According to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, it was said earlier this week that the racketeering trial involving former President Donald Trump may extend beyond the 2024 election and potentially continue into the early months of 2025.
“I believe in that case there will be a trial. I believe the trial will take many months,” Willis said in a Tuesday interview at the Washington Post Live’s Global Women’s Summit. “And I don’t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025.”
The commencement date of the trial has not yet been disclosed. Donald Trump, along with a group of 18 other co-defendants, has been formally charged. It is worth noting that four individuals from this group have previously entered into plea agreements.
The legal teams for former President Trump have been making efforts to postpone his several trials, which are taking place in New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, and Georgia, until after the 2024 election. In her recent statements, Willis asserted that her decision to press charges against the individual, who currently holds a significant lead as the Republican Party’s primary candidate, was not influenced by the ongoing presidential race.
“I don’t, when making decisions about cases to bring, consider any election cycle or an election season,” she said. “That does not go into the calculus. What goes into the calculus is: This is the law. These are the facts. And the facts show you violated the law. Then charges are brought.”
According to Axios, it has been observed that President Trump is currently confronted with the possibility of two criminal prosecutions scheduled to commence in March, coinciding with the Super Tuesday primaries.
Willis has encountered significant scrutiny for initiating legal proceedings against the former president, including criticism from individuals holding far-left political ideologies.
In an article published in Jacobin, Amos Barshad, a writer based in London, referenced several instances in which Willis utilized the state’s RICO provisions to bring charges against individuals, such as former President Donald Trump and two Atlanta-based rappers. These examples were employed by Barshad to support his thesis.
“Known for prosecuting Donald Trump on election subversion charges, Atlanta DA Fani Willis is using another high-profile RICO case involving rapper Young Thug to boost her image. But critics say her popularity is obscuring the wrongful nature of the case,” Barshad began.
He revealed that on May 9, 2022, rapper Lil Duke—actual name Martinez Arnold—took a plane from Los Angeles to Atlanta. From there, he went to the residence of his longtime buddy and colleague, renowned rapper Young Thug, real name Jeffrey Williams.
When police stormed Williams’ house later that day, they detained both men and twenty-six additional people. Willis filed an indictment against them, claiming that Williams’ record label and rap group, YSL, was actually a criminal enterprise. According to the indictment, Arnold violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) by taking part in YSL. In Georgia, a RICO violation carries a five-to twenty-year jail sentence, according to Barshad.
He continued, saying:
Willis has become a nationally recognized name thanks both to the YSL case and a concurrent RICO case: the prosecution of former president Donald Trump on election subversion charges. The Washington Post proclaimed Willis’s actions in the latter case could “save democracy.” But defense attorneys working the YSL case say that as Willis is embraced by the national media for her pursuit of Trump, the local people caught in her legal system — people like Arnold — are left harmed.
The national media’s fixation on the Trump case has further lionized the role of the American prosecutor — and boosted the archetype of the “prosecutor politician,” a mainstay of both major political parties. That lineage includes everyone from former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani to former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R), former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Vice President Kamala Harris. All of them built their political careers in part off their work as prosecutors.
The individual proceeded to mention that the term “prosecutor politician” was initially introduced by Jed Shugerman, a professor of law at Boston University, in the year 2017.
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