Democrats have fawned over every Fani Willis step following her indictment of Donald Trump last summer.
But the cheering is vanishing.
Because Fani Willis made a major mistake.
And it is about to unravel her witch hunt against Donald Trump for good, according to a former U.S. Attorney.
A former U.S. Attorney pointed out the fatal problem in Willis’ indictment
When Fulton County Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis indicted former President Donald Trump and several co-defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act – which was enacted to curb organized crime, like the mafia – she did so by arguing that they’d “made false statements concerning fraud in the November 3, 2020, Presidential election.”
Trump’s attorneys countered by filing a motion to dismiss the charges on the basis that Willis was seeking to criminalize First Amendment-protected political activity.
Regardless of how Judge Scott McAfeee rules on the First Amendment argument, Willis’ case has much bigger legal issues.
As U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman explained to Fox News’ Dana Perino, in any RICO indictment, the prosecution is required to present evidence of a pattern of criminal activity in order to establish that a conspiracy actually transpired – without evidence of an actual conspiracy, there can be no RICO case.
But according to Tolman, in examining Willis’ case against Trump, he’s been struck by the fact that the only pattern the Democrat prosecutor can show through evidence is that Trump’s team consistently worked through the court system to legally contest the election.
“I found it fascinating that the county attorney, you may have heard him make reference to the pattern, the pattern is the part of the racketeering charge, a pattern of corruption or criminal activity that has to be presented,” Tolman explained. “And he is throwing that in because the indictment itself is incredibly weak in terms of its treatment of a pattern of criminal behavior.”
Similar patterns emerge as lawfare foot soldiers invent legal theories and non-existent crimes
The U.S. Attorney proceeded to point out that it is exceedingly difficult for Willis and her office to honestly argue that Trump and his supporters attempted to illegally overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election when all of their efforts – including the submission of an alternate slate of electors, which Willis and other Democrats have argued is the most egregious offense – were conducted within the established court system.
“When you have, you know, folks like [former Republican National Committee Chairwoman] Ronna [Romney McDaniel], or you have in Georgia and other states you have individuals suggesting that the electors need to be replaced – that they don’t have it right there is fraud that has occurred – I mean, then they challenge it in court, that’s very difficult to say that’s a pattern of corruption or criminal activity when they are doing it through the court system,” Tolman concluded.
Of course, Democrats’ other witch hunts against Trump also have similar issues.
For example, Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump for questioning the 2020 election’s results and urging then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the Electoral College results, but there is no law against Trump’s actions.
In reality, Smith simply turned Democrats’ already failed impeachment of Trump for supposedly “inciting an insurrection” on January 6 into a criminal case by somehow claiming the former President had “defrauded” the American people in the process.
However, decades of Supreme Court precedent dictates that in order for a defendant to be convicted of fraud, the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they cheated someone out of money or property, which is obviously not the case in this situation.
In a similar fashion, Manhattan Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted Trump over a supposed campaign finance violation that he simply does not have jurisdiction over.
Campaign finance violations are federal crimes, and therefore, fall under the purview of the Biden Department of Justice, which has already investigated the matter and determined that no such violation occurred.
Furthermore, New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James hit Trump with a civil action for supposedly defrauding his banks by inflating the values of his properties in order to secure loans for his company’s development projects.
But no single bank Trump allegedly “defrauded” has claimed to be the victim of any crime – in fact, every one of them have stated on the record that no fraud occurred, that they were paid back in full with interest within the terms of the loan, and that they’d gladly do business with the former President again.
Willis’ witch hunt against Trump is no different, as her only argument rests on the idea that it’s somehow illegal for a Republican to challenge the results of an election.
And that total perversion of the justice system may just be the undoing of Democrats’ witch hunts against Donald Trump.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.