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Media Gloats Over Trump Indictment—Ignoring Dangers, Blinken Rejects Australia Demands to #FreeAssange, & Worst Pro-Iraq War Journalist Promoted (Again), w/ Michael Tracey | SYSTEM UPDATE #123

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Indictment in Trump's Attempt to Inflate the 2020 Election Results

The special prosecutor in this case Jack Smith who is also the prosecutor who indicted Trump for taking documents that he had every power to arbitrarily and unilaterally declassify how he wanted to Mar-a-Lago. What he charged Trump with is not inciting any violence on that day but instead essentially arguing that the outcome of the 2020 election was the byproduct of election fraud even though according to the indictment Trump knew that that claim was false. They're charging him with lying with making false statements about the 2020 election and trying to criminalize the spread of disinformation they charged him with four felony countsFour federal counts including obstructing a official proceeding which was the January 6th hearing as well as a conspiracy to deny people

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