The forewoman on a Georgia jury, while making rounds with the media last night, very possibly tanked the Trump prosecution.

This particular case was targeting President Trump for his call to Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. 

A focal point of the Atlanta inquiry is a call that Mr. Trump made on Jan. 2, 2021, to Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, in which he pressed Mr. Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to recalculate the results and “find” 11,780 votes, or enough to overturn his loss in the state.

What the prosecution wanted and wants is for Trump to be indicted for supposedly trying to force votes to be “found” or “changed,” but also for potentially putting bogus electors in place. Yet, before indictments are finalized, up pops giggly Emily Kohrs. 

There’s a VERY BIG problem with Emily’s giggly media appearances yesterday. She’s out on very thin ice with what she says about the process and witnesses. Needless to say, there are a great number of people who aren’t amused by this. 

“Weird. Does anyone recall the foreman of a grand jury, particularly in a consequential case, doing a media tour BEFORE any indictments are made?!? Like, who IS this woman??,” wrote political commentator David Axelrod on Twitter.

“I am deeply troubled by the fact that this much disclosure is going on in this process and I think it has legal ramifications.. I would not be surprised if we see a judge come in and admonish the remainder of the special grand jury…” pic.twitter.com/YqJINyeMNn

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 22, 2023

I’m honestly surprised the judge didn’t tell the grand jury to keep their mouths shut until the proceedings were completely and utterly finished. Furthermore, I was VERY surprised to read the following in the AP News report:

As the proceedings played out, one of her fellow jurors brought the newspaper every day and pointed out stories about the investigation. Prosecutors, Kohrs said, told jurors they could consume news coverage related to the case but urged them to keep an open mind.

Kohrs said she mostly avoided stories related to the proceedings to avoid forming an opinion.

“I didn’t want to characterize anyone before they walked in the room,” she said. “I felt they all deserved an impartial listener.”

Excuse me??!! Jurors were essentially encourage to read the news and if there was information regarding the case reported therein, all they needed to do was “keep an open mind?” ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! 

It doesn’t matter the case, the jury needs to be held to a high standard so they can render as an impartial ruling as possible. Telling them it’s totally fine to read the news and discuss it and then hope the jury stays objective is ludicrous!

After months of secrecy, a foreperson for the Georgia special grand jury looking into former President Trump’s efforts in trying to overturn the 2020 election shared an update on the investigation.

The foreperson speaks to @ReporterBlayne in a TV exclusive interview. pic.twitter.com/Xm8BiARo52

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) February 22, 2023

Emily’s giggly demeanor definitely doesn’t help the credibility of her, the jury as a whole, nor the prosecution team. Instead, with all her little smirks, teases, and skating on very thin ice with her assertions, she looks like a grifter trying to grab 15 minutes of fame. 

As is asked over at Red State, giggly Emily’s statement that 12 indictments are on the way raises some questions. Notably, did what happen in Georgia in 2020 REALLY rise to such a level that TWELVE people are going to be indicted?? What did we miss? 

This woman may forever poison prosecuting Trump in Georgia. I hope someone tells her to go home and zip her lips. She is a disaster! https://t.co/MSeMQDJJb5

— John W. Dean (@JohnWDean) February 22, 2023

The grand jury, of which has Giggly Emily as the foreperson, can only make recommendations to the prosecutors. It’s then, according to Georgia law, up to the prosecutor to bring it to a regular grand jury to secure indictments. If a regular grand jury isn’t already in place, one would have to presume that Emily Kohr’s media blitz has tainted the jury pool. 

Portions of the initial grand jury report were released last week per orders by the judge. Said report says that supposedly some witnesses may have lied under oath, and recommended indictments for perjury. But again, the investigation and indictments were still pending when Emily started her media rounds yesterday. 

Media rounds that made even the most liberal commentators who hate Donald Trump with a passion highly uncomfortable. 

“Mark my words, Donald Trump’s team is going to make a motion, if there’s an indictment, to dismiss that indictment based on grand jury impropriety. She’s not supposed to be talking about anything, really. But she’s really not supposed to be talking about the deliberations. She’s talking about what specific witnesses they saw, what the grand jury thought of them. She says some of them we found credible, some we found funny. I don’t know why that’s relevant, but she’s been saying we found this guy funny or interesting. I think she’s potentially crossing a line here. It’s gonna be a real problem for prosecutors,” Honig continued.

Given this, would it really surprise anyone that the Trump team is already preparing motions? In fact, any witness mentioned by Emily should have had their attorneys on the phone about this. What Emily did was highly improper and, in my opinion, completely tainted the case. However, given the political law fare involved in this case and the likelihood that the grand jury was presented with cherry picked information, the Fulton County DA and the judges involved could persist. 

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