{"id":2365652,"date":"2024-11-07T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fani-willis-rico-case-has-bleak-future-after-trump-election-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:19:18","slug":"fani-willis-rico-case-has-bleak-future-after-trump-election-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fani-willis-rico-case-has-bleak-future-after-trump-election-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fani Willis RICO case has bleak future after Trump election &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffani-willis-rico-case-has-bleak-future-after-trump-election-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2365652&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The prosecution of Donald Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faces significant challenges, particularly following recent developments that may hinder the case&#8217;s progress. A\u2062 judge \u2064has already weakened\u2062 the indictment by removing several charges, and the Georgia Court \u2062of Appeals \u2063has agreed to review a potential disqualification of Willis from the case. Additionally, the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling \u200bon presidential immunity introduces further uncertainty regarding the prosecution of Trump \u200dwhile he serves in office, as the Department of Justice traditionally avoids prosecuting \u200csitting presidents to \u2064maintain the separation of powers. Insiders suggest that the Georgia case, currently\u200d in its pretrial phase, may ultimately be dismissed. However,\u2062 several co-defendants implicated in the case, such \u2063as Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, still face charges, \u2062as they do not benefit from the same protections as Trump.\u200c Should the case continue, these co-defendants are likely to remain involved, irrespective \u2064of Trump&#8217;s status.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Fani Willis RICO case has bleak future after Trump election<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1875209\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fani-willis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fani Willis<\/a>&rsquo;s prosecution against President-elect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;was already in trouble, but it may never pick back up now that Trump is headed for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A judge weakened the indictment this year by scrapping several charges from it. At the same time, the entire case was also thrust into a state of uncertainty after the Georgia Court of Appeals agreed to consider disqualifying Willis and after the Supreme Court issued its presidential immunity decision.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the event that the indictment does survive those glaring challenges, prosecuting Trump for the eight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/giuliani-to-surrender-wednesday-in-georgia-for-charges-tied-to-2020-election\/\" title=\"Giuliani to turn himself in on Wednesday in Georgia for 2020 election-related charges.\">2020 election-related charges<\/a> he is facing appears to be an impossibility while he is in office.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice has a long-standing policy that prosecuting presidents would interfere with the separation of powers and that it is best practice to avoid it. The DOJ already signaled it would terminate Trump&rsquo;s two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/terrorism-homicide-prosecutors-brought-in-to-try-capitol-riot-defendants-for-crimes-like-trespassing\/\" title=\"Terrorism, Homicide Prosecutors Brought In To Try Capitol Riot Defendants For Crimes Like Trespassing\">federal criminal cases<\/a>, and his two state cases in Georgia and New York could soon meet similar fates.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with Trump&rsquo;s legal plans predicted the Georgia case, which is only in a pretrial phase, would be tossed out, a remark that comes as Trump&rsquo;s sentencing for his New York conviction for falsifying business records&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3221641\/trump-election-manhattan-hush-money-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">appears<\/a>&nbsp;increasingly unlikely to occur.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Looking holistically at the entire legal situation here, I mean, the campaign of lawfare against President Trump is now dead. Nothing is going to be moving,&rdquo; the source told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, adding that &ldquo;Georgia is going to get dismissed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One complication in the case is several co-defendants, including former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and former Trump DOJ official Jeff Clark, are still staring down charges in the case as well, and they are not protected by the DOJ&rsquo;s policy.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline Summerville, a Georgia-based attorney and consultant, said in the scenario where the case resumes after the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled on disqualification, the remaining co-defendants could still be obligated to participate in the case without Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3191374\/dates-2024-presidential-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>KEY DATES FOR THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It can still absolutely go forward without him,&rdquo; Summerville told&nbsp;the<em>&nbsp;Washington Examiner.<\/em>&nbsp;&ldquo;The deal with the RICO cases is that it&rsquo;s difficult to try a bunch of people together, but that&rsquo;s become sort of a trend because they&rsquo;re establishing the conspiracy. &hellip; It would be interesting because Trump wouldn&rsquo;t be able to testify if it was moving forward against the others, right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She also said if Willis is disqualified from the case, it would be handed over to another district attorney and the GOP-controlled state Senate would also have a say in the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Summer another district attorney would decide the case &ldquo;does not serve the public interest&rdquo; and choose not to continue it.<\/p>\n<p>Willis is facing the prospect of disqualification because of a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">previously undisclosed romantic relationship<\/a> she had with a former special prosecutor she hired to lead the case. The Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments on Willis&rsquo;s disqualification in December and will issue a decision sometime next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1875209\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1875209\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fani Willis&#8217;s RICO case against Trump faces a grim future post-election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2365653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fanitrumpcaseimmunity.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[35250,32714,44561,41723,32076],"class_list":["post-2365652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-fani-willis","tag-legal-challenges","tag-rico-case","tag-trump-election","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fanitrumpcaseimmunity.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365657,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365652\/revisions\/2365657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}