I'm looking at this Georgia prosecutor probe and the indictment.
It's the President Trump along with 19 other people.
What do we know of the indictment? So, yeah, a total of 19 people indicted.
The indictment also mentions there are 30 unindicted co-conspirators.
There are 41 counts in the indictment. Those include racketeering, conspiracy
to commit fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, to influence witnesses,
perjury in the racketeering count alone.
There are 161 different acts, criminal, allegedly criminal acts laid out by the
prosecutor. The people indicted include, in addition
to the former president, his personal lawyer, former New York
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who was not one of the
people indicted in the special counsel Jack Smith's case recently.
So that's that's different. And then there are some other people who
are also indicted in the Jack Smith indictment, such as Sidney Powell
and a few other people.
So another number to keep in mind here is 5
to 20, because 5 to 20 years, that's the potential prison term for racketeering
violations alone. The next step here will be for the
former president to appear in court for an arraignment and then we'll hear more
details. This will be the fourth indictment that
the former president has had on criminal charges, including the two charges by
the special counsel, Jack Smith, as well as the New York attorney, district
Attorney Alvin Bragg, on the alleged hush money payments to the adult film
star. That
is interesting. Of course, as these mines you said, this
is the fourth indictment. He continues to campaign for re-election
now. He can go right the way through
for as long as these legal challenges are in front of him, he can continue to
campaign racketeering. Is the central court, is the central
judgment here? It would seem to be there are 161
specific acts of furtherance of that conspiracy.
What actually happens next? Because you've got these four
indictments, do they all just run along? Do you think that they get pushed
legally into the long grass until we get to the election?
Or what kind of theater do you think that we get between now and the
election, Bruce? Well, it is a good question, Manase,
because it is a very busy calendar that the former president is facing in terms
of court dates. So in addition to the the four cases
that we've mentioned, there are also several civil trials involving the
former president. Figuring out how where this trial, where
this trial would fit in in the calendar is something that remains to be seen.
But the the issue now is how many of these trials, if any, of them, can
actually take place before the primaries.
The Iowa caucuses are scheduled to begin early next year.
The Republican convention will be in the summertime.
Obviously, the election in the fall. One thing that's very important about
this Georgia indictment, as opposed to, say, the Jack Smith indictments, is that
if Donald Trump were to win the presidency, he would be able to pardon
himself under the Constitution, potentially for any federal crimes or if
a Republican, another Republican, were to win the presidency.
Many of them have said that they would want to pardon former President Trump if
he were convicted in any of those federal cases.
There's no ability for the president to pardon someone in Georgia on a state on
a state charge. So this would be beyond the reach of
president former President Trump if he were elected again, or if any of the
Republicans are elected, they would not be able to pardon him on the in the
Georgia case.