Legal scholar Jonathan Turley has overruled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over the charges against President Donald Trump and 18 others.
As Slay News reported earlier, a Georgia grand jury has indicted Trump, charging the 45th POTUS with felony racketeering and numerous conspiracy charges.
In addition to charging Trump, the grand jury returned an indictment on Monday of 18 other people as co-defendants.
The indictment mentions 30 unindicted “co-conspirators.”
Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, blasted DA Willis over her get-Trump case.
“What’s concerning, particularly about this is that Willis didn’t really show any semblance of restraint,” Turley said on Fox News.
“She indicted everyone for everything she could think of.
“It is sort of the Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution.
“She threw it all against the canvas.
“And I think she is hoping that some of these other co-defendants will flip.
“I think partially she went with the RICO charge is because she’s quite familiar with it.
“This is a prosecutor who made her name bringing RICO state, RICO cases.
“Also, it allows for this type of overarching conspiracy.
“I mean, she is listing over 160 acts.
“They’re often phone calls, meetings, tweets.
“She just calls them all criminal.
“She says that they all were knowingly false.
“And with that broad brush, she’s able to indict everyone and bring in 19 people into that courtroom.
“That’s the benefit of using a racketeering approach,” Turley said.
“But it also increases the danger for the country in terms of how we will handle contested elections in the future.”
WATCH:
The full list of the indicted is below:
- Donald Trump
- Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer
- Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff
- John Eastman, Trump lawyer
- Kenneth Chesebro, pro-Trump lawyer
- Jeffrey Clark, top Justice Department official
- Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign lawyer
- Robert Cheeley, lawyer
- Mike Roman, Trump campaign official
- David Shafer, Georgia GOP chair
- Shawn Still
- Stephen Lee, pastor
- Harrison Floyd, leader of Black Voices for Trump
- Trevian Kutti, publicist
- Sidney Powell, Trump campaign lawyer
- Cathy Latham, tied to Coffee County breach
- Scott Hall, tied to Coffee County election system breach
- Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor
- Ray Smith
The scope of the alleged conspiracy is massive. Indeed, every call, speech, and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. https://t.co/T7RzCJbljR
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 15, 2023
