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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Donald Trump is being prosecuted under RICO law in Georgia, wherein District Attorney Fanni Willis has charged him and parts of his campaigns as criminal conspirators in a criminal enterprise.
What is RICO law, and does Trump qualify for prosecution under it? Attorney Paul Townsend rejoins to discuss.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and there |
0:17.8 | ain't been a jury yet that's managed to convict me. Gang, we're looking at some weird, weird scenarios in the upcoming election |
0:26.1 | this year. I mean, straight up on its face before we would get into today's stuff. You realize |
0:31.2 | that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are both older than Bill |
0:36.3 | Clinton. Did you know that? Bill Clinton, remember that guy? He is younger than the |
0:41.7 | two front runners. That's weird. |
0:43.0 | Biden was a senator back when Richard Nixon was the president. |
0:47.0 | That's not even what we're going to talk about today. |
0:50.0 | We're going to talk about one of the cases facing Donald Trump. |
0:53.0 | He has four cases that are currently broiling, |
0:57.0 | and while they will probably be resolved after the election, |
1:01.0 | there is a real possibility that the Republican front runner for president will have to run for office from prison, |
1:09.0 | where alternately that he will serve as president in prison. |
1:14.3 | So today we are going to focus specifically on the case leveled against him in the state of |
1:18.8 | Georgia. |
1:20.0 | If Trump is convicted there under RICO law, no one in the federal government could pardon him. |
1:26.2 | He could not pardon himself if re-elected president. |
1:29.2 | He could not hold a sleight of hand and declare himself temporarily incapacitated from a colonoscopy |
1:36.0 | and make his vice president acting president and have him or her pardon him. |
1:40.0 | Even Joe Biden would not have the ability to pardon him if he is reelected, even if Biden wants to pull a kind of Gerald Ford. |
1:46.7 | I know this is unpopular, but it's for the good of the country type thing. |
1:50.0 | Georgia law is sovereign in Georgia, and so if Trump is convicted there he goes to prison there |
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