by Steve Cortes
With election season officially underway in America, recent scandalous allegations of corruption in Georgia reinforce the need of all Americans to repel the powerful forces that align to steal away the electoral agency of patriotic citizens.
In Georgia, a co-defendant of President Trump presented court documents alleging that Fani Willis, the partisan District Attorney prosecutor in the Fulton County election interference case, hired her love interest as a special prosecutor against Trump. Moreover, the filings detail that the attorney paramour, Nathan Wade, has received taxpayer funds totaling $654,000 in fees so far — and that Fani Willis benefited directly from luxury travel that the couple enjoyed with the proceeds.
Regarding the veracity of these allegations, defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant told local Atlanta television that she has eyewitnesses prepared to testify to these facts, pledging that “I would never have filed something like this if I didn’t have multiple sources to corroborate.”
Unfortunately, these bombshell Georgia headlines were not the only incendiary newsflashes about powerful forces in America attempting to directly interfere in the upcoming 2024 elections.
Over the weekend, NBC News also posted a detailed report about how Washington powerbrokers already prepare methods to try and thwart President Trump’s executive authority, should he prevail in November. The group, led by a Georgetown Law Professor Mary McCord, is “bracing for Trump’s potential return.” NBC describes the alliance as “a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers…quietly devising plans to try to foil any efforts to expand presidential power.”
The clear underlying message of the NBC piece very much echoes the infamous Molly Ball column in Newsweek in February of 2021, in which she details the shadowy efforts of various ruling class elites to “fortify” the 2020 election. That network, which twisted and perverted elections practices all over America in 2020 was “the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.”
Both the new NBC article and the older Newsweek piece should be viewed as components of the same effort now afoot in Georgia with this sham indictment of President Trump. The common nefarious goal: to exploit extra-electoral tactics to stymie and thwart the clear populist will of the people.
After all, with Trump on the ballot in Georgia, the citizens of that swing state can clearly use their crucially important votes to render a “verdict” on his 2020 actions themselves. Voters can, and must, decide whether he should return to the White House over Joe Biden.
But instead, this corrupt prosecutor in the deepest blue county of Georgia engages in a weaponized and politicized prosecution. With her schemes, Willis attempts to directly obstruct a clean, fair 2024 campaign and election season.
In reaction to these stunning allegations against her, DA Willis did not provide a reasonable explanation, or any exculpatory evidence. Instead, she politicized an Atlanta pulpit on Sunday where she delivered a pseudo-sermon as a “letter to God” stating that “you cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world.” Naturally, she repeatedly blamed the allegations on racism.
So, what can be done?
Many red states have been too slow or too timid to fight back, and Georgia has the clear ability in this scandal to defend both the funds of citizens and the election integrity of the state.
But timing matters here, greatly, and so a swift sense of urgency must prevail.
Immediately, the GOP-led Georgia Senate should begin investigations and public hearings. After all, even before these new allegations, Georgia Senate Leader Steve Gooch remarked that “Republican leaders could hold legislative hearings into whether Willis is using ‘her position in a political manner.’”
Second, both the governor and the legislature should insist that the newly created Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission investigate Willis. That nonpartisan, official state panel was passed into law just last year, and for exactly to inspect this kind of official malfeasance in office. The PAQC statute specifically authorizes discipline or removal of DA’s for “willful misconduct in office” and for “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the office into disrepute.”
As President Trump seeks a second term, he should only be judged in the court of public opinion with a “verdict” rendered at the ballot box in a clean election. Trump should not be subjected to a corrupt prosecutor like Willis who openly works with the Biden administration to try to jail the chief political opponent of the current president. Talk about a threat to democracy!
Georgia can stop this madness — and needs to act now, with resolve.
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Steve Cortes is former senior advisor to President Trump, former commentator for Fox News and CNN, and president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group.
Photo “Fani Willis” by Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
