'Terrible news for Team Trump': MAGA worries judge's election will ruin Fani Willis attack

The pivotal decider in the sprawling RICO case involving former President Donald Trump and 18 allies who are charged with subverting the election is facing competition to keep his powerful position.

Civil rights attorney and talk radio host Robert Patillo announced he is going to run against Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who until now had been running unopposed.

Patillo is aiming to cinch up his candidacy on Thursday, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, citing multiple sources.

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The challenger is a criminal defense attorney and most notably a former executive director of the social justice and civil rights group founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

He's also been a former candidate for statehouse, appeared as a pundit on cable TV news shows, and has described himself as a conservative Democrat.

News of Patillo's entry in the race to edge out the incumbent judge has Megyn Kelly grimacing.

"Terrible news for Team Trump in Atlanta," she writes on Twitter/X. "Judge McAfee was running unopposed."

She continued:

"Now you get a Jesse Jackson disciple challenging him in a district that went 73% for Biden. McAfee is going to need a rock solid spine to DQ Fani Willis now."

And Patillo appeared to welcome the disruption of his own doing.

"They scared of little ole me," he replied to Kelly.

McAfee is seeking to be elected to a full, four-year term since he was tapped by Gov. Brian Kemp in late 2022.

Since last summer, the 34-year-old McAfee, himself a former prosecutor who worked under Willis, has been presiding over the RICO case being prosecuted by District Attorney Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia.

She has indicted Trump along with 18 of his allies on violations of 16 Georgia statutes including violations of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

Initially all 19 defendants entered a not guilty plea in the case.

But then Trump's former attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro took guilty pleas and were sentenced for their offenses. Jenna Ellis followed them and also pleaded guilty.

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