# Georgia’s Trump Case Collapses Under Weight of Its Own flaws
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 too Pete Skandalakis, she is demonstrably correct. Serving as Willis’s replacement after her removal from teh Trump case for personal misconduct in hiring her former lover as lead prosecutor, Skandalakis found the case against trump and his associates worthy of dismissal. In so doing, he suggested (as did many of us) that the entire foundation for the case was flawed from the outset.
Some of us have been loud critics of the racketeering case brought by Willis from the outset, calling it legally and factually absurd. The loosely constructed theory placed Trump at the center of an enterprise with 18 other individuals who had little to do with each other as a group, let alone in a conspiracy.
The case was always an example of raw, open lawfare, but Willis was widely heralded by politicians and pundits for her efforts. even when she was found to have hired her former lover,Nathan Wade,and botched the prosecution,she was lionized by the left.
the grand jury report was a mess. The case began as a virtual circus with a grand jury report that was a mess and a self-proclaimed witch as foreperson. Emily Kohrs proceeded to give spellbinding, giggling interviews touting the merits of the case.
Skandalakis shredded the case against Trump and the other defendants, noting that it was premised on biased assumptions about individuals’ motivations. Such as, he criticized Willis for charging former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and others over their statements to the Georgia Legislature. He observed that such charges “would have a chilling effect on witnesses,” and raised “serious constitutional questions” concerning free speech.Likewise, he expressly criticized the charging of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows over a call Trump had with Georgia election officials asking them to “find 11,780 votes.” As many of us have written, Skandalakis 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 responded to the news with a shrug and moved on after years of fawning over Willis and running misleading stories on the legal merits. Pundits who appeared nightly to support the prosecution as manifestly well-founded were nowhere to be found.
Former prosecutor Joyce Vance said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the prosecution “looks like a slam dunk.” Others,like former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, praised Willis’s efforts.
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