An Explosive New Book Creates More Scandal For Prosecutor Fani Willis
If Willis Compromised Secret Grand Jury Materials? Every Case Will Be Tossed.
Most times, an explosive criminal case in a courtroom that garners massive national attention has reached its exciting conclusion with a jury verdict when the books start to be written and are published some months later.
But another strange feature of the rampant over-the-top, scorched-earth lawfare being frantically implemented to stop President Donald J. Trump’s reelection bid is that the books are coming out even before the trials are held.
Books like “Find Me The Votes” by reporters Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman.
It should be noted that the cases being prosecuted against Trump and 18 others in Fulton County GA are all still in the pre-trial phase at this point. While several indicted defendants accepted plea deals - such as former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis - others insist on continuing to plead not guilty and take their cases to trial.
Having covered criminal cases using grand juries in the past, I’m a little more than passingly familiar with the nature of grand jury investigations and rules.
This thread on X/Twitter caught my eye with its discussion about Isikoff & Klaidman’s forthcoming book’s explosive new revelations about how Fani Willis and her corrupt prosecution team have been handling the cases against Trump and his 18 codefendants in Fulton County, Georgia.
First, here’s the thread:
Carefully note the phrase “…during the grand jury investigation of Trump.”
Carefully note the phrase “exclusive access to thousands of secret documents, emails, text messages, and audio recordings…”
I had to read that several times because the words caused massive mental explosions inside my brain. I’m talking about massive cognitive dissonance.
From what the publisher’s own synopsis clearly says, it certainly DOES appear as if Willis and her team of prosecutors in Fulton County gave news media reporters Isikoff and Klaidman access to secret grand jury materials **while that grand jury was still hearing evidence and before the indictments were issued against Trump and the others accused**.
Note how carefully the publishers avoid using the magic words ‘grand jury’ in that synopsis.
But if Isikoff and Klaidman are shadowing Willis and her prosecution team for two years as they wrote this book, getting all of this extraordinary ‘exclusive’ access to thousands of ‘secret documents, emails, text messages and audio recordings’ as the case against Trump and others was built, how does one avoid coming to the conclusion these reporters were being shown the same evidence the grand jury was being given during its supposedly ‘secret’ investigation and deliberations?
I can't even BEGIN to tell you all the lines this would cross...all the rules and clearly established laws it would break…if this book synopsis is in any way accurate.
If she was letting reporters look over grand jury material while that grand jury was still conducting its investigation and preparing indictments? I think Willis will not only end up having all these cases dropped; she’s gonna be VERY LUCKY not to get disbarred and end up in jail.
Grand Jury 101: Why You Can’t Share Secret Grand Jury Material With The Freaking Press
OK, I'll take a stab at it BEGINNING to tell you just how bad this is...
Prosecutors at ANY LEVEL, county, state, or federal, are very well aware it is a significant breach of a defendant's rights to share their prosecution evidence directly with the press at any time before a criminal case has concluded.
Until a defendant is declared GUILTY, GUILTY GUILTY by a jury? The PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE takes precedence. Our entire system of criminal law and constitutional rights is based on that.
This is why prosecutors use the SECRET GRAND JURY SYSTEM to investigate potential defendants for accused crimes by law and by rule. Emphasis on the word SECRET.
Did you know MANY people who are investigated for serious crimes by a grand jury are never charged? This is because the accusation is either false, or there simply isn't enough concrete evidence for the grand jury to return an indictment.
ITS TRUE.
So, protecting the names of the people investigated by grand juries who are never charged with anything is of paramount importance.
And this book synopsis sure does make it SOUND like Willis was sharing all her info and evidence with these two reporters [and maybe other media members] long before this stuff got to the trial phase.
It would be absolutely stunning if she did this, and based on everything else she's been caught doing, I would not rule it out. I would say there is a very STRONG possibility she shared grand jury materials and deliberations on people NEVER INDICTED with these journalists from Yahoo News.
