‘Unbelievable’: DA and Presiding Judge Both Crack Jokes As Trump Is Indicted in Georgia

Indicting a former president of the United States is serious business, or so the left says after every new charge against 👤Donald Trump.

That, of course, is why the judge and district attorney in the 2024 Republican front-runner’s latest round of charges are having a good laugh about it.

Sound contradictory to you? Not to Judge Robert McBurney and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who used this week’s indictment to try out their comedy chops.

On Monday, Trump and 18 associates were charged over their efforts to challenge the outcome of the 2020 presidential race in Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The indictment — like any Trump indictment as the 2024 campaign season ramps up — was hardly unexpected. What was unexpected was prosecutors and judges making light of the situation.

Take McBurney, who was cracking wise with journalists after Monday’s indictment became public.

“That’s it,” he said after the proceedings had come to their official conclusion. Then, he quipped, “Was it all you hoped it would be?”

As if they needed to prove they were taking this just as seriously as the judge was, the journalists