Jeffrey Toobin warns Fani Willis' case against Trump is 'going nowhere'
Jeffrey Toobin, a former CNN legal analyst, returned to the network on Friday and argued that the Georgia case against Donald Trump was "going nowhere," and said it had been a "very good day for Donald Trump."
Toobin, a former federal prosecutor, and Gwen Keyes, a former district attorney in DeKalb County, Georgia, joined CNN's Elie Honig and Anderson Cooper on Friday to discuss the election interference case against Trump in Georgia.
"Today was a very good day for Donald Trump," Toobin said during his media appearance. "This case is going nowhere."
"In the extremely unlikely event that this somehow staggers to trial in August or in the fall. Think about this: There‘s another racketeering case in Georgia where jury selection, not the trial. Jury selection has taken a year. This case is never going to trial before the election," he continued. "It's an embarrassment, all of this. Fani Willis has hung on, but this case is going nowhere very quickly."
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Gwen Keyes, a former district attorney in DeKalb County, Georgia, said she respectfully disagreed with Toobin.
"I do think that there is enough evidence to go forward. I think that particularly the timing in this case, while we’ve had one racketeering case that has taken a long time to go to a jury, that’s an anomaly. In my 17 years as a state prosecutor. I’ve never seen it take 10 or 12 months to get a jury. And in the last RICO case that I’m aware of D.A. Willis taking to trial – with 12 defendants – she was able to get a jury in about four weeks. So, I think that’s the precedent that we should be looking at," Keyes said.
A Georgia judge ruled on Friday that Willis must either step