless supply of money. The Idiot Sons Don Jr. and Eric have even admited the Trump family's businesses depended on Russian money.

In this fourth (and counting?) Trump Indictment special, Andrea discusses some of the red flags, some reasons for hope, and what's next as a Russian mafia asset continues to run for president as Russia wages war against the democratic world, carrying out horrific war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.

For those in New York City, join Andrea, Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of the bestselling book Stronmen: Mussolini to the Present, for a special live taping of Gaslit Nation on Monday September 18th at 7pm at the independent bookstore P&T Knitwear. There will be no livestream, unfortunately, but we'll run the episode soon after on Gaslit Nation. Patreon donors can join Andrea for a special in-person meet-up at 6pm before the event -- details to be sent out soon on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit for more info! Thank you to everyone who supports the show and makes our independent journalism possible. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Opening clip of Fani Willis https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1691458842239148032

Sean Hannity clip of Paul Manafort https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-turns-to-paul-manafort-to-defend-new-trump-georgia-charges

Trump's 4 indictments, ranked by the stakes https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/23832341/trump-charges-prison-time-sentence-indictments

Rudy Giuliani, who pioneered the use of RICO when he was a US attorney, just got indicted on

RICO charges https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-indicted-georgia-trump-rico-2023-8

I asked 11 legal experts if Trump's lawyer obstructed justice https://www.vox.com/2018/3/29/17174042/trump-pardons-manafort-flynn-mueller-probe

Paul Manafort's Book Deal May Breach His Plea Agreement https://www.justsecurity.org/79799/paul-manaforts-book-deal-may-breach-his-plea-agreement/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Every individual charge in the indictment is charged with one count of violating Georgia's
0:12.0	Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act through participation in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia, and elsewhere,
0:25.3	to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald J. Trump to seize the presidential term of
0:34.8	of office beginning on January 20th, 21.
0:40.9	Hey, everyone.
0:42.6	Welcome to what is now the fourth Gaslit Nation indictment special in this red hot American summer.
0:51.6	I'm going to give you a quick rundown of this latest indictment, but first,
0:56.2	I just want to say, hello to our YouTube viewers. Yes, Gaslit Nation is doing YouTube videos,
1:05.3	and that's important because Elon Musk, apartheid Barbie, has destroyed Gaslit Nation's reach on Twitter.
1:14.5	He came in with whatever the fuck, his whole far-right boys club.
1:19.9	It's like a literal far-right boys' club.
1:21.9	There's been reporting on how some of these Nazi influencers are being paid and so on,
1:26.4	and is boosting their traffic and suppressing
1:29.2	stuff like ours that talks about Ukraine and Russia, all those topics that Elon Musk conveniently
1:35.1	doesn't want you to know about.
1:36.9	So in order to rebuild the traffic we lost from the Elon Musk purchase of Twitter, we are
1:43.7	entering, venturing in the brave
1:45.8	world of YouTube, TikTok, and so on. How do I feel about this? Well, as a mom of two little girls
1:54.6	who, you know, he's dealing with all sorts of stuff, the genocide in Ukraine, I have somebody,
2:00.1	my family who I'm extremely emotionally dependent
2:01.9	on, close to, who is going through a horrible, horrible time with a terminal illness, has to be
2:08.4	on oxygen, and so on. So the last thing I want to do is appear before you on camera. Really the last
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