Trump has 10 days to turn himself in as Georgia governor says 2020 election ‘not stolen’ – live

We’re wrapping up our live blog for the day, but will continue to bring updates on the Guardian’s home page. Here’s a recap of what’s happened today, in the aftermath of the late-night indictment in Georgia unveiling criminal charges against Donald Trump and 18 codefendants over efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

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• The 98-page indictmenthanded down by a Fulton county grand jury includes 41 counts of crimes, including 13 against Trump. It details lies the former president and his co-defendants told the public in an effort to keep him in power.

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• The charges were brought via Georgia’s Rico act, which has typically been used to go after the mafia.

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• Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff and one of his codefendants in Georgia, has filed to move the case into federal court – something that Trump himself is expected to replicate in an effort to seek a friendlier jury and land a judge that he appointed.

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• Another codefendant, John Eastman, who is considered one of the main architects of Trump’s strategy to overturn the 2020 election, also plans to fight the indictment.

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• Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would present an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday by saying: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.”

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• Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, made a brief statement saying: “The most basic principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the Constitution and rule of law. You either have it, or you don’t.”

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• Republican politicians, including candidates for the presidency in 2024, are seeking to defend Donald Trump over the indictment in Georgia.

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• Hillary Clintonsaid she did not “feel any satisfaction” about Donald Trump’s extreme legal predicament and instead felt “great profound sadness”

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• In the separate federal case over Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, Carlos de Oliveira, the property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, pleaded not guilty to multiple obstruction-related offenses.

  – Guardian staff

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Mark Meadows, one of 19 people including Donald Trump who were criminally charged over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, has filed to move the case into federal court.

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Meadows served as White House chief of staff under Trump. His lawyers have filed the petition to go from state to the US district court for the northern district of Georgia, arguing for the switch based on the idea that the charges stem from Meadows conduct in his capacity as an officer of the federal government.

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Trump is expected to make a similar move, which would allow him to seek a potentially friendlier jury pool and the chance of landing a judge that he appointed.

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“Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President’s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President,” Terwilliger wrote in the filing.

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The filing also indicates that Meadows plans to file a motion to dismiss the state’s case.

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The charges against Trump were brought via Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act, which essentially allows prosecutors to link together different crimes committed by different people and bring criminal charges against a larger criminal enterprise. The law requires prosecutors to show the existence of a criminal enterprise that has committed at least two underlying crimes.

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Prosecutors have long used the federal Rico Act to go after the mafia. But Georgia’s version is even more expansive than the federal statute. It allows prosecutors in the state to bring racketeering charges if a defendant attempts or solicits a crime, even if they don’t bring charges for those crimes themselves.

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In the indictment by the state of Georgia, the state wrote: “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. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity.”

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These are the people involved in the high-profile election investigation that could have far-reaching implications for Donald Trump, who may well face jail time if convicted, and his chances of winning the Republican nomination in 2024.

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Fani Willis

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Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis, a famously tough prosecutor against gangs and organized crime, is overseeing the election investigation, which she launched in 2021, just weeks after being sworn in. A career Atlanta-area criminal prosecutor, Willis has been known to aggressively use Rico, an anti-racketeering law that is stronger in Georgia than under federal statute.

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Trump and his lawyers have sought to disqualify Willis from carrying out the investigation, filing motions to do so in March and July. Trump branded Willis a “young, ambitious, Radical Left Democrat ‘Prosecutor’” in a Truth Social post last year. Willis, a Democrat, is the first Black woman to serve as Fulton county DA.

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Robert McBurney

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The Fulton county superior court judge Robert McBurney was selected to supervise the special grand jury that put together recommendations for Willis’s investigation into Trump’s behavior surrounding election results. McBurney released a partial version of the panel’s final report in February, keeping the majority of its findings under seal. Trump’s lawyers targeted McBurney, a former prosecutor, for approving Willis’s special grand jury request, asking that he disqualify her from the case.

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The grand juries

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Willis requested a special grand jury, assembled last May to aid her investigation into Trump and his allies’ meddling with election results. After eight months and 75 witness interviews, the jurors compiled a report with recommendations for the case. The panel was dissolved in January. Afterward, the foreperson, Emily Kohrs, hinted they recommended more than a dozen indictments, drawing backlash for her media blitz.

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McBurney has empaneled two regular grand juries – and one is likely to consider charges against Trump and his allies.

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Joe Biden said he will travel to Hawaii to visit the devastation left behind by the country’s deadliest wildfires in over a century, killing at least 99 people and reducing neighborhoods to ash.

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“My wife, Jill, and I are going to travel to Hawaii as soon as we can,” Biden said in his first public comments on the disaster since late last week.

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I don’t want to get in the way – I’ve been to too many disaster areas, but I want to go and make sure we got everything they need. I want to be sure we don’t disrupt the ongoing recovery efforts.

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President Biden says he and First Lady Jill Biden will go to Hawaii “as soon as we can”:

“I don't want to get in the way. I've been to too many disaster areas … I want to be sure we don't disrupt the ongoing recovery efforts.” pic.twitter.com/ydZ8M3xpXv

— The Recount (@therecount) August 15, 2023

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Deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton said earlier today that the White House was having “active conversations” about when the Bidens could visit.

