The Georgia prosecutor leading the charge in Donald Trump’s election interference case is “ready and willing” to move up his trial date, she said in a new interview Tuesday.
“I always say, ‘Stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready,’” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Willis then acknowledged the fluidity of court proceedings that can turn on a dime, as Special Counsel Jack Smith proved Monday with a top-of-the-fold filing demanding the Supreme Court consider Trump’s presidential immunity claims.
Smith hopes to fast-track his federal election fraud case to ensure Trump stands trial before the 2024 election which, if Trump claims victory, could reinstate the immunity he says protected past actions.
But the move could prove risky, because if the court rules Trump’s post- 2020 election acts are protected as presidential acts, his and Willis’ cases could be “doomed.”
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Willis didn't directly address Smith's new tactic in the interview, but his name did come up when asked about the Republican senators who've accused her of "colluding" with the House Jan. 6 investigators and demanded to see her communications with the special counsel's office.
"It’s just politics,” Willis reportedly said. “They worry the hero is treated the same as everybody else. And now they want to come up with foolishness.”
While Willis has suggested a court date of Aug. 5, 2024, just a few weeks after the Republican Party selects its nominee, Willis says she’ll be prepared whenever she must to take on, in person, the former-president she accuses of corruptly attempting to overturn the presidential election in her state.
“I don’t think anyone should ever be surprised if D.A. Willis enters a courtroom,” Willis told the local news outlet. Willis reportedly added that she is “a trial lawyer at my soul.”
