Trump Court Case Delayed Amid Prosecutor Controversy – Updates and Details

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  Marieke de Vries

  Journalist from the United States

Good court news for presidential candidate Trump; The Georgia Court of Appeals will consider his lawyers’ claims that the prosecutor in the case against him should be disqualified. The reason is that she was involved in a romantic relationship with a colleague, which she has not been honest about.

As this will now be examined by appeal, this trial will not commence at this time. Yesterday it was announced that the judge has indefinitely postponed the case against Trump in Florida to withhold secret state documents.

In Georgia, the focus is on Trump’s possible collusion with other people suspected of manipulating the results of the 2020 election. The phone call that Trump made shortly after the elections to the highest official in charge of the elections in the state of Georgia plays an important role in this. Trump pressured Brad Raffensperger to find him 11,780 votes, enough to challenge Biden’s victory.

Attorney General Fani Willis spent two years investigating Trump’s actions. An investigative jury decided last August that there was enough evidence to indict Trump and 18 co-defendants for, among other things, conspiracy to influence the results of the election.

At the time of the investigation, Willis was in a relationship with Nathan Wade, a lawyer on her investigative team, with whom she went on romantic outings. According to Trump’s lawyers, that relationship has created an “unavoidable conflict of interest,” forcing her to remove her entire team from the case. But the judge presiding over the case decided that Willis could stay on the case while Wade resigned. Trump’s lawyers have appealed for this, and as a result the Court of Appeal will consider this case now.

According to former prosecutor Neama Rahmani, Willis fired; “This issue will not happen again before the elections in November,” Rahmani told Newsweek magazine. “It was already a complicated case with all the suspects, but she completely ruined it by hiring her boyfriend and thus creating an unnecessary circus.”

Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis agrees: “This case won’t go to trial until early 2025 at the earliest. The whole process has been thrown out until big at the moment.”

In the same week that porn actress Stormy Daniels embarrassed former President Trump in New York with details of their relationship, it seems that there are two other matters that are much more important against him now on hold until after the election. Trump’s tactic of appeals and delays has been so successful that he is likely to spend less time in court this year than originally expected and will have his hands free for a full campaign.