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Biden’s remarks at a wind and electric power manufacturing plant in Milwaukee were his first comments on the Maui wildfires since last week, when he declared a federal emergency. The period of silence drew criticism from Republicans, including Donald Trump.

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Hello again, US politics live blog readers, it’s been a lively day so far as the ripples continue to spread from the late-night indictment unveiled in Georgia against Donald Trump and 18 codefendants, accusing them of an organized racket to overturn Trump’s defeat by Biden in one of the decisive state results of the 2020 presidential election.

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There will be a lot more news in the coming hours and we’ll continue to bring it to you as it happens. US president Joe Biden is about to speak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Here’s where things stand:

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• Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would present an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday by saying: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.”

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• Hunter Biden’s lead criminal defense attorney, Christopher Clark,asked a federal judge for permission to withdraw from the criminal case involving his client on the grounds he might be called to testify as a witness in future proceedings.

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• Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, made a brief statement saying: “The most basic principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the Constitution and rule of law. You either have it, or you don’t.”

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• Carlos de Oliveira, the property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, pleaded not guilty to multiple obstruction-related offenses in the case related to the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

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• Republican politicians, including candidates for the presidency in 2024, are seeking to defend Donald Trump over the indictment in Georgia.

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• Hillary Clintonsaid she did not “feel any satisfaction” about Donald Trump’s extreme legal predicament and instead felt “great profound sadness”.

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• Donald Trumpsaid he would present an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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Yes. The US constitution does not prohibit anyone charged with a crime, nor anyone convicted of one, from holding office.

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The 14th amendment, however, does bar anyone who has taken an oath to protect the United States and engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding office.

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Relying on that provision, a slew of separate civil lawsuits in state courts are expected in the near future to try to bar Trump from holding office.

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Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, has responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would present an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday.

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In a post alongside a screenshot of the former president’s claim, Kemp wrote:

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The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.

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The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.

For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward – under oath – and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I… pic.twitter.com/jaru2iBDo7

— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) August 15, 2023

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Hunter Biden’s lead criminal defense attorney, Christopher Clark, asked a federal judge for permission to withdraw from the case on the grounds he might be called to testify as a witness in future proceedings.

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Clark’s notice to the court is the latest development in the long-running negotiation between the justice department and Hunter Biden, who is accused of misdemeanor tax crimes and a felony gun-related charge.

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In a court filing on Sunday, lawyers for Hunter Biden alleged that prosecutors reneged on a plea deal that would have resolved the charges against him. Part of the plea deal which unexpectedly fell apart in July remains “valid and binding”, they argued.

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Federal prosecutors, led by US attorney David Weiss, had on Friday asked the court to cancel its request that the two sides reach a renewed agreement on the deal “since there is no longer a plea agreement or diversion agreement for the Court to consider”. But Hunter Biden’s lawyers said the guilty pleas were “separate and independent” from the diversion agreement that is set to drop his felony gun charges after two years. They said the diversion agreement was executed at the July hearing even as the overall deal collapsed and Hunter Biden intends to abide by its terms.

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In his withdrawal request, Clark said his stepping down from the case “is necessitated by recent developments in the matter”.

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Weiss, a Trump appointee who has been investigating Hunter Biden in a Delaware district court since 2018, has asked the court to dismiss the case so that federal prosecutors can bring additional tax charges against him outside of the state, including in California and DC, and bring the case to trial.

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This latest indictment against Donald Trump is the second case that has sought any kind of criminal accountability for his attempt to overturn the election. It is the fourth time Trump has been charged with a crime this year.

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Earlier in August, special counsel Jack Smith filed four federal charges against Trump for trying to overturn the election. Trump has pleaded not guilty to those charges, and Smith has moved to set a trial date for 2 January. If Trump were elected president while the case was still pending, he would almost certainly move to fire Smith and get rid of the charges. He could also theoretically pardon himself if he has been convicted. The Georgia case is different because Trump cannot interfere in the case, even if he is president, and cannot issue a pardon.

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In June, Smith charged Trump with illegally retaining national defense information under the Espionage Act and obstructing the government’s attempt to retrieve the documents. Trump pleaded not guilty.

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In March, Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan. Those charges are connected to a $130,000 payment he made to Stormy Daniels, a porn star, with whom he is alleged to have had an extramarital affair. Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney at the time, paid the money to Daniels through a shell company and Trump reimbursed him, cataloguing it as a legal expense. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, said that amounted to falsifying business records. Trump has pleaded not guilty.

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Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, made a brief statement this morning following last night’s indictment.

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“The most basic principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the Constitution and rule of law,” he said.

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You either have it, or you don’t.

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On 2 January 2021, Trump called Raffensperger, the Republican who serves as Georgia’s top election official, and asked him to overturn the election.

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“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state,” Trump said to Raffensperger on the call. Raffensperger refused.

