Why is Donald Trump being charged like a mafia boss?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump. Charged with racketeering in Georgia after allegedly attempting to meddle with election results - and he's now got 91 counts against his name... and counting.
Will this change anything? And what about the whataboutery with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden? We speak to Republican strategist who worked in George W. Bush's White House, Ron Christie, Adam Klasfeld, legal correspondent who's followed all 91 charges closely, and Christopher Steele, the British spy who triggered the snowball that led to Trump's first impeachment whilst he was President - for alleged collusion with Russia.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Rory Symon
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm sorry to interrupt you for one second. I just want to bring the news. The indictment has been |
| 0:18.0 | unsealed and CNN can report that Donald Trump has been indicted by this grand jury in Fulton County. |
| 0:27.4 | Another day, another indictment against Donald Trump. |
| 0:31.4 | But what happened in Georgia last night was anything but ordinary. |
| 0:36.3 | These are an exceptional set of charges that have been laid |
| 0:39.9 | against Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators using laws that were designed to crack down on the |
| 0:48.6 | mafia, the mob. And Donald Trump is posited in this indictment as the head of a criminal organisation. |
| 0:57.1 | These state charges could be the most dramatic yet. |
| 1:01.0 | They came just before midnight last night. |
| 1:05.2 | It really is Donald Trump's Midnight Pain from Georgia. |
| 1:10.2 | Welcome to Newsagents USA. |
| 1:17.3 | This is the Newsagent's USA with Emily Maitidless and John Sobel. |
| 1:31.0 | It's John in Newsagents USAHQ. |
| 1:34.3 | Emily is on holiday. |
| 1:37.4 | Now, when he was president, it was really striking when Donald Trump was in a corner, |
| 1:42.4 | how often he used the language of sort of Goodfellas, the Godfather, the Sopranos. |
| 1:49.2 | So when Michael Cohen, his attorney, decided to help prosecutors, he'd flipped. He was a dirty rat. |
| 1:56.7 | When one of his campaign chiefs held firm and went to prison for his crime, he praised him |
| 2:02.5 | for not having broken. And now Donald Trump himself finds himself the subjects of RICO laws, |
| 2:10.7 | laws that were introduced, the Racketeer-influenced and corrupt Organizations Act, to bring him to book. |
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