From the Atlanta Daily World:
Fani Willis will continues as Fulton County District Attorney after she was defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer on Election Day. Willis, initially elected as D.A. in 2021, made national headlines during tenure by indicting high-profile figures such as President Donald Trump and rapper Young Thug. Last week, Young Thug took plead guilty and was released … Continued
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I’m surprised she got reelected after the complete shitshow Young Thug trial
This video is not the most direct and proper source but it is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhG6ye7U3A
She through what was realistically our best chance at getting Trump off the 2024 election when she could have just not assigned someone she had a personal relationship to the trial. We should also blame the INCREDIBLY weak Merrick Garland for not also pursing these charges, and we can blame both for waiting as long as they did.
But damn. What an unforced error.
Garland has a bigtime reputation for being the strict, no-nonsense, stick to the procedure guy. The dorky accountant whose spreadsheet fussiness took down the Al Capones of the world. There was real reason to think he was dotting his i’s and crossing his t’s to make his case airtight, building legal precedent from the ground up by taking down lowly jan 6th terrorists nobody really cared about. It would have been a phenomenal strategy.
Then: nope.