Weak Georgia RICO case keeps getting weaker

Fani Willis 'Rattled' By Leaked Videos?

Prosecutors said in the filing that they were not behind the leaks of testimony by Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Scott Hall and Ken Chesebro. ABC News was the first to report about the contents of the interviews late Monday, and several other news organizations, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Washington Post, also obtained video of the testimony. The interviews with prosecutors — known as proffers — are a preview of what witnesses might say if they testify at trial.

The leaked material includes videos of on-camera statements from former Trump attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, as well as Atlanta-based bail bondsman Scott Hall. In Powell’s leaked testimony, she says that Trump really believed he had won the election, which could help Trump’s defense.

So the prosecution is contending that the release of these videos is akin to witness intimidation and an attempt to poison a jury pool. Of course at the heart of both Fanni Willis' and Jack Smith's cases is the reality that they have the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump believed he had lost the election and was challenging the election under false pretenses. If their own key witnesses are providing the opposite, then that spells trouble for Willis and gang. I guess the longer they can keep this from the public the better.

Of course, even if a candidate believes that they may have lost an election there is no laws (in Georgia or anywhere) that states you cannot use up any and all legal action in an attempt to overturn the results. You don't even have to prove that you believe that your legal efforts will succeed. Long shot election challenges take place all the time and nobody is charge with a crime for rolling those dice.

That reality is why Trump is not being directly accused of this sort of thing. Both the Georgia and the Federal cases are using a roundabout method to find other actual crimes to fit with the legal behavior that the left did not like. Both, in the opinion of many legal analysts, are round pegs being shoved into square holes. Willis and Smith just figure if they push hard and long enough that they can force it in.

So the cases are legally dubious to begin with. But they completely fall apart at the seams if they cannot at least prove that Trump's actions were not motivated by deception and lies. Without the "false pretense" argument, they have no case. Literally.

In terms of the Georgia case, things seem to be going less than swimmingly. So far Willis has let all of these people "off the hook" so to speak as none of them have pled guilty to anything remotely associated with any sort of racketeering. They all have pled guilty to minor offenses that certainly seem far removed from the former President. The idea of racketeering is that it is an ongoing organized crime "syndicate" that just is committing so many crimes that everything should be tied together and tried as one big crime. So far, Willis has gotten guilty pleas from people who claim to have signed papers that were not on the up and up or claimed to be someone or something that they were not. These were all unassuming misdemeanors that carried barely a slap on the wrist as a penalty.

One might say that Willis is just not a very good prosecutor and is blowing the case. But the underlying problem is not how she is proceeding, but in the case itself. To call it a stretch is an understatement. The only people who should be tossed in jail are Willis and the Grand Jury who allowed this to take place.