In her sometimes bizarre and often combative testimony, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis explained, “I just think men and women think differently.” At least when it comes to Pete Skandalakis, she’s demonstrably right. Skandalakis served as Willis’ replacement following her removal from the Trump case for personal misconduct in hiring her former lover as lead prosecutor and deemed the case against Trump and his associates worthy of dismissal. In doing so, he (like many of us) suggested that the entire basis for the case was flawed from the start.
Some of us have been vocal critics of the racketeering case brought by Willis from the beginning, calling it legally and factually absurd. The loosely constructed theory placed Trump at the center of an enterprise involving eighteen other individuals who had little to do with each other as a group, let alone in a conspiracy.
President Donald Trump (left) and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (right). Prosecutors in Georgia want more time to appoint a new lawyer after Willis was disqualified from handling Trump’s election interference case. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)
The case was always an example of raw, open litigation, but Willis was widely praised by politicians and pundits for her efforts. Even when it emerged that she had hired her former lover, Nathan Wade, and bungled the prosecution, she was reviled by the left.
The jury report was one rubbish. The case started as a virtual circus with a jury report that… rubbish and a self-proclaimed witch as the protagonist. Emily Kohrs went on to give mesmerizing, giggling interviews promoting the merits of the case.
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Skandalakis has ripped apart the case against Trump and the other defendants, noting that it was based on biased assumptions about individuals’ motivations. For example, he criticized Willis for blaming former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others for their statements to the Georgia Legislature. He noted that such accusations would have “a chilling effect on witnesses” and raised “serious constitutional questions” about freedom of expression.
Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade sits in court during a hearing in the State of Georgia’s case against Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. The hearing will determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case over a relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images) (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)
Likewise, he pointedly criticized former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ accusation over a phone call Trump had with election officials in Georgia asking them to “find 11,780 votes.” If many of us have writtenSkandalakis noted that “reasonable minds could differ as to how to interpret the call.” That call was the focus of much of the media and political support for the prosecution.
Much of the media shrugged the news and moved on after years of whispering about Willis and spreading misleading stories about the legal merits. Experts who showed up every night to support the prosecution as apparently well-founded were nowhere to be seen.
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Former prosecutor Joyce Vance said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the prosecutor “looks like a slam dunkOthers, such as former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, praised Willis’ efforts. Laurence Tribe, who supported a litany of ridiculous charges against Trump, including attempted murder, announced The prosecution is based on irrefutable evidence.
The media, ignoring any opposing views, has moved on to the new narrative of the death of democracy with the same pundits.
With the long-overdue collapse of the Georgia case, three of the four criminal charges are now dead. Trump was convicted in his hush money case in New York, but was sentenced to no prison time. That case is still before the court and could also be quashed entirely.
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Willis has spent millions on this effort, wasting her office staff and costing the courts a lot of time and effort. But despite the revelations about her misconduct and the poor handling of the case, she was re-elected. She knew the mafia and the media. It didn’t matter whether she lost or spent a fortune. The pursuit of Trump remains a self-affirming testament to the left.
ATLANTA, GA – MARCH 01: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia against Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. The hearing will determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case over a relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images) (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)
Of course, there remains the status of Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro and Scott Hall, all of whom decided to cut deals at lower costs. The deals allowed them to avoid additional costs and time without losing their licenses or facing jail time. Such deals are not necessarily negated by subsequent decisions to drop a case. In fact, they usually agree to forego appeals.
In her testimony, Willis was often disinterested and unprofessional. But that too was largely ignored by the fawning media. She waved papers and shouted, “Lies! Lies! Lies!’ while the left complimented her on her resistance. At one point she emphasized that the interests of the opposing party are “contrary to democracy, your honor, and not mine.”
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The conclusion of this case only confirms that it was only her interests that prevented this prosecution from supporting her former lover with a huge salary to advance her political career. The people of Fulton County paid that bill and then re-elected her.
Even Emily Kohrs got her 15 minutes of fame, seemingly mesmerized by the process, which she described as “really cool…I got 60 seconds of eye contact with everyone who walked into the room. You can tell a lot about people in those 60 seconds.’ She talked about how “insanely excited” she was about the chance to play a role in the charges. At the end of the case, only the madness remained.
