Trump Faces Charges in Georgia Election Conspiracy

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Former President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in to face criminal charges for the 4th time this year. This time for allegedly running a conspiracy to overturn election results here in Georgia after the 2020 election.

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00:00 So far, multiple defendants have turned themselves in here already to officials at the Fulton

00:05 County Jail.

00:06 But of course, as we all know, today is the main event.

00:09 Donald Trump will land here sometime today here in Atlanta to formally face a fourth

00:13 set of criminal charges, all of it related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020

00:19 presidential election results right here in Battleground, Georgia.

00:23 I just want to find 11,780 votes.

00:29 That infamous recorded phone call with Georgia officials may be the best known evidence in

00:34 the case, but it is just one part of what prosecutors describe as a criminal enterprise

00:40 and a sprawling conspiracy to overturn the results in Georgia, an increasingly purple

00:45 state that President Biden won by just 12,000 votes.

00:49 Most people understand what happened.

00:51 That was a rigged election, and it's a shame that we had to go through it.

00:55 It's very bad for our country.

00:56 >> Now facing 91 criminal charges across four cases in four jurisdictions, the nation's

01:02 45th president will arrive at the city's notorious Fulton County Jail today, accused of heading

01:08 up a broad conspiracy to undo his defeat.

01:12 Trump is facing 13 charges in the case, the most serious of which is violating the state's

01:17 racketeering act, a charge usually associated with mob bosses, not the former leader of

01:23 the free world.

01:25 Prosecutors say the broader conspiracy included pressuring state officials, harassing election

01:30 workers, appointing fake electors, and even accessing voting machines in Coffey County,

01:36 Georgia, to retrieve voting data.

01:38 Republican officials though here in Georgia, including Governor Brian Kemp, have defended

01:42 the state's election as free and fair.

01:45 >> The defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential

01:53 election result.

01:55 >> Willis spent two and a half years investigating the case after that recorded phone call became

02:00 public.

02:01 She secured grand jury indictments earlier this month, giving all the defendants until

02:05 noon tomorrow to surrender.

02:08 Former President Trump, the current front runner for the 2024 GOP nomination, has blasted

02:13 the 100-page indictment as a politically motivated witch hunt, and called Willis a radical left

02:19 DA.

02:20 He said Wednesday he would quote, proudly be arrested today, and touted himself as a

02:25 defender of election integrity.

02:28 America has watched Trump's legal troubles multiply in recent months, from Florida to

02:33 New York.

02:34 But this fourth case is far more sprawling, entangling 18 other defendants, including

02:39 lawyers and other aides, many of whom have already surrendered and been granted bond,

02:45 including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who turned himself in yesterday,

02:49 but remains defiant.

02:52 >> People like to say I'm different.

02:53 I'm the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the mafia, that made New York City the safest

02:59 city in America, reduced crime more than any mayor in the history of any city, anywhere.

03:05 And I'm fighting for justice.

03:06 I have been from the first moment I represented Donald Trump.

03:09 >> Trump has already been granted a $200,000 bond in the case, the highest amount of any

03:14 defendant so far.

03:16 Atlanta officials have vowed to treat Trump like any other defendant once he arrives,

03:21 meaning that fingerprints and the former president's first ever mugshot are expected.

03:27 >> Even before landing here in Atlanta today, President Trump managed to make news announcing

03:31 that he is changing lead attorneys when it comes to who's handling this case in Georgia.

03:37 Rob Nelson, Scription News.

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