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Donald Trump lost Georgia to Joe Biden in the November 2020 presidential election. After the election, Trump and his allies made an aggressive but unsuccessful push to invalidate the election results in Georgia as part of an effort to overturn his defeat nationally.

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On 2 January 2021, Trump called Brad Raffensperger, the Republican who serves as Georgia’s top election official, and asked him to overturn the election. “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state,” Trump said to Raffensperger on the call. Raffensperger refused.

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The call came as Trump and allies, including Rudy Giuliani,were spreading outlandish lies about the election in Georgia in order to seed doubt about the results. Most notably, Giuliani and others amplified misleading surveillance video from State Farm Arena they claimed showed election workers taking ballots out from under a table and counting them after observers left for the evening. The claim was false – counting had not stopped for the evening when the ballots were tallied.

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Just as he did in other swing states, Trump convened a slate of fake electors in Georgia. The group of 16 people met discreetly in the Georgia capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate affirming Trump’s purported victory that was sent to the National Archives. Some involved in the scheme have said they merely believed they were preserving Trump’s options amid pending litigation. The alternate slate of electors, both in Georgia and elsewhere, would later become a linchpin of Trump’s effort to overturn the election.

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One of those fake electors, Cathy Latham, also was involved in a separate incident in which Trump allies obtained unauthorized access to Dominion voting equipment. On 7 January 2021, Latham helped a firm hired by the Trump campaign get access to voting equipment in Coffee county, a rural county 200 miles south-east of Atlanta. The data was uploaded to a password-protected site, where other election deniers could download it as they sought to prove the baseless allegation that Dominion voting machines had been rigged and cost Trump the election.

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Carlos de Oliveira, the property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, pleaded not guilty multiple obstruction-related offenses related to the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

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De Oliveira entered a not-guilty plea in a Florida courtroom on Tuesday to four criminal counts related to an alleged attempt to delete surveillance footage from the Mar-a-Lago club. It was De Oliveira’s third appearance in the case after he twice failed to come to court with a local attorney.

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De Oliveira was added as a third defendant in Trump’s complicated classified documents indictment late last month. He faces charges such as trying to obstruct justice, concealing records and documents, and making false statements to the FBI.

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The case, which concerns the former president’s handling of top secret documents, also includes Waltine Nauta, Trump’s personal valet and “bodyman”. The indictment said De Oliveira helped Nauta move 30 boxes of documents, from Trump’s residence to a storage room, and asked the person responsible for surveillance at the resort to delete the footage on behalf of Trump. He was also accused of draining the resort pool to flood the rooms that contained surveillance footage.

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Trump and Nauta have also pleaded not guilty. The former president has denied any wrongdoing.

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Republicans rallied to Donald Trump’s defense after the former president was indicted on 13 criminal charges in Georgia over his attempt to overturn his defeat there by Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

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Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the US House, said:

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Justice should be blind, but Biden has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election.

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Referring to Fani Willis of Fulton county, McCarthy continued

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Now a radical [district attorney] in Georgia is following Biden’s lead by attacking President Trump and utilizing it to fundraise her political profession. Individuals see by this determined sham.

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New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a member of Home management, insisted Trump “had each authorized proper to problem the outcomes of the election” he conclusively misplaced.

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She added:

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This blatant election interference by the far left is not going to work, President Trump will defeat these bogus prices and win again the White Home in 2024.

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Within the Senate, Ted Cruz of Texas, in 2016 Trump’s closest rival for the Republican presidential nomination, stated he was “pissed”.

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Cruz additionally referred to as the Georgia indictment “disgraceful” and repeated McCarthy’s “weaponization” criticism – a celebration speaking level.

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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump ally who briefly deserted himover the January 6 assault on Congress however swiftly got here again onside, advised Fox Information: “The American individuals can determine whether or not they need [Trump] to be president or not.

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This must be determined on the poll field and never in a bunch of liberal jurisdictions making an attempt to place the person in jail. They’re weaponizing the regulation on this nation. They’re making an attempt to take Donald Trump down.

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Donald Trump and some of his closest confidants have been indicted on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia.

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An indictment is a court document containing charges that were voted on by a grand jury, a group of people who decide whether a prosecutor has enough evidence to pursue criminal charges. It is a formal accusation – not a conviction.

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Hillary Clinton said she did not “feel any satisfaction” about Donald Trump’s extreme legal predicament, as 13 more criminal charges were leveled against the former president in Georgia on Monday night.

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Instead, the former senator, secretary of state and presidential nominee said, she felt “great profound sadness”.

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Clinton, 75, lost the 2016 election to Trump. On Monday, she was booked on MSNBC in part to discuss a new essay in the Atlantic, about the problem of loneliness in US society. But then news broke of Trump’s latest indictments, over his election subversion in Georgia in 2020.

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“I didn’t think that [the appearance] could be beneath these circumstances, yet one more set of indictments,” Clinton stated, laughing. “It’s onerous to consider,”she said.

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I don’t really feel any satisfaction. I really feel nice profound disappointment that we have now a former president who has been indicted for thus many prices that went proper to the center of whether or not or not our democracy would survive.

