The election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump in Georgia is “dead in the water” after a state court of appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her team from prosecuting him.
The entire criminal conspiracy indictment was not dismissed Thursday, but Willis and her office now have “no authority to proceed” due to a “significant appearance of impropriety caused by the conduct of a public prosecutor.”
“That case against him in Georgia had already been paused. Now, it’s not even backburnered – it’s dead in the water,” CNN reported, because the process for replacing Willis would be too difficult to keep it going.
Thursday’s ruling comes after a trial level judge had examined the case and decided that Willis could stay on.
“After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office,” the court stated. “The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.”
The court noted that while it recognizes that “an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.”
“Accordingly, we reverse the trial court’s denial of the appellants’ motion to disqualify DA Willis and her office,” the filing states. “As we conclude that the elected district attorney is wholly disqualified from this case, ‘the assistant district attorneys — whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority of the district attorney who appointed them — have no authority to proceed,'” the filing states.
Trump told Fox News the “whole case has been a disgrace to justice.”
“It was started by the Biden DOJ as an attack on his political opponent, Donald Trump,” he said, “They used anyone and anybody and she has been disqualified and her boyfriend has been disqualified and they stole funds and went on trips.”
Trump said that the case “should not be allowed to go any further.”
“There is no way such corrupt people can lead a case and then it gets taken over by somebody else,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “It was a corrupt case, so how could it be taken over by someone else?”
“The case has to be thrown out because it was started corruptly by an incompetent prosecutor who received millions of dollars through her boyfriend—who received it from her—and then they went on cruises all the time,” Trump said, referring to Willis’ relationship with a former prosecutor on her team, Nathan Wade.
“Therefore, the case is entirely dead,” Trump said. “Everybody should receive an apology, including those wonderful patriots who have been caught up in this for years.”
The dismissal of the Georgia case is the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats’ lawfare efforts against Trump.
Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped all of his charges against Trump in the January 6 case and the classified documents case in Florida, and now faces an internal Department of Justice inquiry into allegations of misconduct by his team.
The weakest effort to get Trump, the hush money case that resulted in 34 felony convictions in Manhattan, was not thrown out by the left-wing anti-Trump Judge Merchan, but his sentencing has repeatedly been delayed, and at this point it looks like any jailtime for Trump has been taken off the table.
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