Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has finally broken her silence with CNN. Willis insisted that she has done nothing wrong while declaring that “the train is coming” for Donald Trump. On this occasion, CNN can be excused for not having an opposing view. Willis circa 2020 denounced Willis circa 2024.
Willis told a CNN reporter “I don’t feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed. I guess my greatest crime is I had a relationship with a man, that’s not something I find embarrassing in any way. And I know that I have not done anything that’s illegal.”
The most obvious person to interview in rebuttal of that statement is Willis’s 2020 self. After all, she repeatedly declared that she would not have any romantic relationship with those in her office.
Willis ran against her former boss Paul Howard, who was embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal involving his relationship with women in his office.
Willis offered both experience and ethical leadership, including pledging repeatedly that “I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me.”
When confronted with this repeated campaign promise on the stand, Willis came up with a perfectly bizarre spin about Nathan Wade being literally “special” as a special prosecutor. While she hired him, supervised him, and controlled his continued employment with the office, she tried to suggest that he was not really part of the office in the same sense.
Willis notably stressed that she did nothing “illegal.” She did not address whether she acted unethically. The court itself denounced her for unprofessional conduct in this controversy, including her speech at a church suggesting that racism was behind these allegations.
Moreover, it may be too early to tell if she is entirely free of criminal allegations. Many believe that both she and Wade gave knowingly false or misleading testimony. That is a problem not just for them as individuals but for the office in this case.
Willis and Wade were both prosecuting people for the very same conduct of filing false statements with courts and making false statements. The two lawyers testified in tandem but only one was disqualified.
While the Court casts doubt on Wade’s testimony on the relationship, it ignored that Willis effectively ratified those claims in her own testimony.
Putting aside the pledge of a train coming for Trump, there is the problem that there are usually two tracks and another train may be coming for Willis as the state (and potentially the bar) looks into these allegations.
I lived in Atlanta in the 1970’s. It was a time of great transition, from the old South, to the new South — a town where the black community could get ahead, and did. Some of the many black leaders of the era were of course MLK, Jr., but let’s not forget Andrew Young and John Lewis.
What I would have loved to see is Andrew Young, now age 92, publicly ‘scold’ this new generation of blacks in leadership positions exemplified by Ms. Fani Willis.
She didn’t say anything about not dating anyone that she would work under. She was just looking for a man that she could look up to as she slipped a dollar under the waist of his jockey shorts. Tips are thankfully accepted for the Fani pole dance.
Here’s a question for all the Fani fan boys–why didn’t Fani, on the spot, fire Nathan Wade when the news of his perjury in the divorce case get out?
Why do powerful Democrats like Fani Willis find the persecution of Donald Trump to be such a powerful aphrodisiac?
Everyone note that Turley thinks giving false testimony is wrong. Because he will sing a different tune when Trump lies under oath.
Hasn’t happened so far, has it!
Willis pursuing a romantic relationship is not the issue. It is Willis knowingly hiring a prosecutor that had zero experience in federal racketeering law and paying him exorbitant lawyering fees with which she then gained from the proceeds. Then perjured herself under oath. DEI at its finest
Standard procedure in government jobs
Willis’ “choice to pursue a romantic relationship with someone working for her was absolutely a poor one, but *it was not a choice that directly affected the case*.” (emphasis added)
Notice what’s missing from that completely unwarranted conclusion:
The fact that Willis was paying her lover, Wade, *by the hour*.
That means Willis had an incentive to create *artificial* work product (depositions, investigations, interviews, et al.) — work product designed *not* to serve the law and justice. But work product to line her lover’s pockets.
Artificial work product directly burdens the defendant — and corrupts the entire case. If that is not the appearance of impropriety, then there is no such thing. Her choices and actions caused that appearance of impropriety. For that reason alone, she (and her entire office) should have been thrown off the case.
One might reply: Is there any evidence that Willis created artificial work product? Who knows. And that “who knows” is everything.
Is the persecution of their most hated political opponent the Democrats’ version of revenge porn?
Sums up Democrat injustice and law fare:
“The 1/6 political prosecutions have resulted in a 100% conviction rate. Over 1352 people have been charged.
ANFTIFA/BLM riots, felonies were reduced to misdemeanors and 2,000 people’s charges were dropped.
Bernie Madoff 64 billion dollar fraud, 10 million bond.
Trump 0 fraud, 456 million dollar bond.
Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch ignored congressional subpoenas, nothing happened. Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro ignored congressional subpoenas and they are facing jail time. (*NAVARRO is IN PRISON)
Torch a pro-life center, nothing happens.
Pray outside of an abortion clinic face 11 years in prison.
Report for the NYT on 1/6, no charges.
Report for The Blaze on 1/6, get perp walked in leg irons.
When will enough be enough? Tyranny on steroids.”
@DefiyantlyFree
10:28 PM · Mar 24, 2024
#Truth! #WakeUpAmerica before it’s you!
Let’s assume that Willis knew the case was a giant howl at the wind. That nothing substantive would ever come of these putative RICO charges other than bogging down the Republican nominee for President. Why not hire your seemingly unqualified lover (as a RICO attorney and who has never tried a RICO case), and bilk the taxpayers of ¾ of a million dollars? All of this brouhaha about when they started dating or who slept at who’s home or who reimbursed who for what camouflages the real intent. To graft ¾ of a million dollars for a case that won’t succeed.
Something for those on the left to chew on.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/2933803/the-racial-realignment-is-a-humiliation-for-white-liberals/
If you live in a big city controlled by liberal Democrats, move out within 18 months. It will inevitably descend into chaos and violence and become the next Oakland or San Francisco. Your quality of life will go into the toilet. Move to a red area of a red state, or if you can’t manage that, a red area of a purple state. But when you get there don’t continue to vote Democrat. Better to stay and wallow in misery than impose that misery on the only remaining places in America that are reasonably livable.
“If you live in a big city controlled by liberal Democrats, stay where you are.”
FTFY, love Red Staters.
“If you live in a big city controlled “
Oldman, you hit the nail on the head. Some don’t learn. Too many move from a blue state because they wish more freedom and come to a red state only to promote the progressive causes they ran away from.
OldManFromKS,
Check this out, The Great Divorce: 3.7 Million Have Fled Counties That Voted For Biden
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/03/25/the-great-divorce-3-7-million-have-fled-counties-that-voted-for-biden-since-2020/