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In 2016, Trump commonly accused Clinton of wrongdoing, stoking chants of “lock her up” at his rallies. Final month, CNN unearthed feedback from simply earlier than the election, by which Trump stated a president beneath indictment and going through legal trial would “create an unprecedented constitutional disaster” and “cripple the operations of presidency”.

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Clinton continued:

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Should you cease and take into consideration what the general public proof is … [Trump] got down to defraud america of America and the residents of our nation.

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He used techniques, harassment, intimidation, he made threats, he and his allies went after state officers, native officers answerable for conducting elections. Now we all know they even went into voting machines with a view to decide whether or not or not these voting machines had in some way been breached once they had been those truly doing the breaching.

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So there’s a nice deal already within the public document … clearly this investigation has been very thorough. However I don’t know that anyone must be happy with this. This can be a horrible second for our nation to have a former president accused of those terribly essential crimes.

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In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump said he would present an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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Trump wrote:

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Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!

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In addition to charging Donald Trump, a grand jury in Fulton County returned an indictment on Monday night of 18 other people as co-defendants in the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

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Here are all the defendants:

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• Donald Trump

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• Rudy Giuliani

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• John Eastman

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• Sidney Powell

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• Kenneth Chesebro

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• Mark Meadows

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• Michael Roman

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• Jeffrey Clark

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• Misty Hampton

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• Jenna Ellis

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• Ray Smith

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• Robert Cheeley

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• Cathy Latham

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• David Shafer

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• Shawn Still

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• Trevian Kutti

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• Stephen Lee

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• Harrison Floyd

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• Scott Hall

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Twice impeached and now indicted in four cases: Donald Trump faces serious criminal charges in New York, Florida, Washington and Georgia over a hush-money scheme during the 2016 election, his alleged mishandling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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As Trump prepares for those cases to go to trial, the former president is also confronting a verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer E Jean Carroll. A New York jury awarded Carroll, who accused Trump of assaulting her in 1996, $5m in damages.

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Here is where each case against Trump stands:

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A grand jury in Georgia has issued an indictment accusing Donald Trump of efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

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Prosecutors brought 41 counts against Trump and his associates, including forgery and racketeering, which is used to target members of organized crime groups.

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Read the full text of the indictment below.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Another week, another indictment for Donald Trump. The former president and some of his closest confidants were indicted late on Monday night on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia.

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The sprawling 41-count indictment, handed down by a state grand jury in Atlanta late on Monday night, charges Trump himself with 13 counts and accuses him of orchestrating a criminal enterprise.

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In addition to Trump, prosecutors in the office of the Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis charged 18 other defendants, including his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as his 2020 election lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro. All 19 defendants have until next Friday, 25 August, to voluntarily surrender, Willis told reporters late Monday night.

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This latest indictment makes Trump a criminal defendant in a fourth case as he campaigns to recapture the presidency. It is also particularly significant because the charges come at a state level, which means he would not be able to undo any potential convictions if he were re-elected president in 2024.

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In a statement following the indictment, Trump’s lawyers condemned the charges, calling the day’s events “shocking and absurd” and accused Willis of building her case on “witnesses who harbor their own personal and political interests”.

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• 9am ET: Joe Biden will get his daily intelligence briefing.

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• 10.20am: Biden will leave for Andrews, where he will fly to Milwaukee.

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• 10.45am: The Senate will meet in a pro forma session.

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• 11am: The House will meet in a pro forma session.

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• 2pm: Biden will speak about Bidenomics at Ingeteam.

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We’re wrapping up our reside weblog for the day, however will proceed to carry updates on the Guardian’s residence web page. Right here’s a recap of what’s occurred as we speak, within the aftermath of the late-night indictment in Georgia unveiling legal prices in opposition to Donald Trump and 18 codefendants over efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.

• The 98-page indictment handed down by a Fulton county grand jury contains 41 counts of crimes, together with 13 in opposition to Trump. It particulars lies the previous president and his co-defendants advised the general public in an effort to maintain him in energy.

• The fees had been introduced through Georgia’s Rico act, which has usually been used to go after the mafia.

• Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White Home chief of employees and one in every of his codefendants in Georgia, has filed to maneuver the case into federal courtroom – one thing that Trump himself is predicted to copy in an effort to hunt a friendlier jury and land a decide that he appointed.

• One other codefendant, John Eastman, who is taken into account one of many predominant architects of Trump’s technique to overturn the 2020 election, additionally plans to battle the indictment.

• Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would current an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday by saying: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.”

• Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, made a short assertion saying: “Probably the most primary rules of a powerful democracy are accountability and respect for the Structure and rule of regulation. You both have it, otherwise you don’t.”

• Republican politicians, together with candidates for the presidency in 2024, are searching for to defend Donald Trump over the indictment in Georgia.

• Hillary Clinton stated she didn’t “really feel any satisfaction” about Donald Trump’s excessive authorized predicament and as an alternative felt “nice profound disappointment”

• Within the separate federal case over Trump’s alleged mishandling of labeled paperwork, Carlos de Oliveira, the property supervisor of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, pleaded not responsible to a number of obstruction-related offenses.

