Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday night criticized House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-GA) and his efforts to investigate the prosecutor amid her ongoing 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump and 18 other Republicans.
Maddow noted, "Ms. Willis, I was interested to see in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today, there were three Democratic state senators who published an opinion piece saying, 'We are witnessing a concerted effort by Trump and MAGA Republican politicians to cast doubt on the legitimate and strong Fulton County election interference case by attacking the prosecutor. It's an effort that takes advantage of every avenue of government power to which Trump's allies have access. Their goal, delay accountability for Trump's alleged attempt to illegally overturn a presidential election.'"
"This strikes me very close to my heart because I feel like this is one of the first times I have seen people standing up for you on this point," the MSNBC host emphasized. "I wanted to ask how it strikes you. Do you agree with their assessment of what's going on?"
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"Let's start with the federal government and Jim Jordan," Willis replied.
"Jim Jordan has time after time after time attacked my office with no legitimate purpose. Anyone who knows Jim Jordan's history knows that he only has the purpose of trying to interfere in a criminal investigation. He has now turned his tricks to he's going to looking at grant programs, which I invite him to do, and we have complied with his subpoenas. But yet, he continues his attacks to try to interfere in a criminal investigation. All while his jurisdiction has one of the worst crime rates, has poverty issues, and not one time has he used his position to try to investigate people who are attacking me, and attacking others legitimately doing their jobs — making him illegitimate in his position, and it's disgusting."
Willis continued, "I bring that up at the federal level, because now at the state level, they've decided to follow this clown's lead. And they want to now try to interfere in an investigation, and it's not legitimate either. So, it shall fail, and it's not going to go anywhere. But they are trying to attack me at every level. As you know, today is an exciting day for me because i'm on a ballot tomorrow. I have a Democratic challenger, and I plan to win, and win big tomorrow."
"But I also have a Republican challenger coming up in November, who's unqualified, been practicing law for less than four years, has never practiced criminal law, but has already got PACs supporting her, already has the national Republican party, as well as the local Republican party supporting her," Willis noted. "And so I am thankful to those three Democrats who stood up for what is right."
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However, the prosecutor emphasized, "I am at a point where I need Fulton County voters to get out and vote. I need people around the country to support me big and small, to say that we are going to be a country that still believes in the rule of law. We are not going to allow people to be attacked while they do their job. Having prosecutors that are free from interference, and are allowed to just look at cases, look at the facts, and if people broke the law, to bring charges, has to go on for us to live in a free society. The sad part, though, for all of them, Ms. Maddow, is it doesn't matter how many times they attack me, I am not going to be broken, and I am still going to be standing here doing my job, lawfully."
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