Donald Trump and his co-defendants received a major break after the Georgia Court Of Appeals decided to hear an appeal on the possible removal of Fani Willis from the election interference case.
On May 8, the three-judge panel decided to take the appeal which guarantees that Trump and his co-defendants will not go to trial before the November election.
Judge Scott McAfee initially ruled that the defendants failed to prove that Willis benefitted from her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. However, he gave a ruling that Willis or Wade would have to step aside from the case. Wade resigned.
This appeal focuses on comments that Willis made during her MLK Day speech at historic Big Bethel AME Church. In his ruling, McAfee said Willis’ remarks were “legally improper.”
“The Court also found that District Attorney Willis’ nationally publicized speech at Big Bethel AME Church on January 14, 2024 was ‘legally improper’ but declined to disqualify her on the basis of this forensic misconduct,” Trump’s defense team wrote.
The RICO case centers around the 2020 election probe when Trump asked former Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a phone call to help him secure over 11,000 votes, the amount in which he trailed Joe Biden in Georgia.
During a recorded call that took place on Jan. 2, 2021, Trump told Raffensperger, “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”
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