“Numerous signs” Fani Willis is set to criminally indict Donald Trump and DOZEN of his allies
Ever since Donald Trump was indicted and arrested in Manhattan, we’ve all been waiting for the other proverbial shoes to drop. Even though Trump was hit with thirty-four felony charges in Manhattan, they were lower level white collar felonies. He’s likely to face far more serious criminal charges from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and from DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith. But when? And just how big?
We’ve been seeing plenty of news out of the DOJ case this past week. The courts have finally cleared everyone from Mike Pence to Mark Meadows to testify, and with the appeals process just about exhausted, it’s a matter of time before these witnesses testify, and Smith brings his Trump indictments. But even though that case is getting close, there’s no real sense of what the DOJ’s intended timeframe for indictment is.
Then there’s the Fulton County case, where DA Fani Willis has completed her special grand jury probe, and at this point is really just waiting for regular grand jury time to finally become available so she can go through the formality of bringing her indictments. All along we’d been getting semi-regular updates in the media about this case. But once the Manhattan case came front and center, the Fulton County case suddenly went very quiet.
That’s now apparently changed. On Saturday the New York Times published a lengthy article which claims there are “numerous signs” that Willis will not only indict Trump, but also indict more than a dozen of his allies. The Times says this comes after more than twenty people had been notified that they were criminal targets in this probe.
As for the timing of the Fulton County indictments, the New York Times is being so oddly specific that it makes you wonder if Willis herself may have guided the Times in this direction: “If Ms. Willis chooses to seek indictments in the Georgia case, she may do so after a new grand jury begins its work in the second week of May, though nothing is set in stone. Typically, presenting such cases to a regular grand jury is a short process that takes a day or two.”
So is the NY Times merely using the publicly available grand jury calendar to speculate that the indictment will come the second week of May? Or is this Fani Willis’ way of guiding us all to when the indictment is coming? If so, Donald Trump would be just five weeks away from being indicted and arrested again – and this time he’d be the far from the only one.
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report