Outrage as Fani Willis' love life takes center stage over Trump’s coup attempt in Georgia

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On tonight's episode of The ReidOut, Joy Reid leads with Donald Trump's Georgia election interference trial, through which the right is attempting to center DA Fani Willis as a distraction from Trump's attempt to overturn the election. Despite the judge finding no conflict of interest despite attempts to remove her, Willis's integrity was gratuitously questioned in his ruling to provide political fodder and GOP talking points. Additionally, we debunk right-wing propaganda claiming a surge in support among Black voters for Donald Trump, revealing the truth behind the rhetoric. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout. You're confused, you're confused, you think I'm on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I'm not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.
0:15.1	Correct.
0:17.1	But from the beginning, the right has tried to make Trump's Georgia
0:20.0	election interference trial all about DA Fawny Willis and today the judge
0:25.8	found no actual conflict of interest but did manage to gratuitously impugn her
0:32.0	integrity.
0:33.4	Also tonight we need to have a serious reality check
0:36.2	about the right-wing propaganda
0:38.3	that Trump is somehow gaining historic levels of support among black voters.
0:44.6	He wishes.
0:46.6	But we begin tonight with the most American of realities.
0:54.0	If you're a rich white guy, and especially if you're a celebrity
0:57.1	and a former president, not only are you above the law,
1:01.0	you are so above the law that if you get indicted for trying to
1:04.8	overturn an election and thus overthrow the government, that case isn't even
1:09.0	about you. Today Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Fulton County DA Fonte
1:17.3	Willis will not be disqualified from prosecuting the racketeering case against Donald Trump.
1:24.0	Trump tried it. It didn't work.
1:26.0	His case will be prosecuted in Georgia.
1:29.0	MAGA Inc. failed to prove a conflict of interest,
1:32.0	perhaps because there was no conflict of interest.
1:35.7	But in making that ruling, Judge McAfee, a Federalist Society alumnus, managed to still
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