MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 03-15-2024-222158
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most important criminal cases against Donald Trump has been on life support for weeks now, but as of today, it appears that the case will live and the former president will likely have to face trial. |
| 0:13.0 | For the past two months, we've watched as the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants devolved into a high-stakes sideshow. |
| 0:22.0 | Several of the defendants in this case |
| 0:24.0 | accused Fani Willis of having a relationship |
| 0:26.6 | with the special prosecutor on her team, |
| 0:28.9 | Nathan Wade, a relationship that created |
| 0:31.5 | a conflict of interest. They argued that because of that. a relationship |
| 0:33.0 | they argued that because of that relationship |
| 0:36.0 | Fani Willis needed to be thrown off the case a move that would have effectively killed any chance of this case |
| 0:42.0 | ever getting to trial. |
| 0:44.0 | Last month, DA Willis admitted that she and Mr. Wade did engage in a romantic relationship |
| 0:49.8 | for a period of time, but maintained that it had no bearing on this case. |
| 0:54.6 | The judge overseeing the case heard hours and hours of testimony to determine when the relationship |
| 0:59.9 | began and what, if any, financial benefit Fani Willis received as a result of that |
| 1:06.3 | relationship and all of it served to steer attention away from the heart of the |
| 1:10.6 | case the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 1:16.2 | Fannie Willis herself raised that point during her own dramatic testimony on the stand. |
| 1:25.0 | You've been intrusive into people's personalize. You're confused. You think I'm on trial. |
| 1:28.0 | These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on |
| 1:33.8 | trial. Today the judge finally ruled on whether Willis can remain on this case. |
| 1:39.5 | In a 23-page order Judge Scott McAfee writes, |
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