Episode 4928: Georgia Appoints A New Attorney Against Trump; Wagging The Dog With Venezuela
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Back with this breaking news, President Trump's 2020 election interference case in Georgia is now in the hands of a new prosecutor after Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis was disqualified in the case. Let's get more from our senior legal reporter, Lisa Rubin. Lisa, how significant is this?
Well, today was the deadline for Peter Scandaculis, who is the chair of this prosecuting council in Georgia, to find someone to potentially replace Fannie Willis after the Supreme Court of Georgia decided she needed to be removed from the case because of the appearance of impropriety. And you see, as per our reporting this morning, that Peter Scandaculis appointed Peter Scandaculis. significant in the sense that there is or could be some forward motion. But that doesn't necessarily mean that there will be. Among the options for Peter Scandaculis, of course, is not only reviving the case, but choosing not to revive the case. And as you and I both know, earlier this week, President Trump pardoned dozens of people who were allegedly involved in the fake elector scheme, many of them defendants and ongoing defendants in this Georgia case, if it were to be revived.
So look to see what he's going to do in the next couple of weeks. If he does want to prosecute the case, then I think that he will notify Judge Scott McAfee. I'd like to have a conference. Let's get this train moving again. But if he doesn't, he may also make some sort of official announcement as to why he is wrapping the case up. Either way, I expect in the next several weeks, we'll hear from Mr. Skandakalis about what his plans are on it. How far along was the case? The case was reasonably far along. Discovery had concluded. There were many pretrial motions that were decided. In fact, one of those pretrial motions dealt with some of the charges around the RICO charge. The main charge here was a state racketeering conspiracy.
But there were other charges that had to do with Georgia election law and sort of more straightforward interfering with the process of certifying electors, for example. Two defendants in particular got some of those charges dismissed, John Eastman, the Trump attorney, and Sean Still, a Georgian. They succeeded in getting those dismissed, saying this is an inherently federal proceeding. The state of Georgia had no business bringing state election charges against us for the process of certifying electors. Perhaps we could see that argument sort of being revivified if Mr. Scandaculis goes forward, because that is the basis on which the administration has justified its pardons of folks all across these fake-door-elector schemes from Georgia to Michigan to Wisconsin to Nevada.
But let's say it stays a state case. The president couldn't do anything about it, could he?
If it stays a state case, the president cannot do anything about it other than to advance the arguments that he has on the basis for which he made these pardons. You and I both know that constitutionally, the president has no power to pardon anyone for a state crime. But again, his position here is that These pardons are justifiable because these aren't, in fact, state crimes. They are federal crimes for which these folks were never charged and the state had no right to bring them. So look to see whether or not any of these folks in the Georgia case or in any of the other cases, as they move forward, feel like they need to go back to that and say, hey, wait a second, I have a new argument that I need to make that pertains to my defense.
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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