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Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought the election case against Trump, faces a rare Republican challenger

ATLANTA (AP) – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Democratic Georgia prosecutor who brought the case allegations against former President Donald Trump amid efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, he faces a rare challenger from the Republican Party in his bid for re-election in the state’s most populous county.
Courtney Kramer, a lawyer who interned in the White House counsel’s office under Trump, said she wants to make sure the office is transparent and accountable. But Willis who he easily fended off the challenge from the left in the May Democratic primary told the Associated Press she was confident she would win.
“He’s going to lose, and he’s going to lose badly,” Willis said of Kramer. Willis said voters should give her an extra 4 years due to her record in office, including the pre-indictment diversion program she began and a program in schools encouraging students to decide on alternatives to gangs and crime, in addition to reducing the variety of homicides and the backlog of unindicted cases.
Fulton County, home to about 11% of the state’s electorate, is a Democratic stronghold where no Republican has even run for district attorney since 2000. Willis has raised $2.1 million in comparison with Kramer’s $278,000 and is the clear favorite.
Kramer, 31, who grew up in Fulton County and knows the political landscape, has visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, posted photos of herself on Instagram with a who’s who of MAGA celebrities and claims to be a lot of his staunchest allies former president in Georgia as friends. But she says that shouldn’t stop anyone – even Democrats – from voting for her.
Her mantra during the campaign was: “It’s not about right versus left, it’s about good versus evil.”
Willis, 53, became district attorney in January 2021 and rose to national prominence a month later when she announced that it’s investigating whether Trump and others broke any laws in attempting to offset a narrow 2020 presidential election loss in the state to Democrat Joe Biden. In August 2023, she received a sweeping racketeering indictment against Trump and 18 others.
She worked for 17 years in the office she now runs under her predecessor, Paul Howard, after which worked as a justice of the peace and as a defense attorney. She defeated Howard w fierce Democratic primary fight in 2020
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She would love to serve three terms as district attorney after which begin teaching at her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C., she told the AP. She established a domestic violence enforcement division and said that if elected to a second term, she plans to concentrate on creating more district resources for victims of those crimes.
Trump’s cause has gained fans amongst Democrats across the country, making it a goal for the former president and his allies. She is criticized by friends and foes alike for… romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, hired a special prosecutor lead the case. The presiding judge scolded her for her “massive lapses in judgment.” AND pre-trial appeal With judge’s ruling enabling her to proceed her prosecution successfully stopped himfrustrating some Democrats who had hoped the case against the Republican presidential nominee would go to trial before the general election.
Kramer said when she entered the race for the position of district attorney in March, when Trump’s indictment prompted her to run, accusing Willis of pursuing the case for private political gain. While some speculate that Kramer intends to dismiss the case, she has said she would recuse herself if elected because she served in the Trump White House and worked with two other defendants, attorney Ray Smith and former state Republican Party chairman David Shafer.
Some progressive Democrats and advocates are irritated by Willis’ tough-on-crime approach, saying she is abusing gang and racketeering laws by unnecessarily complicating cases as a way to obtain higher penalties. A famous example is accusation of rapper Young Thug and others. The prosecutor’s case dragged on for nearly a yr, with dozens of witnesses still to be called, and a judge recently suggested that the prosecutor’s office had demonstrated “really poor legal service.”
Kramer stated that she would dismiss the case, arguing that it was mismanaged and a waste of resources.
Willis, known for insurrection in the face of threat AND fiery reactions to criticsshe declined to debate specific cases but dismissed Kramer’s criticism, calling her opponent ignorant and “totally unqualified.”
“She has never handled any case. She never practiced criminal law,” Willis said. “She’s just a right-wing politician trying to play right-wing politics.”
Kramer was extremely lively in Republican political organizations. In December 2020, she became a lawyer and helped with Trump’s election criticism. She said her law practice has focused on civil litigation over the past few years.
While admitting that she had no law enforcement or management experience, she stated that she had good decision-making and leadership skills. She said she would ensure transparency of the office’s funds and work to wrap up the cases quickly. When asked several times about specific policies and goals, she stated that she would must wait until she took office before making a decision.
Kramer criticized Willis, like many others, for overcrowding at the Fulton County Main Jail, saying people were languishing there while their cases went uncharged, and in addition said violent crimes had increased under Willis.
But since Willis took office, most violent crime has declined in the largest cities under her jurisdiction. According to police data, there have been 157 homicides in Atlanta in 2020, up from 135 last yr, and this yr’s numbers are 13% lower than last yr. Robberies and aggravated assaults have also fallen, and rapes have been steadily declining but have increased this yr.
Fulton County’s fundamental jail stays suffering from problemsbut overcrowding in the county system has improved. Three days before Trump was impeached, 3,571 people were in county jails and 1,683, or 47%, had not been indicted. As of Friday, 2,584 people were in custody, of whom 638, or 25%, had not been charged.
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Donald Trump is facing the unprecedented opposition of loyalists over the donation of “Flying Palace” from Qatar

