Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Monday that the state Supreme Court should not take up an appeal from Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> to be reinstated to the case against President-elect Donald Trump. 
The Georgia Court of Appeals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-disqualified-from-trump-election-case-what-does-that-mean-for-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disqualified Willis from prosecuting</a> the 2020 election interference case against Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants because of an apparent conflict of interest she created by hiring her then-boyfriend Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor. 
“The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that the Fulton County DA created her own conflict and rightfully removed her from the case against President-elect Trump,” Carr said. “‘Lawfare’ has become far too common in American politics and it must end.”
“As such, I would encourage the Georgia Supreme Court to not take her appeal,” he added. “It’s our hope that the DA will now focus taxpayer resources on the successful prosecution of violent criminals in Fulton County.”
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— GA AG Chris Carr (@Georgia_AG) <a href="https://twitter.com/Georgia_AG/status/1873794003596173768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp echoed Carr’s sentiment.
“Agreed, [Georgia AG]! Georgians deserve safe communities and partisan politics out of our courtrooms,” Kemp<a href="https://x.com/BrianKempGA/status/1873835123936030918"> posted</a> on X. 
Trump lawyer Steve Saddow also <a href="https://x.com/stevesadow/status/1873792007602098421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> with Carr, saying that a lower court had previously “abused its discretion by failing to disqualify Wade AND DA Willis” and that the Appeals Court was simply providing an “appropriate remedy.” 
Willis <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5060177-georgia-attorney-general-fani-willis-trump-appeal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Carr’s statement was motivated by his desire to run for governor. 
“If Mr. Carr cannot separate his ambition to become Governor from his duties as Attorney General, he should resign and focus on being a full-time candidate rather than serving as a constitutional officer sworn to uphold the Constitutions and laws of the United States and Georgia,” she said. 
On December 19, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to disqualify Willis from the case. 
“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25464412-trumpgaappealsopn121924/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Judge Trenton Brown.
Willis was accused of hiring Wade, who had little experience prosecuting cases, and paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they used to fund lavish vacation trips.

Fulton County Court Holds Hearing On Fani Willis Misconduct

Top Georgia Officials Say Court Should Reject Fani Willis Trump Prosecution Appeal

2020 Election

Courts

Donald Trump

Fani Willis

fulton county

Georgia

U.S.

Georgia’s Court of Appeals on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump for supposed election interference, throwing the entire case into disarray.
Willis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-done-reactions-pour-in-over-latest-bombshell-report-against-fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade</a>, to be special prosecutor in the case and allegedly benefited financially from the arrangement.
&#8220;This is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” Judge Trenton Brown <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/19/fani-willis-is-disqualified-from-prosecuting-trump-election-case-appeals-court-rules-00195323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the ruling, which was made by a three-judge panel.
The ruling means Willis can&#8217;t lead the case against Trump in Georgia, but it&#8217;s uncertain how or if the case will continue when it&#8217;s kicked to another prosecutor.
&#8220;Fani Willis was just disqualified by the Georgia Court of Appeals. Trump appears to be running the table in these lawfare cases,&#8221; law professor Jonathan Turley posted to X on Thursday. &#8220;It will now be up to another prosecutor as to whether to continue the case.&#8221;
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Fani Willis was just disqualified by the Georgia Court of Appeals. Trump appears to be running the table in these lawfare cases. It will now be up to another prosecutor as to whether to continue the case&#8230;
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1869764641729171783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
Turley noted that Willis, while &#8220;attempting to bag Trump,&#8221; &#8220;created an absurdly attenuated RICO theory that should not be embraced by the new prosecutor.&#8221;
&#8220;While this disqualification is due to the conduct of Willis and not the underlying claims, any new prosecutor will have to make an independent judgment on whether and what to prosecute,&#8221; he wrote.
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&#8230;While this disqualification is due to the conduct of Willis and not the underlying claims, any new prosecutor will have to make an independent judgment on whether and what to prosecute&#8230;
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1869766149627646109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
The professor added that Willis &#8220;spent copious amounts of time and money&#8221; clinging to the Trump case, while &#8220;most prosecutors&#8221; would view continuing it as &#8220;undermining her office and not serving the interests of the public.&#8221;
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&#8220;Willis was so invested in playing this high-profile lawfare role that she was willing to suspend prosecution and endanger the case itself,&#8221; he said.
When Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAffee left the door open for Willis to withdraw, she refused, Turley said, which forced the appeal that ultimately led to her demise &#8212; and possibly the case&#8217;s demise.
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&#8230;Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAffee correctly criticized Willis for her decisions and creating &#8220;an appearance of impropriety.&#8221; However, he left it to Willis to do the right thing and withdraw. She did not and forced this appeal&#8230;
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1869767476025975054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-done-reactions-pour-in-over-latest-bombshell-report-against-fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘It’s DONE’: Reactions Pour In Over Latest Bombshell Report Against Fani Willis</a>