  – Guardian employees

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Mark Meadows information to maneuver Fulton county case to federal courtroom

Mark Meadows, one in every of 19 individuals together with Donald Trump who had been criminally charged over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, has filed to maneuver the case into federal courtroom.

Meadows served as White Home chief of employees beneath Trump. His legal professionals have filed the petition to go from state to the US district courtroom for the northern district of Georgia, arguing for the change primarily based on the concept the costs stem from Meadows conduct in his capability as an officer of the federal authorities.

Trump is predicted to make an identical transfer, which might permit him to hunt a doubtlessly friendlier jury pool and the prospect of touchdown a decide that he appointed.

“Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged within the indictment to have carried out is legal per se: arranging Oval Workplace conferences, contacting state officers on the President’s behalf, visiting a state authorities constructing, and establishing a telephone name for the President,” Terwilliger wrote within the submitting.

The submitting additionally signifies that Meadows plans to file a movement to dismiss the state’s case.

John Eastman, who is taken into account one of many predominant architects of Trump’s technique to overturn the 2020 election, and is without doubt one of the defendants within the Georgia case, plans to battle the indictment, in line with his lawyer.

“This can be a authorized cluster-bomb that leaves unexploded ordinances for legal professionals to navigate in perpetuity,” stated Eastman’s legal professional Harvey Silverglate, in an announcement. “It goes hand-in-glove with the current effort to criminalize lawful political speech and authorized recommendation.”

Eastman, an legal professional himself, can be recognized as a co-conspirator within the federal inquiry on the January 6 revolt. He’s going through disciplinary prices within the State Bar Courtroom of California due his improvement of a doubtful authorized technique to overturn the 2020 presidential election by having former vp Mike Pence intrude within the election certification.

What’s the Georgia Rico Act?

Sam Levine

The fees in opposition to Trump had been introduced through Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act, which basically permits prosecutors to hyperlink collectively totally different crimes dedicated by totally different individuals and convey legal prices in opposition to a bigger legal enterprise. The regulation requires prosecutors to point out the existence of a legal enterprise that has dedicated at the very least two underlying crimes.

Prosecutors have lengthy used the federal Rico Act to go after the mafia. However Georgia’s model is much more expansive than the federal statute. It permits prosecutors within the state to carry racketeering prices if a defendant makes an attempt or solicits a criminal offense, even when they don’t carry prices for these crimes themselves.

How does an indictment work?

Sam Levine

Within the indictment by the state of Georgia, the state wrote: “Trump and the opposite defendants charged on this indictment refused to just accept that Trump misplaced, they usually knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the result of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a typical plan and function to commit two or extra acts of racketeering exercise.”

Graphic showing how an indictment works

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Gloria Oladipo

Advocacy teams are outraged after the Arkansas division of training warned state excessive faculties to not provide a sophisticated placement course on African American historical past.

The admonition from Arkansas training officers is the newest instance of conservative lawmakers limiting training on racial historical past, sexual orientation and different matters they label as “indoctrination”.

The Arkansas Education Association (AEA), an expert group of educators within the state, stated the newest choice is of “grave concern” to its members and different residents fearful about “the abandonment of educating African American historical past and tradition”.

“Having this course pulled out from beneath our college students at this late juncture is simply one other marginalizing transfer that has already performed out in different states,” stated an announcement from AEA president April Reisma, which was shared with the Guardian.

In an announcement to the Guardian, NAACP president and chief government officer Derrick Johnson referred to as the choice “abhorrent” and an “try to strip highschool college students of a chance to get a jumpstart on their school diploma”.

“Let’s be clear – the continued, state-level assaults on Black historical past are undemocratic and regressive,” Johnson stated.

The unhappy actuality is that these politicians are decided to neglect our nation’s youth in service of their very own political agendas.

President Joe Biden traveled to a producing warehouse in Wisconsin on Tuesday the place he delivered remarks on the Inflation Discount Act, a significant piece of financial laws he signed into regulation a 12 months in the past.

Wisconsin is among the many key states the place Biden wants to steer voters that his insurance policies are having a optimistic influence on their lives, however polls present that most individuals know little concerning the Act or what it does, AP reported.

“It’s actually form of primary: we simply determined to spend money on America once more,” Biden stated. “That’s what it’s all about.”

The president selected to disregard Donald Trump in his speech, however he made the financial case private by straight difficult the state’s Republican senator Ron Johnson, who he stated “believes outsourcing manufacturing jobs is a superb factor”.

Administration officers say the journey is geared toward recognizing the results of the regulation, which handed Congress on party-line votes. In response to the White Home, in Wisconsin, non-public corporations have dedicated greater than $3 billion in manufacturing and clear power investments since Biden was sworn into workplace.

The Fulton county courtroom clerk launched an announcement acknowledging that it had printed on its web site a doc about Donald Trump being criminally charged.

At about noon on Monday, a two-page docket report posted to the Fulton county courtroom web site indicated prices in opposition to Trump together with racketeering, conspiracy and false statements. The looks of the report set off a flurry of stories media exercise, however then the doc vanished.

