Legal analyst Dan Abrams contends that Georgia D.A. Fani Willis “overtly politicized” her case against former President Donald Trump.
The cartoon depicts Willis in a boat as she fishes in a swamp. On the end of her line is a fish that Trump’s team said depicted Sen. Lindsey Graham . The fish states, “Fishing Expedition,” which is what Graham said after Willis’s office sent him a subpoena weeks earlier. Adjacent to Graham is another fish resembling Trump, which says, “I know you’ll do the right thing for the swamp, Lindsey.
What is more, the filing contended that she “promoted her own campaign on the shoulders of partisan support for this [Special Grand Jury] investigation.” It detailed: Within a couple of days, the FCDA’s Twitter account increased by approximately one-hundred thousand followers, and requests for campaign donations were retweeted thousands of times. On at least three occasions, the FCDA personally inserted herself into this Twitter campaign for “followers, tweets and donations” which specifically referenced this investigation; it is that personal involvement and interest which creates the disqualifying conflict.
Abrams, the founder of Abrams Media, argued in an opinion article Wednesday that if the political affiliations were reversed, the mainstream media would have been outraged. “Can you imagine if that was a Republican prosecutor seemingly exploiting the subpoena of a progressive liberal Democrat to solicit campaign donations?” He wondered. “There would be no end to the mainstream media’s hysteria.”, Willis sent a timely announcement to supporters – days before the indictment came down – that she launched her campaign fundraising website, as Atlanta First News
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Fani Willis, the steely Georgia prosecutor who charged TrumpThe indictment of Former President Donald Trump for interfering in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia will be the biggest case of prosecutor Fani Willis' career, but it will not be her first contentious prosecution.
Read more »
Trump's Georgia Lawyer Donated to Fani Willis' DA CampaignDrew Findling, a celebrity attorney who has supported liberal causes, is now defending the former president against RICO charges
Read more »
Full text: Read the Fulton County Trump indictment PDFRead the full Trump Georgia indictment 41-count indictment against Trump, Giuliani and 17 others
Read more »