Georgia’s Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis cannot continue prosecuting the 2020 presidential election interference case against Republican President-elect Trump and 14 of his allies.
So…
Working in the legal realm, I have a few things to say about the outcome of this:
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She was absolutely fucking right to bring this case. No ifs ands or “alternative facts”. These pieces of shit didn’t just break the law, they went out of their to try and subvert it after the fact and have the laws rewritten to preclude prosecution.
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Georgia was the worst place to bring this case, but the ONLY state it would have worked knowing the distribution of judges, the timeline of events, and the people involved.
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She should have fucking known better. What a dumbass move to hire a known associate for investigation work, let alone someone you had fucked.
All of this culminating into what you see here, which on its face sounds like a Trump getting away with a crime, but really is just any tiny little nagging thing a defense attorney can bring against the charges.
Bottom line: as a prosecutor, you should know better than to invite something like this into a case to prevent EXACTLY this kind of bullshit.
Is this over or can the state still proceed?
In theory, the state can proceed with a new prosecutor.
In practice, this case is dead in the water.
There’s more to it than that.
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This was not a case of two prosecutors who happened to also be lovers. Their personal lives are their own business. They could post videos on Onlyfans for all that it matters. But these were lovers who were also using state and federal funds, to pay for travel expenses, hotel rooms, etc. in order to cover up the affair, essentially benefitting personally and financially from Trump’s prosecution. Some theories going around are saying she intentionally made the entire case needlessly complex by bringing in so many co-defendants in order to increase the budget, and by extension increase their personal financial benefit. Given the horrendous testimony given by Wade during that hearing and the evidence that’s out there, this theory isn’t without merit.
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You are correct that she was right to bring the case. That in and of itself is not the issue. It was that she brought the case while trying to see how much she could enrich herself and her lover in the process. She ended up tainting the entire tree and now as a result all of the fruit is poisoned. The case itself was rock-solid. The problem is that she covered it in so much shit that she ruined the whole thing.
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It happened in GA, so GA is the only state where it would make sense. And her own actions leave open the chance that she intentionally dragged her feet in order to increase her own personal gain. She was not constrained by Merrick Garland and the DOJ; she could have brought this case a fuck of a lot sooner and kept it simple by keeping it to Trump and only the most important cronies, instead of indicting every coffee boy Trump ever shook hands with.
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“Should have known better” is the understatement of the year. Her actions through the entire thing ranged from incompetence to negligence to outright corruption. And what makes her particularly stupid in this case is that she was handed a slam dunk case that a first year intern could have handled that would have literally made her career. All she had to do was literally the bare fucking minimum: Keep her hands clean and put on a competent prosecution, and she literally would have been able to dictate the rest of her own career. But instead, she decided to try to shave a little extra off the top for herself and ended up tanking the case, both of their careers, and trust in the entire system in the process. She should be disbarred and criminally charged.
It’s taking “Fucked around and found out” to both literal and extreme levels.
Seems a sane analysis.
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One concede counselor, on one stipulation that point 3 be moved to point 1
As someone who watches more law n order than he should
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