Trump likely waiting to see whether Willis and Smith increase his indictments before end of summer
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout, the work is accomplished. We've been working for two and a half years. |
| 0:09.2 | We're ready to go. With George as Fannie Willis apparently potentially maybe |
| 0:14.6 | ready to hand Trump a potential fourth indictment, Carlos de Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago manager |
| 0:20.4 | accused of scheming with Trump to cover up his perloing that classified documents, |
| 0:25.9 | makes his first appearance in court. Also tonight, the incredible shrinking campaign |
| 0:30.8 | polls show Ron DeSantis trailing Trump by a mile with a former supporter saying, |
| 0:35.1 | Ron just doesn't understand the game and doesn't connect with voters. Plus, the arrogance of |
| 0:41.0 | Samuel Alito saying Congress has no business imposing ethics rules on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:47.6 | You know, to stop him and to sidekick Clarence Thomas from accepting fancy gifts from their wealthy |
| 0:53.2 | benefactors. And good evening everyone, I am back from a long weekend in the glorious British |
| 1:00.9 | Virgin Islands. And you know how like a summer vacation long or short has this like abrupt ending |
| 1:06.5 | where reality kicks back in? Well in this case, reality has a familiar vibe. It is called the |
| 1:12.9 | waiting game. And that is where we begin The Readout tonight. For Donald Trump, that means waiting to |
| 1:18.2 | see whether Fulton County, Georgia district attorney, Foddy Willis, and or special counsel, |
| 1:23.2 | Jack Smith will run up his tally of indictments to three or even four before the end of the summer. |
| 1:29.6 | With both prosecutors focusing on his efforts to overturn his failed 2020 re-election bid. |
| 1:36.4 | This morning, a superior court judge in Georgia rejected Trump's latest efforts to stop Willis' |
| 1:41.2 | investigation that after Willis said this over the weekend. |
| 2:11.7 | Federal charges for that same offense trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. |
| 2:16.5 | But for other people not named Trump, like his co-defendant in the Classified Documents case, |
| 2:21.6 | the only waiting game was about waiting to find a local attorney willing to take on their case. |
| 2:25.6 | Because the timing between allegedly lying to the FBI and indictment felt |
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