Donald Trump indicted: Hillary Clinton laughs with Maddow amid Fulton County indictment
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacted to the latest indictment against Donald Trump Monday evening, saying it brings her “profound sadness” as she laughed about the conclusion of a grand jury investigation.
“Well, it’s hard to believe, I don’t feel any satisfaction. I feel great, you know, just great profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive,” Clinton told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC Monday night.
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An Atlanta-based grand jury on Monday indicted former Trump on state charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State.
Ahead of the release of the 98-page indictment, the former first lady spoke to Maddow, saying that she doesn’t feel “any satisfaction” over the indictment but that the “only satisfaction” is that “the system is working, that all of the efforts by Donald Trump, his allies, his enablers, to try to silence the truth, to try to undermine democracy have been brought into the light, and justice is being pursued.”
“He made threats; he and his allies went after state officials, local officials responsible for conducting elections,” Clinton said. “Now we know they even went into voting machines in order to determine whether or not those voting machines had somehow been breached when they were the ones actually doing the breaching. So there is a great deal already in the public record.”
As Maddow introduced Clinton on to the show Monday evening, she laughed, saying, “I can’t believe this.”
“I didn’t think it would be under these circumstances,” a smiling Clinton said as she and Maddow discussed the fourth case in which Trump has been indicted in less than five months.
The Fulton County grand jury handed back indictments against 19 defendants, including Trump, after a tumultuous Monday stemming from the monthslong investigation into Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election in the state.
The indictment of the defendants, including Trump, was unsealed at around 11:00 p.m. EDT Monday and is 98 pages long.
Clinton ran for president against Trump in 2016 and lost. The former Democratic nominee palled around with Maddow at the end of her interview as her appearance was pushed until later in the evening as the network covered emerging news about the grand jury indictment.
“I really appreciate you being here tonight, I apologize for it being in the middle of this news,” Maddow said, prompting laughter from Clinton.
“Yeah, I never would have guessed it, but here we are,” she replied. “I was going to say, just tell me when to show up the next time; we’ll see what he’s charged with then.”
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the investigation into Trump, began investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election in January 2021, and she convened a grand jury in May 2022, according to portions of the grand jury’s final report released this year.
The report, made public in February, stated the grand jury had “received evidence from or involving” 75 witnesses, including election workers, technical experts, employees of the state of Georgia, and those who claimed election fraud had occurred in the 2020 election.