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Fani Willis Disqualified From Trump Election Case. What Does That Mean For Trump?

Politics

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to hand over all records related to her communications with special counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee after a court granted a motion for default adjustment against her on Tuesday.
Willis is leading a controversial RICO case against now-President-elect Donald Trump and several of his top associates for alleged election interference, which is now on pause.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney is giving Willis five business days to produce the material, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fani-willis-ordered-give-watchdog-all-communications-special-counsel-jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Tuesday night. McBurney also said in his ruling that Willis violated Georgia&#8217;s open records act when she failed to respond to nonprofit Judicial Watch&#8217;s lawsuit about the communication.
Willis&#8217; office claimed in March that it did not have any documents on file or communications with Smith or the J6 Committee, Fox noted. However, the claim was untrue, and the office did have such communication.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-house-report-reveals-trump-prosecutor-nathan-wade-met-with-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak</a> in October revealed Nathan Wade &#8211; Willis&#8217; romantic partner, whom she hired as special prosecutor in the Trump case &#8211; had extensive communications with the Biden White House, according to records.
Wade billed the Fulton County office for hours of meetings with the White House, the congressional January 6 committee, and other D.C. officials, according to records obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.
On November 18, 2022, he billed eight hours for “Interview with DC/White House,” but under oath, he claimed he didn’t remember the meeting and couldn’t even say whether it was online or in person. Between September 7 and September 9, 2022, Wade billed $6,000 to taxpayers for “Witness Interviews; conf call DC; team meeting,” but couldn’t remember what the D.C. meeting entailed.
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A released <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-10-15%20Nathan%20Wade%20Deposition_Redacted_Errata.pdf">transcript</a> of an interview with Wade, which was compelled by subpoena, shows that Willis was preparing to prosecute Trump even before she took office. She put Wade on a “search committee” to find a prosecutor, which ultimately chose him for the job.
In addition to the accusation that her office was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-house-report-reveals-trump-prosecutor-nathan-wade-met-with-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly working with the White House and top Democrats</a>, Willis has been marred by the hiring of Wade, her boyfriend, since the pair allegedly benefited financially from the arrangement.
Currently, it&#8217;s being worked through the courts to determine if Willis and her office can continue to prosecute the case. Wade has already been forced to resign from his position.
Luke Rosiak contributed to this report.