And even if suspects did have an indictment returned against them by the grand jury, Willis has violated the right of confidentiality by sharing evidence against them with reporters before the unsealing of their charges, and then during the discovery phase, which is where all the defendant's cases are at currently.
There is a REASON stuff is done confidentially and under seal during the grand jury, indictment, arraignment and discovery phases of a prosecution before a trial actually starts in the courtroom. ONLY ONCE THE TRIAL STARTS is anybody not directly involved in the case supposed to be seeing what the state's case is against the accused.
So when a prosecutor can convince a grand jury there is enough evidence to sustain an indictment of a prospective defendant after that indictment is unsealed in court and the defendant has legal counsel present and enters a plea, MOST, IF NOT ALL of the state's case against the accused is kept strictly under wraps until the trial begins. This is to PROTECT THE RIGHTS of the accused.
Only **AFTER** the state's full case against the accused has been aired in court before a jury or judge does anybody outside the court, the defendant's team, or the prosecution team get to see what all the evidence is.
So what happened here was a direct violation of the rights of every defendant going to trial in these cases in Fulton County, GA cases. If Fani Willis was letting Fake News Media reporters examine and search through grand jury materials as criminal cases were being built.
A prosecutor who, before the discovery/pre-trial phase is even finished, is sharing the evidence with the press in secret is not only grounds for dismissing all of the cases, but Willis is going to be EXTREMELY LUCKY if she does not get disbarred and sent to prison for a brief term, likely a few months. That’s how serious this is if she did this. It would be prosecutorial misconduct of the highest order.
What Happens Next If Willis Is Yanked And All The Cases Are Dismissed?
Everybody who expected the next 10 months in Georgia to be filled with scenes of Trump and his codefendants hysterically trying to fend off the heroic and noble public servant Fani Willis as she closes in on them and begins sending them to prison?
CONGRATULATIONS!
You're about to spend the next 10 months watching a very DIFFERENT MOVIE from the one you expected. 😬
Instead of watching Trump sweat in the courtroom and being prevented from campaigning for his reelection as Willis prepares to send him to prison for the rest of his life, you get to watch Willis and her loverboy Nathan Wade frantically trying to keep themselves from being disbarred and ending up in jail themselves.
When prosecutors engage in blatant in-your-face misconduct, their prosecutions cannot go forward.
People who think, 'Ah, no problem, they give Fani the hook and insert another prosecutor, and voila! Problem solved!' do not know how this actually works.
All her cases would be tainted now beyond recovery.
So Georgia officials higher up the chain at both the state and county level have only 2 options, and both of them really freaking SUCK if you're anti-Trump.
1. Give Fani the hook, dismiss all her cases, and START OVER AGAIN. With a new prosecution team starting from scratch. New grand juries and new indictments… which, in a best-case scenario, will take about a year.
2. Ditch Fani, end it.
My take?
Since they never really HAD a case to begin with? And they know this? The whole thing was smoke and mirrors?
Because this blatant and incompetent nonsense lawfare prosecution of Trump was all about ELECTION INTERFERENCE, and if they have to start all over again with a new prosecution team?
They know that they'll never get it to trial before this November.
So here’s what they’re going to do:
They ditch Fani and end it.
Ain’t life grand?
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Outstanding Brian! Interesting how all the foot soldiers in this whole Lawfare gambit are unethical, low-life slugs whose scumbag personal traits seem to always blow up their "cases" and in their faces. Good for the White Hats, in the end, although the unspeakable trauma that many, like these co-defendants and the J6ers, are being put through has got to be compensated for and the perpetrators severely punished. Not sure that a few months in prison would be nearly enough....
Thanks Brian. You provided great insight into the way things are legally supposed to work and the illegal bullshit this asshole Fani (pun intended) went about this "investigation". The whole daughter of a civil rights leader ruse was all planned by the DS Rat Bastards and Fani saw personal stardom at the end. She must have gotten all her legal knowledge from a Cracker Jack box. Dumber then a box of hammers.
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