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.
In my opinion, Willis is a brazen hypocrite and should be removed from office for her unethical conduct.
Not gonna happen in corrupt, dishonest Fulton County — which is precisely why it was chosen as the venue to bring this preposterous case.
If you have a certain demographic that can’t pass the bar exam, a basic test of law and legal principles, then you do like Washington, Oregon and Minnesota: eliminate the bar exam. If you have a certain demographic that fails to adhere to centuries-old standards of legal ethics, then you eliminate ethics as the standard of professionalism, and reduce the standard of behavior to illegality. If you are troubled by “mass incarceration,” you can’t expect a certain demographic to stop committing crimes in hugely disproportionate numbers; instead you elect D.A.s who promise to not prosecute criminals. America has given up on trying to bring its most troubling demographic up to minimal standards of behavior and competence, and instead done away with the standards.
It’s not just in the US, it is happening all over the (white) world. There is a reason every movie has interracial couples and all of western civ is being invaded. The proposals by the left since the 50s have all failed.
100%. And then the certain demographic that can’t pass the bar exam will become the sub-par lawyers representing the certain demographic that is most harmed by incompetent legal representation. It’s the Democrat way. Joe Biden famously said about R’s: “They’re gonna put y’all back in chains”….but in practice, it is a ‘Democrat thing’ to ‘keep y’all in chains on the Democrat plantation.’
TIN– your comment is excellent. Sadly, it reminds me of Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” episode where a man finds an old chest in his attic and inside a pair of glasses with the inscription, “Know Thyself”. He puts on the glasses, looks in a mirror and goes insane.
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
– Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
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The American Founders were certainly deceived.
One of the ideas behind the immigration law of the Founders, the Naturalization Act of 1790, was to avoid cultural clashes such as this.
Another was to circumvent a wholly unassimilable, oppositional, and adversarial demographic – a demographic that requires unconstitutional favor and assistance to achieve false parity.
The Founders understood the boundless import and value of natural and God-given gregariousness and homogeneity.
They also understood the value of temporarily allowing workers into the country while denying citizenship and the vote.
Who destroyed the fundamental pillar and core tenet of America—restricted immigration—and put an end to the nation’s future as the Founders imagined, designed, legislated, and knew it?
The names of the nemeses of foundational American immigration law were Karl Marx and his fellow traveler and staunch supporter, Abraham Lincoln.
Next up for final extirpation are the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in [America] anymore.”
– Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
This whole sordid affair is one big train wreck.
If the Georgia State Commission recently brought into existence by the State Legislature does its job…..it shall be blowing the whistle on Fani.
As Lawyers just love to split hairs, the splitting of Fani’s that took place by her main squeeze she can argue he was “special” and that is why she lavished him with the job, pay, perks, and side benefits.
Violating a campaign promise is not illegal.
Sharing her bed with her Man is not illegal (unless Georgia Law includes Adultery a crime these days).
But enjoying the expensive holiday trips and dining out at expensive restaurants is not either.
But the stink to this is offensive to any reasonable person.
In a legitimate Court with an honest Jury….surely one person can be found that will set the train back onto the track and clear the path for the Trump Train to proceed while ol’ Fani hustles out of town.
Perhaps she was signaling her intent by the direction the dress was facing and she knows her Bacon has been thoroughly cooked.
She has sure been an embarrassment to Fulton County, the State of Georgia, and the Country as a whole.
She’s black and female. Nearly untouchable.
and predictably incompetent.
“I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me.” Like Bill Clinton, she can say she did not date that man. Plus, any criticism of her should be attributed to racism. I’m convinced she’s pure than Caesar’s wife.
The GA. voters need to handle this elected official. She will find plenty of work because she is a pioneer in misusing local and State laws against big political figures to gain fame and cash. Her Daddy said no checks.
At this point, to discuss Fani Willis’ misconduct – which, to my admittedly non-lawyerly brain, seems the definition of “prosecutorial misconduct” – has the same value as discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. None of it matters. Fani has a D after her name. End of story. She will prevail, Trump et al will be convicted, and the beat goes on. As Kevin O’Leary pointed out, what is lacking here is adult supervision. For a legal system based to a large extent on precedent, letting Fani skate, while continuing to prosecute Trump & Co, will shatter any thin veneer of impartiality that might still exist.
And Peter Navarro sits in federal prison for a misdemeanor.