Fani Willis Ordered To Hand Over All Jack Smith/J6 Comms In 5 Business Days

Jack Smith

January 6

January 6 Committee

One of the benefits of our whole federal system, at least in theory, is that it provides some insulation from bad government. If your state is being run into the ground by incompetent politicians, then you can just move to another state. And if a local politician is doing a terrible job, then at least he&#8217;s not wrecking the rest of the country. The damage is contained. 
That&#8217;s the idea, anyway. And there are about a million reasons why that&#8217;s not true anymore. Exhibit A is the series of ongoing and deeply embarrassing disasters that are unfolding at the moment in Atlanta, Georgia and its surrounding metro area. There&#8217;s no other way to say this: Because the principles of federalism are no longer really operative, Atlanta&#8217;s dysfunction poses a direct threat to the entire country. You can&#8217;t get away from it simply by fleeing the state of Georgia. It&#8217;s all encompassing.
We&#8217;re now all very familiar with the catastrophe that is Fulton County, Georgia&#8217;s attempt to prosecute Donald Trump on RICO charges. The lead prosecutor, Fani Willis, saw the trial as an opportunity to promote her boyfriend and shower him with taxpayer money, then she apparently lied about it to the court. She also tried to play the sassy woman when she testified about this conflict of interest, which somehow managed to lower public confidence in her office even further. That&#8217;s all well-documented.
On top of that, just this week, former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler asked why Fulton County officials are reportedly attempting to <a href="https://x.com/KLoeffler/status/1806059124477632788" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroy</a> 2020 election ballots before they can be inspected. This comes after the Georgia Election Board <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/05/07/georgia-oversight-panel-ruminates-on-2020-election-hiccups-as-2024-showdowns-loom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to reprimand Fulton County — and appoint an independent poll monitor for the upcoming election — because of irregularities in the way the county counted ballots in 2020. 
That decision came after testimony like this, where it emerged that hundreds of thousands of &#8220;ballot images&#8221; are apparently missing in Georgia:
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Again, this might be mildly amusing if the impact of all this incompetence were confined to Georgia. But it&#8217;s not. Counting ballots affects national politics. Jailing a presidential candidate affects national politics. So the infestation of incompetent morons in the government of the state of Georgia is, unfortunately, a concern of everyone living in this country. Somehow, the most inept people imaginable are running things in Georgia. It&#8217;s important to figure out how exactly that happened, so we can stop it from getting even worse, if that&#8217;s even possible at this point.
That brings me to the very curious case of a woman who — until recently — was the <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/rookie-probate-judge-could-make-be-highest-paid-judge-in-douglas-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest paid</a> judge in Douglas County: a Democrat by the name of Christina Peterson. Peterson was making somewhere north of $100,000 a year, according to some reports. She became a probate judge in Douglas County, which is right next to Fulton County, back in 2020 after winning a contested primary and running unopposed in a general election. To be clear, Peterson wasn&#8217;t handling the most high-stakes cases in Atlanta. She dealt with things like marriage licenses.
But even so — you&#8217;d hope that a relatively highly paid judge in a metro area like Atlanta would be well-qualified, professional, and competent. At the very least, you might think she&#8217;d have some capacity to control herself in public. But last week, it became clear to everyone that Peterson lacks every single one of those characteristics. She apparently got into a fight outside a nightclub and hit a police officer, and it was all recorded on the officer&#8217;s body camera. Watch:
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Try to imagine arriving here in a time machine from 30 years ago and watching that video. You would assume that the woman in the video is an unemployed welfare recipient. When you found out that this is the kind of person who becomes a judge in the year 2024, you would be shocked. And then you’d get back in your time machine, go back to your own time, and do everything in your power to warn the public about the cursed future you’re heading into. But nobody would believe you. The sad reality is that voters in Douglas County picked this candidate as the best one in a competitive primary. And then, throughout her several years in office, no one decided she was unqualified in any way. 
That all finally changed this week, when the Supreme Court of Georgia removed Christina Peterson from the bench. But they didn&#8217;t remove her because she hit a police officer in that body camera footage. They removed her because of more than four dozen ethics complaints that, in the words of the court, demonstrated her &#8220;flagrant disregard for the law, court rules, and judicial conduct rules.” 
And this is quite a rap sheet we&#8217;re talking about here. The most egregious incident took place in August 2021. I&#8217;m going to describe it in some detail, because it&#8217;s actually hard to believe that such a low-level judge would engage in such obvious, flagrant misconduct. And the fact that this woman did engage in this conduct — and held onto her job for several years — tells us a lot about how the &#8220;justice system&#8221; works in Atlanta, and nationwide.
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According to the Georgia Supreme Court, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Thailand filed a petition to amend her marriage-license application. She wanted to correct the name she had listed as her father&#8217;s name on the form. Basically, five years earlier, she had originally listed her uncle&#8217;s name because her father wasn&#8217;t involved in her life at the time. And now she wanted to fix that, because &#8220;she was completing emigration documents for her mother and believed she should correct the application so that it would not be inconsistent with her birth certificate.&#8221; To support this application, this petitioner &#8220;attached a copy of her birth certificate, which had been translated from Thai into English.&#8221; There was even a note on the copy that it was a translation, as opposed to an official document.
Hearing all of this, you might conclude that this is not exactly the court case of the century. But in response to this filing, Christina Peterson went to war. She wasn&#8217;t going to let this marriage-license application (from five years ago) get amended without a fight. So she summoned this woman to her court. She didn&#8217;t advise her of her right to have a lawyer or anything. She just demanded that this woman show up. And when the woman showed up, Christina Peterson told her that the copy of the birth certificate was, “fictitious,” “fraudulent,” and “forged.&#8221; She declared that the petitioner was in &#8220;blatant disregard for the laws of the State of Georgia&#8221; and sentenced her to the maximum possible punishment for contempt — 20 days in jail. This is a criminal offense. But, in the alternative, the judge allowed this petitioner the option of serving two days in jail and paying a $500 fine. That&#8217;s ultimately what the woman had to do. She couldn&#8217;t alert her children or arrange childcare services or anything. She just went straight to jail.
Anyway, the ethics panel in Georgia looked into this. They concluded that nothing Christina Peterson did made any sense. They said that the judge “predetermined” that the petitioner committed criminal contempt; &#8220;issued the notice of the hearing without informing the petitioner that the criminal contempt matter would be adjudicated; ambushed the petitioner at the hearing by alleging that she had committed a crime; summarily found the petitioner guilty and sentenced her; and then lied about her actions in her testimony before the Panel.&#8221;
There are a bunch of other violations in addition to this one. For instance, the panel found that the judge let a wedding party into the courthouse &#8220;without ensuring that the party underwent security screening by sheriff&#8217;s deputies.&#8221; And then she tried to cover it up. According to the Georgia Supreme Court, she, &#8220;falsely testified that after the division commander [of the courthouse] told her not to take the wedding party into the courthouse, the sheriff overrode that directive and granted her permission to enter the courthouse to perform the wedding ceremony.&#8221;
