Just one month after Donald Trump's January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia's secretary of state could overturn his election loss, Fani Willis announced she was looking into possibly illegal 'attempts to influence' the results.
Long before the FBI began investigating Donald Trump 's hoarding of classified documents or Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor to probe the former president, Fani Willis was at work.
"I think people are going to be surprised at the level of preparedness and the level of sophistication of the prosecution," said Clint Rucker, who was a prosecutor in Fulton County for more than 25 years before leaving in 2021. "That office is not some small backwoods country hick organization that fumbles the ball and doesn't know how to do its job."
Willis has led plenty of prominent prosecutions, but nothing that compares to indicting a former president, particularly one who fights his perceived enemies with the intensity of Trump. She is widely expected to use Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law to charge not only the former president but also a collection of his allies for alleged participation in a wide-ranging conspiracy.
"She's really a tough-on-crime liberal, which is kind of a rare bird these days, but I think that's her brand," said Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis. Trump has recently called Atlanta a "crime-ridden" city where "people are afraid to walk outside." While it's true that Atlanta, like most other major cities, saw a spike in violent crime in recent years, those levels have improved significantly. As of Aug. 5, homicides were down 25%, rapes had dropped by 56% and aggravated assaults had decreased by 22% compared with the same time last year, according to Atlanta police data.
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