Here's Fani Willis' secret weapon delivering 'big wins' in Trump racketeering case

Fani Willis has a key prosecutor in her camp who has been, unbeknownst to many political observers, instrumental in the office's victories, including the guilty pleas from three attorneys for former President Donald Trump, reported Vanity Fair on Thursday.

"The surprising, rapid-fire run of recent guilty pleas by former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis showcased a member of Willis’s team whom Trump and his remaining codefendants will be getting to know much better," wrote Chris Smith. "Daysha Young, a tough-minded, experienced prosecutor who was speaking for the state of Georgia in those three court appearances, is the executive assistant district attorney. And Young, a Georgia defense lawyer says, is the kind of trial lawyer who can instill real fear in defendants."

Young first cut her teeth working on child abuse and sex crime cases in the special victims division of the Fulton County prosecutors office, including against two foster parents convicted of the brutal beating death of a two-year-old girl.

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"Prosecuting the case against Trump should cause her relatively little discomfort," said the report. "Young’s conspicuous recent court appearances were in the service of big wins. Powell led the post-election attack on Dominion Voting Systems and pressed for access to Georgia’s voting machines. She pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of intentional election interference. Chesebro was charged with helping create a fake slate of Trump-supporting electors. He pleaded guilty to one felony conspiracy count."

The most recent of these pleas was Ellis, who tearfully admitted to a felony charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writings — while an "all business" Young proclaimed to the court that “the false statements were made with reckless disregard for the truth,” and tied it to Rudy Giuliani, another accused key architect of the election subversion scheme.

"The evidence and leverage Willis, Young, and company are assembling as they roll up guilty pleas from codefendants might exert some influence," on how the former president handles the charges before him, concluded the report.