Donald Trump, whose loyalists got stuck with him for good and bad times, could finally go too far, accepting the “great gesture” of the luxury runny nose jet.
Some of the most famous supporters of the president, including web media data, corresponding to Ben Shapiro and Laura Loomer, broke with Trump in relation to an aircraft price $ 400 million from the royal family of Qatar, the regime critics claims that he is supporting terror and sanctioned the murder of American residents.

“I hope it’s not true,” loom he said Politico on Monday. “If the initial reports are actual, I think it’s disturbing.”
“Qatar is not our friend,” she said, adding that she believes that America under Trump has develop into too cozy with oil -rich country from Western Asia.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a Republican, said that the jet doesn’t pass the test or smell.
“There are only many decisions regarding foreign policy and I think people will think that this can affect the decision-making process,” said Paul.
The president doesn’t see what this confusion is about. When asked about it on Monday during the signing ceremony of the White House, Trump laughed at the reporter from ABC News, who asked the query.
“You should be ashamed, he asks this question,” said Trump. “They give us a free jet. I could say” no “, no, I want to pay you a billion, $ 400 million or whatever it is. Or I can say “Thank you very much”.
Trump insisted that the jet wouldn’t be a present for him, but for the US Department of Defense. According to ABC NewsThe royal family of Qatar offered Jumbo Jumbo Jumbo a jet who replaced Air Force One, which could be handed over to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation for its use after leaving the office.
For many, bribery stinks. Trump blamed the American defense contractor for “as long as to build new air force.”
“I think it’s a great gesture of runny nose,” he said. “I appreciate it very much. I would never be one to reject such an offer.”
Perhaps no commentator was harder Under the decision of Trump to simply accept a nose jet than the founder of Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, who characterised the president’s behavior as “suspicious”, saying that “undermines his program and credibility.”
“Even if it is not a crime, it’s a bad optics,” Shapiro said, adding that movement is a “political poison.”
He noticed that the indignation that will follow if Hunter and Joe Biden were involved as a substitute of Trumps: “Conservatives would shout,” said Shapiro.
CNN media analyst, Brian Stoter Reported The controversy regarding the jet is the best schism between Trump and his supporters during the second term of the president.
“This is the biggest break I saw in the first four months of Trump’s return to the office between his pro-Trump Propaganda Machine, those professional stars that always support him, and the president,” said Stoter on Tuesday.
Loomer said that she is nice for the president who doesn’t need to charge taxpayers at the expense of a brand new air force.
“But this will complicate the foreign policy regarding the appointment of the Muslim fraction as a terrorist organization, which was promised and not in the first Trump administration,” she said. “This is a kind of elephant in a room when Trump goes to the Middle East.”
But do personalities like Loomer and Shapiro say on behalf of the magician? The indignation of the every day supporter of Trump has not yet manifested.
“Not so that they are the owners of Donald just because they give him Boeing” wrote One Trump fan on X. “Let a man earn in a nice gesture.”
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The White House responds to the rumors of the pardon of Trump Derek Chauvin among the renovated connection Marjorie Taylor Greene

