Georgia starts investigation into Trump's election interference

Another futile effort by trump to avoid being held responsible for his many crimes...

 

These are so dumb, is it trump forcing his lawyers or do they just do this to try and delay knowing they look as dumb as a box of rocks...........they know they will lose, the reasoning is just astoundingly stupid. I hope they get paid up front

 

Shocking, I know... trump and one of his fellow conspirators get shot down in court again...

 

$550K isn't enough for the late nights he put in on Fani.

 

It does sound like DA Willis did behave improperly. None of that changes the evidence against Trump including his own words in trying to pressure GA election officials from "finding him" votes or false accusations against election employees.

 

Say what?!?

 

This thread sure did get quiet after these allegations came out.

And, while I agree with you that Willis' behavior doesn't mean anything about Trump's guilt, the truth is -- if the current story is essentially true -- she should probably hand this prosecution to somebody else.

If Willis accepted lavish gifts of vacations from Wade and did not pay him back (she might have) and did not report them per whatever rules Georgia has for elected officials accepting gifts, that's corruption. If that's the case, she shouldn't just abandon this case, she should be removed from office entirely and prosecuted. Since Wade bought her plane tickets, I'd look to see that she promptly repaid the amount to him. If she did, she was not accepting a gift from a contractor, but simply had a boyfriend handle some transaction for her (from my experience, I would want to buy all tickets in a single transaction too to avoid having space on a plane run out and me and my girlfriend arriving somewhere separately).

If, more mildly, it is just that they were in a romantic relationship before she hired him, it's still nepotism. If some higher-up was informed they were in a romantic relationship and approved his hiring anyway, that could be curative. But, right now that doesn't appear to be the case. It wouldn't be illegal, but would be improper. In that case, Wade should probably resign and Willis might face some professional sanction. And, of course, the voter.

But, as a practical and political matter, it's obvious that any victory she could win in the Trump case would now be seen as illegitimate by a large portion of the country and of the state that she serves. That lack of faith in the findings of the case would damage public faith in the justice system in general, and would cause bitter resentment regarding justice for Trump in particular. We would all be better off if some other prosecutor could take this case over the finish line. I don't know how that might work and if it is even possible for her to hand it off.

(What we absolutely should not do is just dismiss the case entirely. There is still a grand jury that determined Trump should be indicted, so he should get his day in court.)

 

While handing off to another prosecutors sounds fine and won't hurt the case against trump... trump attacks the judge and prosecutor in every case he is in and the maga followers slide alongside no matter who or what. So what difference would it make?

 

This is a no-merit case, put together by a fraudulent and dishonest district attorney, and the "evidence" came from illegally colluding with the Biden White House and January 6th Committee (who destroyed their information). Public confidence in our legal system is eroding every day that these sham political attacks are waged through the legal system.

Our legal system has not been this abused since 100 years ago in the Deep South when all white juries would convict black youth of murder on the basis of hearsay evidence. Same concept with bringing charges against Trump in 90%+ jury pool areas like DC or Fulton county. It's disgusting.

 

Magas will complain about any prosecutor and any judge. But even mainstream Americans aren't going to feel very confident in a conviction won by a prosecutor found to have breached ethics herself.

 

Exactly, the race to the bottom for moral and ethical standards has to stop somewhere.

If she's above it, then the public's faith in the rule of law is weakened, and we need as much of it as we can to successfully prosecute Trump's earned crimes.

 

He doesn't need to be unqualified for his hiring to be nepotism and his presence to be a conflict of interest. What if he does a great job but somewhere down the line he has does something unethical and Willis is faced with the conundrum of 'do I fire my boyfriend or look the other way?' That's one of the reasons we have rules around nepotism. If in my corporate job I hired a contractor and then it was discovered that she was my secret lover, I'd be fired. Even if she did a stellar job. And the ethical standards in government tend to be stricter. I'm in a government facing job and in some states I can't even buy a government official their lunch.

 

The brother should be paid a lot more for hitting that hideous creature from the black lagoon. Notice that everything they throw at Trump including the kitchen sink has backfired.

 

@Clutch would you accept a payment plan from @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul so he can pay you back the money he owes you? 10 bucks every week for 5 weeks so you can pay back clutch?

Quit owning money to the website owner. Scumbag move

 

Barb McQuade is a law professor and former US Attorney...