Kelly Loeffler Op-Ed Attacks Fulton County DA

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Here’s a query: What does the connection between Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis and particular prosecutor Nathan Wade need to do with Donald Trump? As you all know, Willis appointed Wade to prosecute Trump and greater than a dozen co-defendants accused of election interference in Georgia’s 2020 election. The case—which the whiny minions of the MAGA world have been already treating prefer it was Jim Crow for right-wing politicians—got here underneath much more scrutiny after an legal professional for defendant Michael Roman motioned to have Willis and Wade dismissed over an alleged romantic relationship that they had, which Willis ultimately admitted to.

Now, Republicans throughout the nation are performing like they’ve uncovered some big bombshell that destroys Willis’ total narrative and case towards Trump. Don’t get me mistaken, appointing an legal professional Willis had a love affair with as particular prosecutor in a high-profile and closely scrutinized case like this one was, to say the least, unwise, however, finally, what has modified for Trump or any of the opposite defendants on this case?

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On Monday, the Atlanta Journal-Structure revealed an op-ed written by Kelly Loeffler, the previous Republican U.S. senator from Georgia who was unseated in 2020 by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. The op-ed seems to be geared toward calling on Choose Scott McAfee to take away Willis from the case, which, in fact, is fairly pointless contemplating there may be already an ongoing listening to to find out whether or not she must be eliminated.

“Willis’ battle of curiosity shatters any notion that the case towards Trump has been prosecuted pretty. Her scheme is disqualifying,” Loeffler wrote.

How so? How does Wilis having had a relationship with Wade “shatter” any likelihood of Trump having a good trial? What precisely is the “scheme” right here? Irrespective of who serves as particular prosecutor on this RICO case, the alleged proof towards Trump is similar, and no adjustments on the prosecution’s group would make Republicans much less whiney or dissuade them from pretending to be an oppressed group.

“However something lower than a whole dismissal of the case is a bandage on the open wound of a justice system that’s hemorrhaging its core precept of due course of,” Loeffler continued. “Too many prosecutors at present are like Willis and Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg: avid partisans buying and selling neutral justice for political calculation.”

That is the narrative that irritates the hell out of me. Loeffler—the one-term senator who couldn’t persuade KKK members just like the one she was caught taking a selfie with to cease exhibiting up at her re-election marketing campaign rallies to assist her—is attempting to persuade us that Trump is an harmless deer caught within the headlights of Willis’ malicious prosecution as if the previous president didn’t demonstrably embark on a propaganda marketing campaign to steal an election by claiming it was stolen from him.

Right here’s what I wrote about this beforehand:

Right here’s a easy fact: Donald Trump tried to maintain himself in workplace by spreading election fraud propaganda that has been completely debunked.

We all know that, regardless of the handfuls upon dozens of courts that dismissed Trump’s election fraud lawsuits for lack of proof, Trump stayed on his marketing campaign to lie his method into overturning the election outcomes for months and continues to be at the moment dying on that delusional hill.

In Georgia, we all know that Trump pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “discover” non-existent votes that might hand the ex-commander-in-would-be-thief a victory within the Peach State that he didn’t earn. We all know that devoted Trump-stump Rudy Giuliani has lastly admitted to creating false statements concerning the Georgia election being rigged by election employees.

But, with all of this straightforward fact, Republicans are nonetheless pretending there couldn’t probably be any benefit to Trump’s RICO indictment introduced on by Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis (or the grand jury she satisfied, somewhat). Now, Republicans are threatening to take motion towards Willis for—*checks notes*—actually simply doing her job.

In 2020, Loeffler was one of many loudest GOP voices echoing Trump’s claims that election fraud price him his second time period. As lately as final September, she erroneously mentioned, “I don’t know if we’ll ever know” if Trump’s election fraud claims have been true, however the reality is we completely do know that they weren’t. In 2020 alone, dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and supreme courts joined the previous head of election cybersecurity, the former legal professional basic and the DOJ to find that there was by no means a lick of proof to assist the notion that election fraud price Trump his election.

Trump’s “Cease the Steal” marketing campaign is and has at all times been a whole work of fiction. Loeffler and the GOP need us to consider it’s the authorized makes an attempt at holding Trump and his alleged co-conspirators accountable which might be borne from fiction, regardless of actuality staring them proper of their faces.

The reality doesn’t change as a result of Willis had a romantic relationship with Wade, and Loeffler didn’t trouble making any form of an actual argument. She merely continued the Republican follow of repeating the identical narrative again and again with the hopes that it will be accepted as fact.

That’s actually the one technique they’ve.