Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the sprawling racketeering case against Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants in Georgia, said Tuesday that she expects the trial to conclude by early 2025 with proceedings likely to be underway during the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election, The Washington Post reports. “I believe in that case there will be a trial. I believe the trial will take many months. And I don’t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025,” Willis said during The Washington Post Live's Global Women's Summit.
A spokesman for Rudy Giuliani, who is a defendant in the case, said Willis' prediction proves the case is politically motivated to interfere with Trump's re-election bid. Though she declined to comment on Trump or his co-defendants specifically, she said the election cycle has no bearing on her offices' decisions on case timelines. “That does not go into the calculus. What goes into the calculus is: This is the law. These are the facts. And the facts show you violated the law. Then charges are brought,” she said.
