DA Fani Willis' Personal Relationship Will Have No Legal Impact on Trump's RICO Case
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
There has been wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth about an alleged personal relationship between Georgia DA Fani Willis and one of the special team members handling the prosecution of Donald Trump and his18 criminal associates/co-conspirators/co-defendants in his Georgia state RICO case. Glenn discusses why this development may be an unhelpful distraction and may resonate in the court of public opinion, but it is unlikely to have any legal significance to the ongoing RICO prosecution of Trump and company.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. leading the Trump RICO prosecution is Georgia District Attorney Fawny |
| 0:19.8 | Willis. She's now accused of having an improper relationship with a member of her |
| 0:24.4 | special counsel prosecution team. Glenn says, don't worry, it won't affect the |
| 0:29.1 | RICO case. So friends, you have undoubtedly seen at least some of the reporting it's been |
| 0:36.2 | saturating the news this allegation that Georgia District Attorney Fawnee |
| 0:42.0 | Fawnee Willis who's heading up the RICO prosecution of Donald |
| 0:46.8 | Trump and his 18 criminal associates, his co-conspirators, his charged co-defendants that Fawnee |
| 0:56.2 | Willis may be involved in or may have had previously a personal relationship |
| 1:02.3 | with one of the several special counsel she |
| 1:06.2 | hired she brought in to be part of the team to you know conduct this massive |
| 1:12.3 | RICO prosecution against Trump and company? |
| 1:17.0 | Well, let's start, as always with the new reporting, |
| 1:20.7 | and then let's break it down. |
| 1:21.9 | Let's talk about whether this really has any legal |
| 1:25.9 | significance to the prosecution of Trump and his criminal associates. First, the new reporting, this from the New York Times, how allegations |
| 1:36.3 | of an office romance came to complicate the case against Trump. And that article begins, |
| 1:45.0 | Fawny Willis ran for district attorney in Georgia Fulton County in 2020 with the slogan, Integrity Matters, |
| 1:50.0 | and frequently pummeled the incumbent, her former boss, with accusations of ethical lapses. |
| 1:57.0 | Soon after her victory, she set up a group to interview job candidates called the Integrity Transition Hiring Committee. One of its members was |
| 2:05.4 | Nathan Wade, a lawyer and municipal court judge from the Atlanta suburbs whom she |
| 2:11.6 | counted as a longtime friend and mentor. |
| 2:15.0 | Indeed, it was the personal bond they shared that Miss Willis has described as a key to her decision |
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