There was another incident in which a sheriff&#8217;s deputy who was supposed to escort the judge to the courtroom in May of 2021 didn&#8217;t get there on time. So the judge &#8220;pushed the panic button under her desk,&#8221; which is reserved for emergencies. Then the police swarmed into her office and she pretended to not understand what the panic button was for. And there are dozens of other instances like this. 
They&#8217;re all comical examples of the most petty corruption imaginable — seemingly just for the sake of being petty and corrupt. It&#8217;s not even clear how this judge would personally gain from any of these abuses of power. Even the smallest amount of power can go to a person’s head, after all. I once worked for an assistant manager at a pizza restaurant whose 16 dollar an hour management position had turned him into a power mad tyrant. And now we have a lot of those kinds of people wearing judges robes, working in congress, etc.
This whole story tells us something about how easy it is for useless and corrupt halfwits to infest local governments — which matters for the rest of the country, as I outlined earlier. And incidents like this aren&#8217;t confined to Georgia. 
A couple of years ago in Ohio, a judge named Tracie Hunter had to be dragged out of court after her conviction on corruption charges was upheld. Watch:
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Tracie Hunter was another elected judge. In fact, she was the first woman judge *and* the first black judge ever to serve on Hamilton County&#8217;s Juvenile Court. She broke two glass ceilings at once, only to end up like this. 
But don&#8217;t get too sentimental, because there&#8217;s a lot more where that came from. In fact, just this week, there was another unceremonious fall for yet another pathbreaking black civil servant. I&#8217;m talking of course about Jamaal Bowman, who famously pretended not to understand how fire alarms work so that he could delay a House vote. Bowman just lost his primary, as you might have heard. According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote a <a href="https://x.com/AOC/status/1805996713053696331">teary-eyed tweet</a> to mark the occasion, Bowman was, &#8220;Elected as the 1st Black Congressman for NY-16.&#8221;
Now, that&#8217;s not true, as it turns out. New York&#8217;s 16th Congressional District has had several other black representatives in its history. But more to the point, this was how Bowman and AOC tried to turn out the vote at a rally just before Bowman&#8217;s election defeat. This was a rally that wasn&#8217;t even in his district, by the way. Watch:
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Watching that, you can understand why the school that Bowman &#8220;led&#8221; for a decade is doing about as well as LeBron James&#8217; school. They have reading and math proficiency scores hovering below 30%. In any event, AOC and Bowman are prancing around like they see themselves as superstars. And fortunately for them, those videos are shot at a pretty close angle. But if you take a few steps back, this is what the rally actually looked like:
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Hard to believe this rally crowd didn’t propel Jamaal Bowman to victory
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No one&#8217;s even there. It&#8217;s a completely dead rally. And indeed, the reason no one was there is that Jamaal Bowman is very unpopular. But somehow, instead of making any effort to win over voters, both Bowman and AOC decided that the best course of action was just to run around on stage and scream.
At the local level, all over the country, we are ruled by people like this. These are people who make a mockery out of politics and the judicial system. They have no regard for any of it. They don&#8217;t even realize how absurd they look to everyone else because they&#8217;re not capable of shame. And yet somehow, at one point or another, all of these people I&#8217;ve mentioned managed to win competitive elections. And they&#8217;ve parlayed those wins, in some cases, into national influence. That&#8217;s why fleeing their jurisdictions isn&#8217;t enough anymore. Instead we must mock them at every opportunity and point out their corruption whenever possible. That worked, to an extent, with Jamaal Bowman. Now there&#8217;s a lot more imbeciles who need to meet the same fate.

