{"id":2023950,"date":"2023-09-06T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-09-06T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:05:16","slug":"donald-trump-indictment-four-takeaways-from-first-fulton-county-televised-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-four-takeaways-from-first-fulton-county-televised-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Key points from the initial televised hearing on Donald Trump&#8217;s indictment in Fulton County."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indictment-four-takeaways-from-first-fulton-county-televised-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Details of Former President \u200cDonald Trump&#8217;s Fulton County, Georgia, Racketeering Trial<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2062details of\u2064 former\u200b President Donald Trump&#8217;s Fulton County, Georgia, racketeering trial began to unfold on Wednesday in the\u200c first televised hearing in\u2063 the case since the indictment\u2063 was handed up \u200dlast month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Special prosecutor Nathan Wade spoke on behalf of the\u2063 district attorney&#8217;s office \u200band said he expects \u2063a four-month-long trial with more than 150\u2062 witnesses. The hearing was over Trump&#8217;s former lawyers-turned-co-defendants&#8217; bid\u2064 to have\u200b their cases severed from the other\u200d 17 defendants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Four\u2063 Takeaways \u200bfrom \u200cthe Wednesday Hearing:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Trial is scheduled to begin for Chesebro and Powell on \u200dOct. 23<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>While \u2063McAfee suggested he would \u2063separate Powell and Chesebro from the other 17, he ruled from the bench\u200c to deny\u2062 their motions to sever their cases from one another. Through\u200c that ruling, he held they will go \u200bto \u2063trial on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<li><strong>McAfee\u200c seems skeptical \u2064of trying Trump and\u200c others so\u2063 soon<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>McAfee did not\u2062 appear convinced by prosecutors on District Attorney Fani\u2062 Willis&#8217;s team\u2064 that they \u2064could hold a joint trial for all 19 defendants in October.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Jury selection will take a long time<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>The eventual jury selection\u2062 for the racketeering trial\u2062 will almost assuredly prevent the actual trial from commencing in late October,\u2062 Lieb said.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Legal distancing strategy unfolds for pair of defendants<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Attorneys for the two defendants on Wednesday sought\u2064 to distance their clients from each other and the 17 co-defendants in \u2064the\u200b case.<\/p>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Chesebro \u2062is charged with violating\u200c the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, conspiracy to \u200dimpersonate a public officer, two counts \u2064of conspiracy to commit forgery in\u2062 the first degree, two counts of conspiracy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4th-trump-indictment-sparks-partisan-reactions\/\" title=\"4th Trump Indictment Ignites Partisan Responses\">commit false statements<\/a> and writings, and conspiracy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fires-back-after-georgia-indictment-raises-questions-about-charging-documents\/\" title=\"Trump responds to Georgia indictment, raises concerns about charging documents.\">commit filing false documents<\/a>. Chesebro has pleaded not guilty and contends he was giving legal advice to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Powell, who has also pleaded not guilty, is charged with racketeering, conspiracy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-under-criminal-investigation-for-raffensperger-phone-call-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump Under Criminal Investigation For Raffensperger Phone Call: Report\">commit election fraud<\/a>, conspiracy to commit computer theft, trespass \u2062and invasion of \u2062privacy, and\u200d conspiracy to defraud the state. Prosecutors \u2064claimed Powell\u2019s \u200dcomputer theft charge is related to an effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-four-takeaways-from-first-fulton-county-televised-hearing\/\" title=\"Key points from the initial televised hearing on Donald Trump's indictment in Fulton County.\">access voting machines improperly<\/a> in\u200b Coffee County, Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s racketeering trial in Fulton County, Georgia, commenced with the first televised hearing. Special prosecutor Nathan Wade, representing the district attorney&#8217;s office, anticipates a lengthy four-month trial with over 150 pieces of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}