The courtroom clerk has now stated it had been testing its system earlier than the grand jury voted later within the day on whether or not to indict Trump.

Yesterday, @Reuters obtained a docket report on the Fulton County clerk’s web site that appeared to element prices in opposition to Trump.

After initially calling the docket report “fictitious,” the clerk’s workplace has launched an announcement explaining what occurred: pic.twitter.com/gbowdCbVA1

— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) August 15, 2023

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Yesterday, @Reuters obtained a docket report on the Fulton County clerk’s web site that appeared to element prices in opposition to Trump.

After initially calling the docket report “fictitious,” the clerk’s workplace has launched an announcement explaining what occurred: pic.twitter.com/gbowdCbVA1

— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) August 15, 2023

Kira Lerner

Alabama Republicans defended their choice to not create a second majority-Black district in a listening to earlier than a panel of federal judges over the state’s redrawn congressional maps.

State Republicans proceed to withstand courtroom orders, together with from the supreme courtroom in June, to amend the congressional maps to provide Black voters elevated political energy and illustration.

The three-judge panel, which blocked the usage of the state’s outdated map final 12 months, will determine whether or not to let Alabama’s new districts go ahead or step in and draw new congressional districts for the state. The outcomes of the prolonged courtroom battle may additionally decide whether or not Democrats choose up one other seat in Congress, the place Republicans at the moment maintain a slim majority.

In a shock June choice, the supreme courtroom upheld the panel’s earlier discovering that the state’s then map – which had one Black-majority district out of seven in a state the place multiple in 4 residents is Black – seemingly violated the federal Voting Rights Act.

In response to the ruling, Alabama Republicans boosted the share of Black voters within the majority-white second congressional district, now represented by Republican consultant Barry Moore, from about 30% to 39.9%, failing to provide Black voters a majority which might permit them to elect their candidate of alternative.

Learn the total story right here.

Florida governor and Donald Trump’s main rival for the GOP presidential nomination in most polls, Ron DeSantis, was important of the Georgia indictment.

Chatting with reporters on Tuesday, DeSantis stated the indictment was “an instance of this criminalization of politics. I don’t suppose that that is one thing that’s good for the nation”.

He additionally accused Fulton county district legal professional Fani Willis of utilizing an “inordinate quantity of sources” on the Trump case whereas failing to deal with crime.

Mary Yang

Donald Trump

In fact, on the heart of the legal investigation is Donald Trump. On 2 January 2021, Trump phoned the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, pressuring him “to search out 11,780 votes” – the variety of ballots wanted to overturn Biden’s victory in Fulton county. Information experiences of that hour-long telephone name kicked off Willis’s investigation.

He additionally directed Mike Pence, then the vice-president, to reject the electoral vote in Georgia and different states revealed to be concerned in what’s now often called the “faux electors” scheme.

Trump is going through a number of different prices in numerous courts, together with mishandling of labeled paperwork, his function within the January 6 Capitol revolt and hush cash funds to an grownup movie actor.

Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani, a former Trump marketing campaign legal professional and New York mayor, repeatedly spewed false claims of election fraud within the months following Biden’s 2020 victory. That December, he met with Georgia lawmakers and spewed baseless claims of election fraud reminiscent of a conspiracy by voting machine producers to flip votes from Trump to Biden. The Division of Justice and the Home January 6 committee have additionally investigated Giuliani for his function in orchestrating the false electors scheme, the place Trump allies in a number of states produced faux certificates saying he gained the election. A watchdog group discovered Giuliani to be a “central determine”. A disciplinary panel has stated Giuliani must be disbarred.

Mark Meadows

Serving as Donald Trump’s chief of employees throughout the 2020 election and its aftermath, Meadows was on the heart of lots of of messages about the way to hold Trump in energy, in line with texts he turned over to the Home January 6 choose committee. Meadows was additionally on the notorious telephone name Trump positioned to Raffensperger demanding he “discover 11,780 votes”. A decide ordered Meadows to testify within the Georgia election investigation – although Meadows had repeatedly tried to keep away from doing so.

Jenna Ellis

Ellis, a Trump marketing campaign legal professional and former Colorado prosecutor, unfold a number of statements claiming voter fraud throughout the 2020 election and despatched at the very least two memos advising Mike Pence to reject Biden’s victory in Georgia and different states. She was ordered to seem earlier than the particular grand jury in 2022. Earlier this 12 months, the Colorado supreme courtroom censured Ellis for making false statements and she or he acknowledged making misrepresentations as a part of the settlement.

Kenneth Chesebro

Also called “co-conspirator 5” in particular counsel Jack Smith’s federal election fraud inquiry, Chesebro has been revealed to be one of many predominant architects of the faux electors scheme –– which he described as a “daring, controversial plan”. The New York Occasions obtained a duplicate of a memo from Chesebro to a Wisconsin legal professional laying out a three-pronged plan to overturn election ends in six states, together with Georgia, and hold Trump in energy. Willis subpoenaed Chesebro to seem earlier than the particular grand jury however the New York-based legal professional moved to quash it.

