![]() ![]() ![]() But just explain racketeering, RICO, as a legal concept, how it applies here, and why it seems so central to this indictment. You had warned US that this would be the district attorney’s approach in this case, when we talked to you about this investigation, many, many months ago. It’s the story, according to these prosecutors, of a group of people who got together at a set period of time and committed a number of acts in furtherance of a corrupt aim, which was to overturn the very narrow election loss of Donald J. So right there, you have in very plain language a real narrative. ![]() That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity, in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the state of Georgia, and in other states.” Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. The introduction states, “Defendant Donald Trump lost the United States presidential election, held on November 3, 2020. And if you’ll give me one moment, I’ll find it for you. There’s a really interesting passage in the very front of the indictment that explains what this corrupt scheme was. Which is that she is very fond of the RICO statute, the racketeering statute in Georgia, that allows prosecutors to tie together all kinds of different crimes and actions in one big package and show that there’s an organization that exists to carry out a corrupt scheme, and that’s in fact exactly what she did here. And in a lot of ways, Michael, it is exactly what the prosecutor here in Fulton County, Fani Willis, insinuated if not promised. This is a state of Georgia indictment that charges former President Trump and 18 of his associates and allies of a really broad range of crimes, all of them in an effort to overturn the election in Georgia. I want you to give us an overview of this fourth indictment against Donald Trump, which we got just about two hours ago. So I’ll spare you any small talk and just jump right in. So Richard, it’s almost 1:00 AM on Tuesday morning, because grand juries don’t care about newspaper deadlines or journalists’ sleep schedule. I spoke with my colleague, Richard Fausset, about why of all the charges now piling up against Trump this one may be the hardest for him to ever escape. Specifically, the indictment brings felony charges against Donald John Trump, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, John Charles Eastman. On Monday night, Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time since leaving office, this time by a local prosecutor for his attempt, along with 18 alleged co-conspirators, to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia. Today, a Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment charging 19 individuals with violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state. michael barbaroįrom “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Transcript A Law Used Against the Mafia - and Now Trump Why the indictment in Georgia might be the hardest for the former president to escape.
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