As Bonchie wrote earlier, Emily Kohrs, foreperson of the Fulton County, GA special grand jury formed to investigate potential election crimes by Donald Trump and his associates, started a media blitz Tuesday night and immediately destroyed the credibility of the body, likely tainting any indictments that might occur as a result of their investigation.
Now, Robert Costa of CBS News is reporting that “lawyers close to several GOP witnesses” for the grand jury “are preparing to move to quash any possible indictments…based on the public statements by the forewoman of the special grand jury.”
News: CBS News has learned that lawyers close to several GOP witnesses in Fulton Co. investigation are preparing to move to quash any possible indictments by DA based on the public statements by the forewoman of the special grand jury, per two people familiar with the discussions
— Robert Costa (@costareports) February 22, 2023
Now, why CBS News would learn this before a more conservative site is anyone’s guess, but it’s not a surprising turn of events. Lisa Rubin, attorney and MSNBC legal analyst notes, Georgia special grand juries are investigative and not charging bodies, and that Georgia law favors disclosure of state grand jury proceedings, so any motion to quash an indictment isn’t likely to succeed. But still, Kohrs’ comments are definitely not a good look for the Fulton County DA’s office and won’t play well to a jury.
These efforts are likely going to fail, but this is still a distraction that will burden the Fulton County DA’s office.
Even if the motions fail, I expect the foreperson’s comments to be used frequently by the defense, including at trial, to allege unfairness and bias. https://t.co/X1qlGzxubr
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) February 22, 2023
Anderson Cooper admitted that Kohrs’ interviews are “a prosecutor’s nightmare.” Wonder who green-lit her appearance there, and what Cooper had to say behind the scenes in his network’s complicity in possibly tanking an indictment of the man they love to hate?
CNN’s reaction to the foreperson of the Grand Jury that investigated Donald Trump in Georgia making her rounds on cable news:
“Why this person is talking on TV, I do not understand”
“I guarantee you prosecutors are wincing… It’s a prosecutor’s nightmare” pic.twitter.com/DsQK0g60h2
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) February 22, 2023
In addition to likely seeking to present the text of Kohrs’ comments to any possible jury, a smart defense attorney would play video from her interviews. Kohrs looks and sounds unhinged. The most charitable take was from MSNBC’s Rubin, who remarked on Kohrs’ lack of a poker face:
“And yes, I’d bet many of you would clean her out in poker, given her face’s propensity to say what her mouth would not.”
Many on social media commenters were of the opinion that Kohrs’ place on the “hot/crazy” scale was far to the “crazy” side; I tweeted that she looked like the type that had a voodoo doll of the popular girl from high school she was still obsessed with. Soon after, a Pinterest account allegedly belonging to Kohrs was located and was filled with pins about witchcraft and the occult.
BREAKING: The Pinterest of that Trump Grand Juror has been found
And it is worse than you thought, lads
h/t @SomeB1tchIKnow pic.twitter.com/W0io4jHyi4
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 22, 2023
That also will not go over well in the Bible belt.
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