Sidney Powell

An legal professional related to Trump’s marketing campaign after the 2020 election, Powell, who filed a lawsuit in opposition to Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, alleging voter fraud, is regarded as “co-conspirator 3” within the federal investigation by Jack Smith. Together with Rudy Giuliani, Powell appeared commonly on conservative information networks the place she spewed baseless claims of election fraud, together with overseas rigging of voting machines and was some of the distinguished names within the defamation case introduced upon Fox Information by Dominion Voting Programs, whose particular person case in opposition to Powell remains to be pending.

Jeffrey Clark

A former justice division legal professional, Clark has been recognized as “co- conspirator 4” within the federal January 6 investigation. Clark allegedly tried to coerce justice division officers to signal a letter to officers in a number of states. He drafted a letter to Georgia officers in late December 2020 falsely claiming the justice division had “recognized important considerations” that will have impacted election ends in a number of states, together with Georgia –– but it surely remained unsent. He additionally reportedly plotted with Trump to oust the performing legal professional basic, however failed.

John Eastman

Considered one of many predominant architects of Trump’s technique to overturn the 2020 election, Eastman – recognized as “co-conspirator 2” within the federal January 6 inquiry – drafted a six-step plan that directed Mike Pence to reject Biden’s victory.

Who’s who within the Georgia Trump investigation?

Mary Yang

These are the individuals concerned within the high-profile election investigation that might have far-reaching implications for Donald Trump, who could nicely face jail time if convicted, and his possibilities of successful the Republican nomination in 2024.

Fani Willis

Fulton county district legal professional Fani Willis, a famously powerful prosecutor in opposition to gangs and arranged crime, is overseeing the election investigation, which she launched in 2021, simply weeks after being sworn in. A profession Atlanta-area legal prosecutor, Willis has been recognized to aggressively use Rico, an anti-racketeering regulation that’s stronger in Georgia than beneath federal statute.

Trump and his legal professionals have sought to disqualify Willis from finishing up the investigation, submitting motions to take action in March and July. Trump branded Willis a “younger, bold, Radical Left Democrat ‘Prosecutor’” in a Reality Social put up final 12 months. Willis, a Democrat, is the primary Black girl to function Fulton county DA.

Robert McBurney

The Fulton county superior courtroom decide Robert McBurney was chosen to oversee the particular grand jury that put collectively suggestions for Willis’s investigation into Trump’s conduct surrounding election outcomes. McBurney released a partial version of the panel’s closing report in February, protecting the vast majority of its findings beneath seal. Trump’s legal professionals focused McBurney, a former prosecutor, for approving Willis’s particular grand jury request, asking that he disqualify her from the case.

The grand juries

Willis requested a particular grand jury, assembled final Might to assist her investigation into Trump and his allies’ meddling with election outcomes. After eight months and 75 witness interviews, the jurors compiled a report with suggestions for the case. The panel was dissolved in January. Afterward, the foreperson, Emily Kohrs, hinted they advisable greater than a dozen indictments, drawing backlash for her media blitz.

McBurney has empaneled two common grand juries – and one is prone to contemplate prices in opposition to Trump and his allies.

Treasury secretary Janet Yellen stated she unintentionally ate a “magic mushroom” whereas on a current journey to China.

Yellen go to to Beijing final month included a cease at a Yunnan restaurant chain, the place she ate the native jian shou qing.

“So I went with this huge group of individuals and the one who had organized our dinner did the ordering,” she advised CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday.

There was a scrumptious mushroom dish. I used to be not conscious that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I realized that later.

She stated she had “learn that if the mushrooms are cooked correctly, which I’m positive they had been at this superb restaurant, that they haven’t any influence.” She added:

However all of us loved the mushrooms, the restaurant, and none of us felt any unwell results from having eaten them.

Biden to go to Hawaii ‘as quickly as he can’ after lethal wildfires

Joe Biden stated he’ll journey to Hawaii to go to the devastation left behind by the nation’s deadliest wildfires in over a century, killing at the very least 99 individuals and decreasing neighborhoods to ash.

“My spouse, Jill, and I are going to journey to Hawaii as quickly as we will,” Biden stated in his first public feedback on the catastrophe since late final week.

I don’t need to get in the best way – I’ve been to too many catastrophe areas, however I need to go and ensure we acquired every little thing they want. I need to make sure we don’t disrupt the continuing restoration efforts.

President Biden says he and First Girl Jill Biden will go to Hawaii “as quickly as we will”:

“I don't need to get in the best way. I've been to too many catastrophe areas … I need to make sure we don't disrupt the continuing restoration efforts.” pic.twitter.com/ydZ8M3xpXv

— The Recount (@therecount) August 15, 2023

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President Biden says he and First Girl Jill Biden will go to Hawaii “as quickly as we will”:

“I do not need to get in the best way. I have been to too many catastrophe areas … I need to make sure we do not disrupt the continuing restoration efforts.” pic.twitter.com/ydZ8M3xpXv

— The Recount (@therecount) August 15, 2023

Deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton stated earlier as we speak that the White Home was having “lively conversations” about when the Bidens may go to.

