Fani Willis used body double in 'dramatic' escape from MAGA threats: authors

Threats against Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis grew so intense that she used a body double wearing body armor to help her escape the courthouse, according to the authors of a new book.

The Georgia prosecutor was deluged with violent threats as she investigated Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, which ultimately resulted in the former president's indictment on racketeering charges with 18 co-defendants. Reporters Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about one particularly alarming incident they uncovered.

"In the days before the indictment, these threats are intensifying against her, and her security staff noticed an assassination threat on a deep web, dark web MAGA site," said Klaidman, co-author of the new book "Find Me The Votes." "The best time to shoot her is when she leaves the building, so they set up an elaborate operation that involves a body double. After the midnight indictment is – she announces the indictment, which she – after the indictment, about 1 in the morning, she and her team go to the back office, where she changes out of her business attire into sweats, a T-shirt and a baseball cap. Meanwhile, someone on her staff, a woman about the same size, an investigator, changes into clothes that are – that resemble what Fani Willis was wearing – black business suit, a string of pearls and a black bob wig."

"The body double goes out the front of the courthouse, she is wearing a bulletproof vest," Klaidman added. "Goes out, the front of the courthouse, gets in the official black SUVs. Meanwhile, Fani Willis and her team go out, slip out the back of the courthouse, get into civilian cars and leave for an undisclosed location. Really, a dramatic moment."

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