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A System Run By Illiterate Imbeciles

Atlanta

Judges

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Readers Pass

The defense attorney for rapper Young Thug was held in contempt of court and arrested in Fulton County, Georgia, on Monday after he refused to reveal information he obtained about an ex parte meeting held in the judge&#8217;s chambers between the prosecution and a key witness.
Attorney Brian Steel got into a heated exchange with Judge Ural Glanville after Steel revealed information about a private meeting between the judge, the state, and a key witness, 11 Alive <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/ysl-trial/young-thug-lawyer-brian-steel-taken-into-custody-held-in-contempt/85-47a2aceb-0eb7-467a-ae57-30ac94a3a635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, is in the middle of what has already been the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/young-thug-trial-longest-in-georgia-history-started-one-year-ago-today/RLQKG42ZHFGABLSBUHJ5HBNTZM/#:~:text=Selecting%20a%20jury%20took%2010,state%20trial%20in%20Georgia's%20history." target="_blank" rel="noopener">longest trial</a> in Georgia history. Young Thug was indicted with 27 others in the spring of 2022 on allegations that he leads the YSL street gang, which investigators have tied to drug deals, drive-by shootings, and the deaths of at least three people in Atlanta.
Along with gun and drug charges, the rapper was charged with violating Georgia&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) — the same charges leveled against former President Donald Trump, who is also being prosecuted in Fulton County.
Steel motioned for a mistrial, telling Judge Glanville that he received information about the ex parte meeting, which means it was done outside of the presence of opposing counsel, excluding the rapper&#8217;s defense team. The attorney alleged that during the meeting, the judge and district attorney&#8217;s office convinced Kenneth &#8220;YSL Woody&#8221; Copeland to testify. Copeland was previously held in contempt and arrested after pleading the fifth during testimony last week, but during the ex parte meeting, Copeland allegedly admitted to killing Donovan &#8220;Nut&#8221; Thomas Jr, who was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.
&#8220;I need you to tell me how you got the information [about the meeting],&#8221; Judge Glanville told Steel. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t tell me how you got the information, I&#8217;m going to hold you in contempt.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand. I don&#8217;t want to be held in contempt,&#8221; Steel replied.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to hold you in contempt, but this is so sacrosanct to have a conversation in my chambers parrotted to you and others,&#8221; the judge added. &#8220;It is that serious.&#8221;
Steel agreed with the judge about the seriousness of the meeting, adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s why we should&#8217;ve been there.&#8221; He also asked why the meeting with a witness would be held ex parte.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s ex parte because that&#8217;s what the state asked me to do,&#8221; Glanville said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just like when you asked me for an ex parte conversation.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never asked this court or any court to meet with me and a witness,&#8221; Steel said.
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FULL HEATED ARGUMENT 🚨‼️
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Judge Glanville then again asked Steel to reveal how he obtained information about the meeting with the state and Copeland, but the defense attorney refused, arguing that he isn&#8217;t permitted to disclose his source.
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m gonna hold you in contempt,&#8221; the judge said. &#8220;And you can think about it — 5 o&#8217;clock today we&#8217;ll see where you stand on that point.&#8221;
Glanville again ripped into the defense attorney, accusing him of eavesdropping to &#8220;get information that was not meant for you to hear at that particular point in time.&#8221; Steel argued that the meeting was proof of &#8220;coercion&#8221; and &#8220;witness intimidation&#8221; during &#8220;ex parte communications that we have a constitutional right to be present for.&#8221;
The judge <a href="https://x.com/Theprogressrep2/status/1800360343535046852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> Steel to be jailed for &#8220;no more than 20 days&#8221; for contempt of court. Steel will serve his jail sentence every weekend for the next 10 weekends, per the judge&#8217;s order. Steel asked if he could spend his time in jail with his client, Young Thug, to help him prepare for court, and the judge said he would ask the Fulton County sheriff if that would be possible.

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Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> appealed on Thursday a Georgia judge’s decision to dismiss six charges lodged at former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Willis <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/da-fani-willis-appeals-dismissal-charges-against-trump-georgia-election-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the Georgia Court of Appeals to reverse Judge Scott McAfee’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/6-charges-brought-by-fani-willis-against-trump-allies-dismissed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> to throw out the charges, including three against Trump, that were part of her 41-count election interference case against Trump and his co-defendants. In March, McAfee dismissed six of the charges saying that Willis had not been specific enough. 
“As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited,” McAfee wrote. “They do not give the Defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently, as the Defendants could have violated the Constitutions and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct ways.”
The judge dismissed counts 2, 5, 6, 23, 28, and 38. Each count deals with allegations that Trump and his allies asked Georgia officials to break their oaths of office. The defendants challenged the charges, saying their Sixth Amendment rights and due process rights had been violated. 
McAfee said that the prosecutors were not clear about the legal violations that Trump and his co-defendants are accused of. 
“The Court’s concern is less that the State has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the Defendants – in fact it has alleged an abundance,” he wrote. “However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned’s opinion, fatal.”
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The appeal comes after Willis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-easily-wins-democratic-primary-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">easily won</a> the Democratic primary election for district attorney on Tuesday night, taking 87% of the nearly 90,000 votes in the heavily Democratic county. Willis will now face Republican nominee and pro-Trump candidate Courtney Kramer in the November general election.
Willis has been heavily scrutinized over her prosecution of Trump, especially with the involvement of her former lover Nathan Wade on the case. The two were accused of using money paid to Wade for his work on the case to go on luxury vacations and trips. 
McAfee ruled earlier this year that either Willis or Wade had to leave the case after Trump’s defense moved to have Willis disqualified.

