Fulton County DA urges staff not to respond to Trump campaign ad

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has responded to a recent attack ad from former President Donald Trump, writing in an internal memo sent to staff urging them not to respond and reminding them that "we have a job to do," according to a copy of the memo obtained by ABC News.

"We have no personal feelings against those we investigate or prosecute and we should not express any," Willis wrote in the memo on Wednesday. "This is business, it will never be personal."

The memo came in response, Willis wrote, to an attack ad taken out by Donald Trump to run in the Atlanta area to run through Sunday. In the memo, Willis told her staff not to "comment in anyway on the ad or the negativity that may be expressed against me, your colleagues, this office in the coming days, weeks or months."

"In this office, we prosecute based on the facts and the law. This law is non-partisan. You should feel no need to defend me," she wrote. "I am not concerned with the calls, emails, or ads and you should not concern yourself with them." The Trump Campaign recently released an ad which attacked Willis with a number of unproven or exaggerated allegations.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fulton-county-da-urges-staff-respond-trump-campaign/story?id=102158213

[kabi knit]

1. These Worthy Words By Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

Absolutely Deserve Repetition:

"In this office, we prosecute based on the facts and the law. This law is non-partisan. You should feel no need to defend me," she wrote. "I am not concerned with the calls, emails, or ads and you should not concern yourself with them."

[MissMillie]

2. Yeah, this should be a no-brainer

He's baiting them.

[Walleye]

3. "Unproven or exaggerated allegations?" Slander and lies would be more accurate

They write about something like this as if it were another campaign tactic. This is obstruction of justice. Intimidating government officials. It’s not a campaign tactic

[orangecrush]

4. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

5. I was actually suprised they even included the descriptive terms that they did

Normally they wouldn't have characterized them at all and let them stand as accurate, not bothering to fact check.

Baby steps.

[Novara]

6. He's attempting to taint the jury pool.

He needs to be arraigned soon and conditions of his release need to be explicit - no social media, period, no ads in newspapers, no editorials (as if he could write), no contact with the public about this case or any Georgia official or any of his co-conspirators. Period.

Then throw him in jail when he violates it, because he will violate it.

Willis needs to hurry up and indict him before he poisons the jury pool more. He's getting away with it now.

[gab13by13]

7. I have no problem with the speed of Willis,

She began investigating Trump in March of 2021. She appears to be doing a RICO prosecution, a conspiracy involving over a dozen perps. By next week those perps will be scrambling for attorneys.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. Wont happen. The Law is prepared for that, not the first attempt.

Follow the facts…scariest words a criminal ever heard.

Calm and competency isn’t what media wants to publish though, ask the current president about that.

I see the Law as the bottom part of an iceberg, all the visible turbulence above the water line is irrelevant to the Law.

[marble falls]

8. Fani Willis has got this. We are not them.

[Joinfortmill]

9. He's dangerous.

[dlk]

10. Willis is the consummate professional

Whoever heard of a target of a grand jury investigation running television ads against the prosecutor? Trump needs to be locked up where the sun doesn’t shine. He is a public safety threat fomenting an insurgency.

[yardwork]

11. What a contrast between that disgrace Trump and these brave public servants.

[jayschool2013]

12. Which media outlets?

Who are the owners accepting this dirty money and this odious ad? Which media outlets? They deserve to be ignored, at the very least, and sued if the ad is libelous/slanderous. Private entities can choose not to run ads, you know. They have that freedom.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Found another article that mentioned where

Trump is running a TV ad in Atlanta criticizing the DA investigating him

The new ad airing in multiple markets, including Atlanta, shows images of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Aug. 9, 2023, 4:56 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 9, 2023, 7:17 PM EDT

By Jake Traylor

(snip)

A Trump campaign aide told NBC News the one-minute political ad will air in Atlanta, New York and Washington, D.C., as well as nationally.

(snip)

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/trump-running-ad-atlanta-criticizing-da-investigating-rcna99003

All this type of thing does is eventually invite a gag order. It won't happen immediately, but it may escalate to that point.

Roger Stone tried the same thing (although more with his circus antics outside of the courthouse and on social media), and FAFO.

[jayschool2013]

16. Thanks.

[bluestarone]

15. TFG is doing the same thing he did to Carroll.

Maybe another huge lawsuit in the wind? I really pray the life is taken away from this creep!! (Naturally of course)

[republianmushroom]

17. Indict him "NOW".

Prolonging it, he will only get worst.

Lock him up.