@Anni – The thing that stuck in my mind with the Kevin O’Leary interview was how often he said “this is not America”. Then you look at the border, the spending, election interference, economy, national crime, the law fare, targeting Americans. All Americans regardless of party affiliation are losing what the founding fathers and America once offered, God given Freedoms.
She is a self-entitled, angry, pushy black woman – nothing can touch her unless the political right puts up a hefty objection to all that she has done and we know that this will not happen, the rino’s in our midst have stifled what was left of our conservative movement – we can’t even find and keep an effective Speaker of the House and push back against pork, wokeness and a lethal national debt much less go after a nasty pieces of work both in Georgia and NYC.
Fanny, u should be in prison for impersonating a DA.
U should be locked up because u r the worst liar ever
U should be in jail because u r the dumbest idiot
U deserve prison because your effort to come across as an above board citizen was criminal.
U should be doing hard time so that we dont have to look at your demonic appearance again. U r ugly, not just physically; u r so pathetic while trying to impersonate a decent human being, even the devil wants nothing more to do with u.
Lock Up This Viral Piece of Vomit
freedom of speech, Big Jon–hope u don’t mind
Should be changed from DA to DS.
Double Standards.
Willis: “I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me.”
I guess he was on top.
The sheer audacity she displays in her attempts to spin away her own hypocrisy is amazing.
She is vile. I feel sick thinking about her. She is supposed to be an example of a law honoring citizen. She is a pig. Sorry pigs.
What have pigs done so wrong to deserve being compared to Ms. Willis?
Her audacity is nothing compared to the likes of most politicians – have her heard Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi – she is only doing at her level what all dems do all the time.
Maybe she’ll hire AOC as co counsel, but wait maybe President Trump should retain AOC as she states RICO is not a crime?
Excellent
My non-legal opinion and concern: If Willis should escape professional chastisement/denouncement for any of this, –just think of the message this sends to new and upcoming lawyers (especially Black ones), on how to beat/play the system (with histrionics, half-truths, and maybe outright lies).
She set back civil rights 50 years.
No, that was Obama.
Civil rights was set back MORE than 50 years, shortly after 1965, when black women began ginning out the illegitimate kids for a government check. Then, civil rights was took out in the woods and lynched when schools were forcibly integrated. That is when white people, and the blacks who could afford it, moved to the suburbs and bedroom communities to get away from the no-good blacks. So today, you have Jackson Mississipi, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Pine Bluff Arkansas, Shreveport Louisiana, Birmingham, etc. – all on a downward spiral that will not end. I have been watching the Nick Johnson youtube videos, as he tours various cities and towns across the country, showing the devastation wrought by offshoring ad the degeneracy of the inner city/town black folks. This morning, I watched the trip thru Pine Bluff. Jackson was another good one, and New Orleans – these cities are dying. There is a smart, nice, young black woman in the Pine Bluff video, who says the city needs “investment”, and it does. But who in their right mind would invest in a place with all the young black criminals and the uneducated black and white people? Pine Bluff is 77% black, and it ain’t coming back.
Today before Palm Sunday service in our Catholic parish, I spoke to one of our black parishioners, a retired nurse, about tutoring black high school kids. We belong to a mixed parish. Richmond is 50% black, the city is a mini-Baltimore / DC, run by Democrats for decades, and high school dropout rates have been increasing among black teens for years. I asked her, as our parish community activities director, if we could start a program to tutor black high school teens needing help in STEM. Her eyes got big, she held her hand to her mouth and said, “that would be magnificent”. I stated I was only interested in tutoring black kids in the sciences or math, and could likely recruit a few other STEM professionals from the university. She was so thrilled she walked around excitedly, presumably thinking how to make it happen. She makes things happen as a gutsy nurse.
What are you doing in your community to make it better, Floyd? You, hullbobby, james, thinkitthrough, whimsicalmama, margot, oldmanfromks, young, george, et al are notorious for Βιτching on this forum about how bad things are, as if we didnt get your points from the doom and gloom “sermons” the first 20 times. We all know America is collapsing. As usual, the ones doing the kvetching have nothing but time on their hands to engage in death scrolling the internet. With the 45 mins you wasted in watching one of the scores of depressing youtube videos capturing decaying cities like Richmond, you could have attended a church, synagogue, mosque, etc and offered your services to address some of the decay in your locale.