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Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fulton-county-prosecutors-have-another-recording-of-trump-pressuring-georgia-house-speaker-to-overturn-election-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a>, the Georgia prosecutor leading a 2020 election interference case against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and his allies, skipped a debate over the weekend.
Her challenger for the Democratic Party&#8217;s nomination, attorney Christian Wise Smith, instead faced off against an empty podium at the Sunday event <a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/04/29/fulton-da-candidate-criticizes-willis-approach-in-trump-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsored</a> by the Atlanta Press Club.
Prior to the debate, a Willis campaign statement said the DA was not doing interviews about &#8220;high-profile cases&#8221; that her office is prosecuting, including the election case and the <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2024/04/23/young-thug-trial-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YSL trial</a> involving Atlanta rapper Young Thug, ahead of the May 21 primary.
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Fani Willis skips DA debate.
&quot;Fani declined to participate in the debate and is represented by an empty podium.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9MK24gRE5g">pic.twitter.com/9MK24gRE5g</a>
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&#8220;We understand that she cannot insist that panelists and her opponent avoid certain subjects, and consequently, her participation means likely repeatedly being unable to respond to questions, as well as risking saying something that defense counsel could make an issue in ongoing litigation,&#8221; the statement <a href="https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1782163588905353638" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
A recent poll conducted by political consultant Fred Hicks found Willis leading with 79% support compared to 9% for Wise Smith, indicating that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nathan-wade-steps-down-as-special-prosecutor-in-trump-georgia-case-following-judges-ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">romance controversy</a> related to the DA&#8217;s now-former special prosecutor Nathan Wade is not endangering her re-election prospects, <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/poll-shows-first-look-at-key-fulton-county-races" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox 5 Atlanta</a>.
Wise Smith, who previously lost to Willis in a 2020 matchup for the DA role, challenged the incumbent to a debate rematch. &#8220;There is no reason we can&#8217;t reschedule the debate,&#8221; Smith <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-trump-da-bailed-debate-schmooze-celebs-challenged-rematch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release obtained by Fox News Digital. &#8220;We are happy to work with her team to do it.&#8221;
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Courtney Kramer, a lawyer whose <a href="https://www.katz.legal/attorney/kramer-courtney-a/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography</a> says she interned in the Office of the White House Counsel under Trump, is running for the DA position as a Republican.
A judge allowed Willis to press forward with her election case in March after her special prosecutor, Wade, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nathan-wade-steps-down-as-special-prosecutor-in-trump-georgia-case-following-judges-ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> amid concerns about a romantic relationship between the two. The other option was for Willis herself to step down. Willis <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/fulton-county-da-court-appeals-decline-review-disqualification-ruling/85-43861f0b-9934-4ab7-8d21-591ab3332656" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested that an</a> appeals court uphold the ruling after the defense <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/29/trump-fani-willis-nathan-wade-georgia-election/77209956-ee03-11ee-8f2c-380a821c02db_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought a review</a>.
Trump and 18 co-defendants pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case, though four have since taken <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/fourth-trump-co-defendant-takes-plea-deal-in-georgia-election-interference-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plea deals</a>. The former president, who is seeking a second White House term, has broadly denied wrongdoing across multiple cases and claimed that prosecutors are engaged in a politically motivated “witch hunt” against him.

