The Donald is hoppin' mad
Accuses DA of running ‘Kangaroo Court’
Former President Donald Trump accused Atlanta’s district attorney of running a “Kangaroo Court” Wednesday after a series of media appearances by the forewoman of the special grand jury that probed his actions just after the 2020 election.
Trump, 76, lashed out after Emily Kohrs, the head of the panel convened by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, spoke to The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC on Tuesday to tease the possibility that the 45th president would be indicted and saying she wished Trump had been put under oath.
“This Georgia case is ridiculous, a strictly political continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Now you have an extremely energetic young woman, the (get this!) ‘foreperson’ of the Racist D.A.’s Special Grand Jury, going around and doing a Media Tour revealing, incredibly, the Grand Jury’s inner workings & thoughts.
“This is not JUSTICE, this is an illegal Kangaroo Court. Atlanta is leading the Nation in Murder and other Violent Crimes. All I did is make TWO PERFECT PHONE CALLS!!!” Trump added, referring to post-election conversations with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that sparked the investigation.
Predicts indictments
Kohrs was asked Tuesday by MSNBC if she wanted to hear Trump testify.
“I kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in,” answered Kohrs, 30. “And so I thought it’d be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump, of me looking at him and being like, ‘Do you solemnly swear . . .’ And me getting to swear him in.”
Kohrs also said that she believes more than a dozen people will be indicted by Willis, including figures “you would recognize.”
Asked on MSNBC if Trump was on the list, she said: “I don’t think that there are any giant plot twists coming.”
She told CNN: “I really don’t want to share something that the judge made a conscious decision not to share. I will tell you that it was a process where we heard his name a lot . . . and we definitely discussed him a lot.”
Kohrs’ statements have left legal commentators scratching their heads, with CNN analyst Elie Honig, a former US attorney, calling her “a prosecutor’s nightmare” Tuesday.
“This is a horrible idea. And I guarantee you that prosecutors are wincing,” he told host Anderson Cooper.
Cooper marveled at Kohrs’ apparent “eagerness” to be in the limelight and discuss the secret deliberations of a grand jury.
“This is a very serious prospect here,” Honig responded.
The commentator added that Trump’s legal team will likely use Kohrs’ statements to dismiss any indictment on the grounds of “grand jury impropriety.”