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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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Former President Trump will be arrested and arraigned tomorrow at a Washington, DC federal courthouse after being indicted on four criminal charges by a grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Prosecutors allege that the former president “was determined to remain in power” after losing the election. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig tells Anderson Cooper what is expected to happen in court tomorrow. Plus, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton joins AC360 to react to the indictment.
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0:00.0 | Tonight on 360, the former president chooses to be arraigned in person in Washington as |
0:06.1 | the government's case and his defense takes shape. |
0:08.6 | We'll look ahead to tomorrow's court appearance with former Trump National Security Advisor |
0:11.6 | John Bolton. |
0:12.6 | Later, Trump's trial judged Tonya Chutkin, what we know about her history with the former |
0:16.8 | president and the sentences she's already given other January 6 defendants. |
0:21.2 | And in Ukraine, a remarkable rescue, Ukrainian soldier saved with the help of drone, of a drone |
0:27.1 | and delivered medical supplies and water. |
0:30.6 | Good evening. |
0:31.6 | Tomorrow, the former president of the United States will make his second appearance in a federal |
0:34.7 | court as an alleged felon. |
0:36.5 | The first was in Miami in the documents case, until Donald Trump in the 234 years since |
0:42.2 | George Washington was inaugurated, no holder of the office has had to do that even once. |
0:47.4 | But tomorrow afternoon at four, if the schedule holds, the 44th president since George Washington |
0:51.9 | will enter a federal courthouse in Washington, just a short walk from the Capitol, he'll be |
0:57.2 | asked by a federal magistrate, not the trial judge, to plead to four counts, detailed in |
1:01.8 | a 45-page indictment, connected to his attempt to overturn the election that he lost. |
1:06.4 | An effort, this special counsel, Jack Smith, said yesterday, was, quote, fueled by lies. |
1:11.2 | And criminal or not, there were plenty of those lies. |
1:14.6 | The indictment identifies 21 separate lies, the former president told lies about non-existent |
1:19.4 | voter fraud, about ballot dumps that did not happen, lies that former vice president |
1:23.6 | Pence had the power, which he did not, to reject by an electoral votes. |
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