Trump could be getting his fourth indictment this week, that is right.
This time, however, they're text messages.
It's so exciting.
So this is the case in Georgia with Fani Willis.
And we know over the weekend that two witnesses received subpoenas.
That's former lieutenant governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan,
as well as George Chidi, who's an independent journalist.
So this is all sort of a precursor to this Fulton County or
excuse me, this Coffee County indictment.
And this is the one that's big, right?
You guys remember, this is the one that's Rico style, like Fani Willis is going
after, who is the Fulton County DA, is going after a lot of people.
So kind of the opposite of what Jack Smith is doing on the federal level.
So let's look into it.
Atlanta area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election
results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and
emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump's legal team to the early
January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County.
Again, [LAUGH] a dozen individuals are implicated in this.
There is video footage of this.
And BTWs, this was one of those heavily Republican counties which was
always a head scratcher to a lot of us.
So investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was
not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and
heavily Republican Coffee County, a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote.
They've gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by
Trump's team to access sensitive voting software,
according to people familiar with the situation.
Again, weird target considering how Republican it was.
But hey, look, a con is a con.
It just seemed like you're barking up the wrong tree, but that's all right.
So how did this happen?
What's the new information?
It seems like in January of 2021, right?
So a few days before the biggie, Katherine Friess, an attorney working with Giuliani,
Sidney Powell, and other Trump allies, shared a written invitation to examine
voting systems in Coffee County with a group of Trump allies.
That group included members of Sullivan Strickler, a firm hired by Trump's
attorneys to examine voting systems in the small, heavily Republican Georgia County,
according to text messages obtained by CNN.
That same day, Friess sent a letter of invitation to Coffee County, Georgia,
a letter of invitation to Coffee County, Georgia,
to former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik.
Who was working with Giuliani to find evidence that would back up their baseless
claims of potential widespread voter fraud.
Friess then notified operatives who carried out the Coffee County breach and
others working directly with Giuliani that Trump's team had secured written
permission, the texts show.
So it's just one weirdo calling on another former dude who was at the NYPD to
do the thing and blah, blah, blah.
But it's all coming from the top-down.
It seems like the text messages are linking Giuliani and obviously,
Donald Trump, and specifically to what we have video evidence of.
Which was a bunch of people entering this polling station and
effectively taking computers out of it, the stuff that Republicans
were dying to find Democrats doing there's actual evidence of.
Rayvana, I'm curious about your thoughts about the strategy here by DA Fani Willis
going after all of the goons versus just trying to focus on the big goon.
>> Speaker 2: I think it's an excellent strategy.
I wanted to see at the federal level more of a wide net
cast on who they can implicate.
Cuz so many people have been implicated.
They've really kept it narrow to Trump and his aides when I think that there are so
many more people that could have been brought in.
Of course, a DA at this level,
she probably has further aspirations in her carrier.
Of course, every DA has that, probably,
she's gonna use it to catapult herself know a bigger role in the future.
But I'm glad that she's doing it in this fashion because all of these people have
tried to undermine our democracy and I'll say in the dumbest ways possible.
The least tactful criminals all got together.
Rudy Giuliani is six Roman cokes deep at 7 AM sending out emails,
okay, it's time to do our crimes.
And everyone is replying, yes,
surely now is the correct moment to execute our criminal plan.
So I mean, to an extent, the DA,
she has to bring in all these people because it was so absolutely brazen.
And I'm glad that she's being less specific in her targets because all of
these people, like I said,
they did coordinate to undermine democracy in our country.
And chose not just the dumbest way to collude to do it, but
the dumbest possible avenue through which they could try to overturn the election.
Again, it's just inexplicable that the focus was this one county where Trump won.
>> Speaker 1: Trump won, but I think maybe that was the tactic.
It was just, well, we know we can probably get away with this here because it's
the one county where people are so loyal to Donald Trump that they'll do anything.
And so even though it doesn't even help us strategically, just do something, right?
And I'm sure that was coming from Donald Trump, yeah, again, raging and
throwing his ketchup filled steak at the wall and asking to find those votes,
which we're gonna get into later.
But in case you guys needed some refreshing,
this was a January 6 hearing that specifically talked about this effort from
the top down to actually seize those voting machines.
Take a look. >> Speaker 3: There was a point at which
the President said something about why don't you guys seize machines.
>> Speaker 4: Mr. Rosen,
the President asked you to seize voting machines from state governments.
What was your response to that request?
>> Speaker 5: We had seen nothing improper with regard to the voting machines.
And I told him that the real experts at that had been at DHS,
and they had briefed us that they had looked at it and
that there was nothing wrong with the voting machines.
And so that was not something that was appropriate to do.
>> Speaker 4: Mr. Dunn, can you explain what the President did after he was told
that the Justice Department would not seize voting machines?
>> Speaker 3: President was very agitated by the acting Attorney General's response.
The Acting Attorney General said that the DHS,
Department of Homeland Security, has expertise in machines and
certifying them and making sure that the states are operating them properly.
And since DHS had been mentioned,
the President yelled out to his secretary, get Ken Cuccinelli on the phone.
>> Speaker 1: Right, so that's a bunch of attorney generals and DOJ officials.
Which, I mean, covering the January 6 hearings, they went on every kind of wild
goose chase to please the President within what they felt was legally okay to do.
And seizing the voting machines was not one of those things, sadly.
Watching a bunch of weird YouTube links, they did it.
They tried to follow up on some of the Italygate stuff ,didn't bear out, but
that one they could not comply with.
But it was floated, right?
It was floated.
And so you know how mob bosses work.
You're not gonna do this for me, I'm gonna find someone who will.
And that's someone who will, Rudy Giuliani, this woman, Friess.
And Sidney Powell, I mean, Sidney Powell was just ready, born ready, drunk on life,
doesn't need those rum and Cokes before 6 in the morning.