S10 E40: Hello 2025?

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

True Crime, Politics, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The most recent episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast explores the ramifications of the Georgia Court of Appeals decision to hear the defense’s challenge to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case. About six weeks after being asked to decide the issue, the appeals court said it would take it up. This almost certainly means yet another lengthy delay to the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his remaining 14 co-defendants. Also in Episode 40 – “Hello 2025?” – of Breakdown’s Season 10 – “The Trump Indictment” – former special prosecutor Nathan Wade breaks his silence since he stepped down from the case after Judge Scott McAfee found Wade’s romantic relationship with Willis created the appearance of a conflict of interest. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcasting platform. Y Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on breakdown.
0:02.0	This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country.
0:09.0	Like Justice Gorsuch, I'm not focused on the here and now of this case. I'm very concerned about the future.
0:17.0	If someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world with the greatest amount of authority
0:25.2	could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for
0:32.1	committing crimes.
0:33.8	I'm trying to understand what the disincentive is
0:36.9	from turning the Oval Office into the seat
0:41.8	of criminal activity in this country.
0:45.0	When Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March
0:48.8	that District Attorney Fawnee Fawnee Willis could remain at the helm of her election interference case, many folks thought that
0:55.7	would be the end of it.
0:56.9	Willis was out of the woods and we were finally moving past her romance with now ex-special
1:01.7	prosecutor Nathan Wade.
1:04.0	And the Fulton DA's office could once again focus on the question of whether former
1:08.6	President Donald Trump and his allies unlawfully tried to steal the 2020 election in Georgia.
1:16.3	But defense attorneys weren't going to give up that easily.
1:20.0	Lawyers for Trump and other co-defendants asked the Georgia Court of Appeals
1:24.1	to consider the decision before trial.
1:27.6	And on Wednesday, we got their answer.
1:30.2	The court agreed to hear the case.
1:33.0	That means three things.
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