Despite the earlier releases of President Donald Trump and the White Federal House of Pardoning for Derek Chaubin, a former police officer in Minneapolis sentenced to the murder of George Floyd, rumors with potential pardon were renovated.
When this month this month is approaching the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s murder, Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz and Minneapolis officials indicated that they were preparing for the possibility of presidential pardon for Chauvin and later anxieties in the city.
“I think we are prepared for it. Thanks to this presidency, it looks like it could be something they would do” – according to reporters, the Governor Walz recently told journalists Minnesota Star Tribune.
Walz, who was against Trump as the vp of Kamali Harris in the 2024 election, said that his office received “without an indication” whether the White House would give a pardon to Chauvin, who was convicted Up to 21 years after admitting federal allegations for violating Floyd and a youngster in a separate incident. Chauvin was too convicted Up to 22.5 years in prison for the second -cycle murder at the state level.
“If Donald Trump exercises his constitutional law, whether I agree-and I definitely disagree with him-if it seems pardon, we will simply transfer Derek Chauvin to take his 22 and a half years in prison in Minnesota,” Walz said.
Commissioner for the Security of the Community Minneapolis Todick Barnette admitted that city officials heard rumors about potential pardon; Similarly, nonetheless, he emphasized: “Derek Chauvin would remain behind bars, having a state sentence, even if his federal allegations are pardoned.”
He said in an announcement that “there is no reliable intelligence about any pardon or planned interference here in Minneapolis.”
Discussions about Trump potentially pardoning chauvins have been consistent since he returned to the White House in January. Conservatives are continually calling the president to pardon the disgraced officer. Republican US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene renovated the public campaign to pardon Chauvin on Wednesday, writing On X: “I definitely support the pardon of Derek Chauvin and release from prison.”

The conservative fire brand also falsely claimed that Floyd “died of drug overdose”, despite two medical examinations, determining that he died by murder. Chauvin especially held his knee around Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes until Floyd’s death, despite the multiple black man “I can’t breathe”.
In March, the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt told journalists about the possible forgiveness: “The president was asked and answered this question. He said that he was not considering it at that time.”

The president undertaking such an motion could be in the position he took in 2020 as a president when Floyd was murdered.
“It’s a terrible thing,” Trump he said In the White House in 2020, “we all saw what we saw. It’s hard to come up with something other than what we saw. It should never happen.”
The Prosecutor General in Minnesota Keith Ellison, who managed the prosecution of the State Criminal Case Chauvin, said in an announcement that President Trump has no right to forgive the state belief of Chauvin, “and” the only possible goal could be to express even greater disrespect for George Floyd.
He said clearly: “Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in front of the whole world.”
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore signs 170 bills to the right

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore It takes the state to latest heights After signing 170 bills in state law, it informs CBS News Baltimore.
Bills, signed on May 13, relate to various topics, from the range of abortion to reckless driving.
The subsidy program for public health abortion (HB 930) concerns the financing of reproductive healthcare, establishing a fund coping with improving access to abortion take care of the inhabitants of Maryland, specializing in people without advanced financial resources.
The first black state governor also signed the Chesapeake Bay Legacy Act (HB 506), which is targeted on ways to improve popular water so as to increase economic growth in the region.
After the Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced concern about Trump’s administration plans for exceeding budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), Moore signed provisions that can support farmers in the development of more efficient methods of agriculture as well as to improving oyster aquaculture.
Senate Bill 590, Sergeant Patrick KEPP, corrects the regulations regarding Maryland motorized vehicles to strengthen penalties for a reckless and aggressive driving. Named in honor of a police officer of Montgomery, who was paralyzed from impact by a reckless driver, the Act adapts the system of status of the driver’s points, increasing to two points for neglected driving of the vehicle and 6 points for the transition by 30 km / h or greater than limiting speed.
According to the latest law, aggressive driving might be marked as behaviors, comparable to not compliance with traffic control devices, a dangerous passage and never being lifted by pedestrians.
The state account 901 is directed to the environment by increasing the recycling speed, reduced waste and emphasize the use of a sustainable packaging. Manufacturers will now be obliged to submit a five -year plan by July 2028, which identifies the recycling and recycling content goals.
Other bills are intended for such issues as real estate, public security, medical debt and wild nature.
Viewers consider that signing bills increases the light of Moore’s headlights in the Democratic Party as a possible presidential candidate in 2028.
The democratic strategist of Jon Reinish called Moore “one of the most fresh faces of the party, the most dynamic leaders”, but according to Moore, whose name He was once mentioned As a possible colleague from the former vice chairman of Kamali Harris on a democratic ticket in 2024, he told co -hosts ABC that there have been no plans to search for an oval office.
“I’m not running,” said Moore. “I am now very excited about work that is now happening in the state of Maryland.”
However, some democratic analysts feel movements that he does in another way.
“He does not do much to discourage this speculation at 2028 … his schedule was contrary to his message,” said the democratic strategist with Maryland Len Foxwell.
Moore recently provided the start address of the Lincoln University, HBCU in Pennsylvania, in addition to the major address of democracy at the Brennan Center Awards in New York.
Reinish said people should give attention to Moore.
“It happens in well-known television programs. It goes to the early states,” said Reinish. “I think that most people at this stage would be a cursory denial. But again look at what they do, not what they say.”
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