You have to wonder if one of the people angriest at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg at this moment is Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis down in Georgia.
Reports indicate Willis and her team are considering bringing racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia. If those prosecutors think they have a legitimate shot at convicting Trump on first degree criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, the last thing they want is some other prosecutor bringing a weak case against the former president, “based on a largely untested legal theory” in the words of the New York Times, that even some Trump critics see as a political witch hunt. Trump is arguing that all of the criminal investigations involving him are political witch hunts, an effort by the deep state to prevent his reelection and – ahem – lock him up for the crime of politically opposing them, as opposed to any genuine violation of the law. Bragg is living down to Trump’s ugly portrait of a soft-on-violent-crime DA who is willing to go to extreme lengths to indict a political foe.
In fact, you have to wonder if this leak from “a source with knowledge of the investigation” is a not-so-subtle effort to tell the media, “forget that old, arcane, longshot stuff regarding payments to Stormy Daniels. We’ve got a real case involving a real crime, an effort to overturn the legitimate election results in Georgia.”