Biden’s remarks at a wind and electrical energy manufacturing plant in Milwaukee had been his first feedback on the Maui wildfires since final week, when he declared a federal emergency. The interval of silence drew criticism from Republicans, together with Donald Trump.

Oliver Milman

Joe Biden’s landmark local weather laws has been “disappointing” and did not ship protections to automotive trade employees confronted by the transition to electrical autos, in line with the top of the US’s main autoworkers union, which has pointedly withheld is endorsement of the president for subsequent 12 months’s election.

The Inflation Discount Act (IRA), signed by Biden a 12 months in the past this week, has bestowed enormous incentives to automotive firms to fabricate electrical autos with none accompanying ensures over employee pay and circumstances, Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Employees (UAW), advised the Guardian.

“Thus far it’s been disappointing. If the IRA continues to carry sweatshops and a continued race to the underside it will likely be a tragedy,” Fain stated.

That is our technology’s defining second with electrical autos. The federal government ought to spend money on US manufacturing however cash can’t go to firms with no strings connected. Labor wants a seat on the desk. There must be labor requirements in-built, that is the way forward for the automotive trade at stake.

The UAW, which relies within the car-making heartland of Detroit and has round 400,000 members, has to date refused to endorse Biden for subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, a significant political headache for a president who has referred to as himself a “union man” and counts upon organized labor as a key a part of his base, significantly in essential midwest states reminiscent of Michigan.

The ire of unions has been a thorny downside within the Biden administration’s makes an attempt to hurry the proliferation of electrical autos and reduce planet-heating emissions from transportation, the largest source of US carbon air pollution.

Joanna Walters

Joe Biden is speaking in Milwaukee at an Ingeteam manufacturing unit, an organization constructed on the drive for clear power that manufactures onshore wind turbine turbines.

The US president is within the very important swing state of Wisconsin to speak about his “Bidenomics” insurance policies to spice up the embattled US center class and US industries reminiscent of manufacturing, development and semiconductor know-how, particularly these with sturdy union membership.

He’s in Wisconsin on the eve of the anniversary of his signing into regulation a significant bipartisan legislative plank, the healthcare, local weather and tax bundle referred to as the Inflation Discount Act.

The scene of Biden speaking to crowds of union members cheering his touting of a “made in America” coverage and inexperienced power that he stated has the potential to cheaper to energy the US than fossil fuels gives a pointy distinction to his chief Republican rival for the White Home, Donald Trump after the 2024 candidate hoping to return to the presidency was handed his fourth legal indictment final evening, in Georgia.

Subsequent week, the primary Republican main season debate will probably be held in Milwaukee.

US president Joe Biden simply stepped as much as the rostrum to talk in Milwaukee. Union leaders and members are there and so are a few of Wisconsin’s senior Democrats, the state governor Tony Evers, US Senator Tammy Baldwin and congresswoman Gwen Moore.

After hailing his fellow Democrats, Biden is now lamenting the disastrous wildfires which have decimated elements of Maui in Hawaii.

Biden stated he desires to go there as quickly because it’s possible – “as quickly as I can” – however isn’t dashing there instantly in order to not “get in the best way”, as a presidential go to is all the time an enormous challenge for any locality.

Interim abstract

Howdy once more, US politics reside weblog readers, it’s been a vigorous day as far as the ripples proceed to unfold from the late-night indictment unveiled in Georgia in opposition to Donald Trump and 18 codefendants, accusing them of an organized racket to overturn Trump’s defeat by Biden in one of many decisive state outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.

There will probably be much more information within the coming hours and we’ll proceed to carry it to you because it occurs. US president Joe Biden is about to talk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Right here’s the place issues stand:

• Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would current an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday by saying: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.”

• Hunter Biden’s lead legal protection legal professional, Christopher Clark, requested a federal decide for permission to withdraw from the legal case involving his consumer on the grounds he could be referred to as to testify as a witness in future proceedings.

• Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, made a short assertion saying: “Probably the most primary rules of a powerful democracy are accountability and respect for the Structure and rule of regulation. You both have it, otherwise you don’t.”

• Carlos de Oliveira, the property supervisor of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, pleaded not responsible to a number of obstruction-related offenses within the case associated to the previous president’s alleged mishandling of labeled paperwork.

• Republican politicians, together with candidates for the presidency in 2024, are searching for to defend Donald Trump over the indictment in Georgia.

• Hillary Clinton stated she didn’t “really feel any satisfaction” about Donald Trump’s excessive authorized predicament and as an alternative felt “nice profound disappointment”.

• Donald Trump stated he would current an “irrefutable report” on election fraud in Georgia on Monday at his non-public golf membership in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Can Trump nonetheless run for president?

Sam Levine

Sure. The US structure doesn’t prohibit anybody charged with a criminal offense, nor anybody convicted of 1, from holding workplace.

The 14th modification, nevertheless, does bar anybody who has taken an oath to guard america and engaged in “revolt or insurrection” from holding workplace.

Counting on that provision, a slew of separate civil lawsuits in state courts are anticipated within the close to future to attempt to bar Trump from holding workplace.