[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

The proceedings against Donald Trump in Georgia will continue, and that is a massive defeat for what remains of America as a free republic.

All of the cases against Trump are, or should be, an outrage not just to Trump supporters, but to everyone who still values America as a society that allows for loyal opposition and cherishes the right to dissent. Georgia would easily be the worst if the others weren’t so bad as well. The prosecution claims that Trump led a “criminal racketeering enterprise” whose members” knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome” of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. If successful, the case would certainly harm Trump’s chances of reentering the White House, which is its purpose, but would also criminalize the questioning of any election from now on. That could well be the idea.

Amid all this, the melodrama of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her boy toy, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, is just a sideshow, although the case against Willis has revealed once again America’s two-tier justice system. Willis is gleefully and openly corrupt, squandering public money to carry on with Wade and knowing that all she has to do if the heat on her gets too high is charge her opponents with racism, and all will be well. 

This tired and insulting ploy has worked yet again. Fox News reported Friday that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled preposterously that the defendants in the Trump case, who had filed a motion to dismiss based on Willis’ corrupt dalliances, had “failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor.”

If this wasn’t a conflict of interest, what is? McAfee had to engage in quite a lot of legal gymnastics to arrive at this conclusion, and he proved himself to be nimble indeed. He detailed some of the evidence of Willis’ corruption: “Between October 2022 and May 2023, the District Attorney and Wade traveled together on four occasions that resulted in documentable expenses. The first included an extended trip in October 2022 to Miami and Aruba and a cruise. Wade initially covered expenses for the October 2022 trip totaling approximately $5,223. In December 2022, the two flew to Miami for another cruise for which the District Attorney paid $1,394 for plane tickets, while Wade purchased passage for the cruise along with other vacation-related expenses totalling approximately $3,684.”

And so on and on. McAfee demonstrated that Willis and Wade were living high, and that “on total, Defendants point to an aggregate documented benefit of, at most, approximately $12,000 to $15,000 in the District Attorney’s favor,” but claimed that this wasn’t evidence of corruption, because “these expenditures were not meant as gifts and not designed to benefit the District Attorney. Both testified that the District Attorney regularly reimbursed Wade in cash.” How do we know that Willis reimbursed Wade in cash? Because she said she did.

McAfee did then make a small move toward giving this circus the appearance of rectitude: “However, the established record now highlights a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team – an appearance that must be removed through the State’s selection of one of two options”: Willis could fire Wade, or withdraw from the case.

Wade then resigned, and so that was that. The appearance of impropriety has been avoided, and now Willis, the impartial and justice-minded district attorney, is free to pursue her bogus case against Trump to its conclusion, which the noble DA has every reason to believe will be the destruction of Trump’s presidential hopes and the further blackening of his reputation.

This is America in the run-up to the 2024 election: eye-wateringly corrupt prosecutors get the blessing from politicized judges to continue to pursue legal persecution and harassment of a politician who are out of favor with the political and media elites. But as Trump has often pointed out, it’s not him they’re ultimately after, it’s us. The legal persecution of Donald Trump is just a blueprint for what the left has in store for the rest of America.