In America’s latest iteration of law vs. scofflaw, Fani Willis has brought the most consequential prosecution in U.S. history.
Her 41-count indictment against Donald Trump and 18 of his closest co-conspirators threads the infinitesimal needle between free political speech and fraud, sewing Trump’s falsehoods into a cloak of criminal enterprise beyond the protection of the First Amendment.Trump’s incessant drumbeat about a stolen 2020 election — repulsive to voters who value fact over fiction — is legally challenging to parse: under the First Amendment, politicians have the right to lie to the American public.
In deference to this reality, Jack Smith’s indictment largely avoided Trump’s political rallies, and skipped incitement of the January 6, 2021 Capital violence entirely. Ms. Willis was not so constrained. She relied on Georgia Code Section 16-10-20, which makes it a crime to lie to any state, city or local government official in Georgia regarding any matter within their jurisdiction.
Trying to explain how Trump’s stolen election claims resulted in massive court losses , despite such extreme efforts, one Trump advisor commented, “It’s tough to own any of this when it’s all just conspiracy beamed down from the mothership.”Trump, who bragged in 2005 about assaulting women’s genitals and dismissed as fake news, was found guilty of same in 2023 by a jury of his peers. Aside from his vitriolic attacks on female professionals, he likes to brag that he personally “killed Roe v.
Republicans have abandoned the rule of law, preferring authoritarianism over the loss of power, which makes it all the more satisfying to watch Willis rein them in. Excuse me while I swoon, but Fani Willis is no pushover, and no bleeding heart. She has taken on violent gangs and is now prosecuting famous rapper Young Thug under the same RICO statute ensnaring Trump.
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