Shades of Laurel and Hardy. When something went awry in one of their slapstick movies Oliver Hardy would declare to hapless Stan Laurel, “This is a fine mess you’ve gotten us into.” This would certainly apply to Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, and unlike Laurel and Hardy who managed to extricate themselves from said mess before the end of the movie, Willis’s mess isn’t going away. In fact, it is getting messier.
For reasons that make no sense other than political self-aggrandizement, Willis took it upon herself to begin an investigation and indictment of former president Donald Trump and eighteen others on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges regarding potential 2020 election interference.
I am not a Donald Trump fan but I think the effort is and has been a waste of taxpayer dollars and that any perceived electoral misdeeds on the part of the former president and his supporters should be the responsibility of federal authorities, not Fulton County. Willis should be concentrating on the huge backlog of pending felony cases awaiting trial. Leave Trump and his posse to the Feds.
It has been a mess from the beginning. The first indication was when Willis subpoenaed Georgia’s current Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, one of 16 Trump electors who signed on to an “unofficial electorate certificate” in an effort to undo the Electoral College vote in the 2020 election. This, after she had held a fundraiser for Jones’ Democratic opponent before the election and had donated money to his primary campaign.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney who oversaw the special grand jury proceedings criticized Willis and called it a “What are you thinking moment,” and added, “The optics are horrific.” And the political ineptitude striking.
Fani Willis now finds herself in a mess worse than anything Laurel and Hardy could have dreamed up. A motion filed by attorney Ashleigh Merchant, representing Mike Roman, one of Donald Trump’s codefendants in…
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