What Next - Fani Willis Takes on Trump
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The fourth shoe dropped this week, when Fulton County DA Fani Willis announced Donald Trump’s latest indictment, charging the former president, along with 18 others, for engaging in a sprawling criminal conspiracy to disenfranchise Georgia voters. Trump has been responding by lashing out against Willis and voters in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee.
Guest: Rick Hasen, professor of law at UCLA and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Nike. |
| 0:04.2 | It's packed to school season, and you and your child might be feeling a bit anxious. |
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| 0:30.0 | On Monday, just before midnight, Fulton County District Attorney Fawni Willis held a press conference. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm here with the prosecutors and investigators who have worked diligently on the investigation |
| 0:53.7 | of criminal attempts to interfere in the administration of Georgia's 2020 presidential election. |
| 1:02.2 | She announced what we've all heard by now that Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators have |
| 1:08.0 | been charged with engaging in a sprawling criminal conspiracy to disenfranchise Georgia voters. |
| 1:14.8 | The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election |
| 1:21.7 | challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn |
| 1:29.7 | Georgia's presidential election result. |
| 1:33.5 | Willis has been practicing law for more than 20 years. |
| 1:37.2 | She's been the Fulton County DA since 2021, but the former president has been attacking |
| 1:42.7 | her for months, calling her a rabid partisan, a radical Democrat, even a racist. |
| 1:49.9 | I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. |
| 1:54.1 | The law is completely nonpartisan. |
| 1:56.2 | That's how decisions are made in every case. |
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