Lawyers for Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to have Fani T. Willis disqualified, accusing her of a conflict of interest because of a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to have Fani T. Willis disqualified, accusing her of a conflict of interest because of a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
I mean, I see your point, but the question that matters is whether the jury would decide differently based on any of this. Would the jury decides to acquit Trump because of this? I don’t know, personally I don’t think so as the allegations here are completely disconnected from what the jury will be deciding on.
Time lines matter. Mistrials matter. Wasting of public funds matter. The perception of this being seen as a witchhunt by corrupt Democrats matters. You can’t treat this in a vacuum as if what is happening around the trial doesn’t matter. Its not simply a matter of what the jury believes that matters, and their beliefs and perceptions don’t exist independently of the world that is happening around the trial.
Fani Willis has delivered a gift to the Trump campaign and the authors of project 2025. Justice has been compromised by her actions, and if I were writing odds on justice being served in this case, I would give it 9/10 that Trump walks (because of the actions of Willis to date) in spite of having done precisely what he is accused of having done.