Fun Fact: I had a patient, a minor, with cerebral palsy who refused to live their life in a motorized wheelchair doing nothing. So the patient chose to volunteer at a hospital to be a greeter. Said patient died from COVID complications, but left an indelible mark on people by choosing to engage others and make the world a better place including a hospital with sick patients!
If retired baby boomers engaged the world mano a mano, we would have a chance. Report back to us in 10 days in what your plan of attack is now that Ive rubbed it in your face. Out-do a minor with CP in role modeling faith, hope and love in a world of intense negativity.
ya basta. enough already.
The Democrat Party continues to use, to lie to, and to brainwash black voters into believing, that after 60 years of marching, they still don’t have a “right to vote.” Democrats want their black voters to believe that they still need to march for their “right to vote” which is still being ‘suppressed’ by those racist, white supremacist Republicans.
Hello, black folks? Y’all have the right to vote. Right now, today, no one is stopping you from voting. You can stop marching now. Really.
Anonymous at 3:01 pm…………….LOVE your comment.
William f Wade……I think we can now call it “civil wrongs”.
Who can control Willis? Outside of the Judge in this case the answer seems to be no one. It is certainly a large possibility that Willis and Wade lied under oath which would, if proven, lead to her disqualification and that of her office as prosecutors with her being additionally subject to disbarrment and criminal prosecution. This trial of Trump et al will be a continueing circus and a very expensive one in terms of prosecutorial time and money spent by the justice system. Why would Georgia want to expend such sums when the outcome could be overturned on the basis of the perjury of the prosecutor? The only reason I can see is if she were revealed to have perjured herself under oath it would call into question thousands of previous convictions.
The problem is that no one seems able, once the Judge abdicated, to do much about it even though definitive proof exists to prove the potential perjury one way or another by useing the texts W and W exchanged during the relevant period. It is a miscarriage of Justice in the making. Georgia is allowing itself to be a laughing stock. If I were a defense attorney for a person previously convicted by Wades office I would be queuing up a lawsuit to try to force revealing these texts to prove her malfeasance. If enough of these are filed for poor black defendants it could be a cause celebre! After all don’t the interests of Justice trump her and Wades personal embarrassment?
The criminal acts are really not “alleged” they are in the Court record, over and over again…….This is one of the easiest Perjury cases a prosecutor could ever have!
This is the result of the judge failing to consider the evidence fairly and conclude that she committed perjury about when the relationship began. I do not understand why the Georgia AG has not summoned a grand jury on this
I understand
In the state of Georgia, adultery is a misdemeanor offense. According to Title 16, chapter 9, section 9 of Georgia’s Code of Criminal Conduct, a married person commits the offense of adultery when they voluntarily engage in sexual intercourse with a person other than their spouse. If convicted, the punishment for adultery can include up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Thus, Wade admitted under oath to this crime and Willis was his accomplice. If we look at the credentials and personas of all those trying to prosecute President Trump for make blieve crimes, they all have in common a lack of ethical and moral integrity and are motivated by self-gain, politics, and sheer hatred of a fellow human being.
There are several facets to the Willis case.
The first is should she be removed as DA ?
This has nothing specific to do with the Trump case and everything to do with misconduct that has been exposed by the effort to disqualify her from that case.
The answer is a resounding YES. This woman should not hold public office. Ashley Merchant has noted that she has lots of evidence regarding Willis that did not get into the DQ hearing – because it was not closely enough tied to that case.
But just on the evidence in the Trump case – the answer is still YES.
The standard for removing Willis from office. For disbarring her is much lower than the standard for convicting her of a crime – and frankly there is enough evidence to convict her of several crimes.
Willis should be removed from office,
Disbarred,
and criminally prosecuted.
It is even more important to do so because she is the DA and the top prosecutor in Fulton county.
We should not have people enforcing the law who so clearly can not follow and game the law themselves.
Her actions and alleged misconduct had no effect on the case. There was no clear conflict of interest based on Georgia law, but there was an appearance of impropriety. The judge was correct to give the DA a choice. Her 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.
Merchant would not have had standing with her evidence as it had no clear connection to the case.
To disbarr Willis would require a much higher standard. Her conduct according to the law would have to be serious and much worse than what she did. Trump’s lawyers have done worse and still have not been disbarred.
I don’t agree with her choice to pursue a relationship with Wade. But it is certainly not enough evidence to disqualify under Georgia law.
Why aren’t these criminal democrats going jail?
What is the 5th word in your question?