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Judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-presiding-over-trump-georgia-case-previously-worked-under-kemp-fulton-county-da" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott McAfee</a> said on Friday that either Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade must leave the 2020 Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump for the prosecution to continue. 
The decision came after Willis was accused by co-defendant Mike Roman of being romantically involved with Wade at the time she hired him for the Trump case. A witness <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-started-relationship-with-prosecutor-before-trump-case-witness-testifies">testified</a> last month that the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade began before the case started, while Willis maintains that the relationship didn&#8217;t take place until later.
McAfee <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that “the District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office” or “Wade can withdraw” from the case. The judge added that he found an appearance of “impropriety” but that the defendants had “failed to meet their burden” of proving a conflict of interest based on Willis and Wade’s relationship. 
“The established record now highlights a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team — an appearance that must be removed,” the judge <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/15/fani-willis-trump-georgia-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Wade has reportedly received more than $650,000 since January of 2022 from the Willis’ office. Wade also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-prosecutor-on-trump-case-bought-flights-for-da-fani-willis-to-accompany-him-on-multiple-trips-court-filing">reportedly paid</a> for Willis to accompany him on multiple trips in 2022 and 2023. Willis has claimed that she paid Wade back in cash for the trips they took together.
Trump and his co-defendants might choose to appeal the ruling to keep either Wade or Willis and her team on the case.
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The decision <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/6-charges-brought-by-fani-willis-against-trump-allies-dismissed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comes</a> after McAfee dismissed six charges in the case brought by Willis, including three against Trump. McAfee dismissed counts 2, 5, 6, 23, 28, and 38. Each count deals with allegations that Trump and his allies asked Georgia officials to break their oaths of office. The defendants challenged the charges, saying their Sixth Amendment rights and due process rights had been violated. 
McAfee said that the prosecutors were not specific enough about the legal violations that Trump and his co-defendants are accused of. 
“The Court’s concern is less that the State has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the Defendants – in fact it has alleged an abundance,” he wrote. “However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned’s opinion, fatal.”

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Judge Rules That Fani Willis Or Nathan Wade Has To Leave The Georgia Trump Case

Judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-presiding-over-trump-georgia-case-previously-worked-under-kemp-fulton-county-da" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott McAfee</a> on Wednesday dismissed six charges in the Georgia 2020 election interference case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants. 
The <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24478988/trump_specialdemurrers_31324.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissal</a> included three of the 13 charges against Trump, including allegations that he asked the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Secretary of State to break their oaths of office. Three of the 13 charges against Rudy Giuliani were also dropped, along with one of the nine counts against Trump lawyer John Eastman, one of the two counts against former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, three of the 12 counts against Georgia lawyer Ray Smith, and one of the ten counts against Georgia attorney Robert Cheeley. 
&#8220;As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited,” McAfee wrote. “They do not give the Defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently, as the Defendants could have violated the Constitutions and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct ways.”
McAfee dismissed counts 2, 5, 6, 23, 28, and 38. Each count deals with allegations that Trump and his allies asked Georgia officials to break their oaths of office. The defendants challenged the charges, saying their Sixth Amendment rights and due process rights had been violated. 
McAfee said that the prosecutors were not specific enough about the legal violations that Trump and his co-defendants are accused of. 
“The Court’s concern is less that the State has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the Defendants – in fact it has alleged an abundance,” he wrote. “However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned’s opinion, fatal.”
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The decision comes as McAfee weighs disqualifying Willis from the case over allegations that she engaged in an improper relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. 
Willis is accused of being romantically involved with Wade at the time she hired him. Willis has claimed that the relationship began later. The two allegedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to Wade for the Trump case to go on lavish vacations. 
A witness last month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-started-relationship-with-prosecutor-before-trump-case-witness-testifies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade began before the election interference case against Trump.

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6 Charges Brought By Fani Willis Against Trump, Allies Dismissed

Judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-presiding-over-trump-georgia-case-previously-worked-under-kemp-fulton-county-da" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott McAfee</a> ruled on Monday that the former divorce lawyer for special prosecutor Nathan Wade should testify about Wade’s relationship with Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> as she faces disqualification from the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. 
McAfee said that Terrence Bradley, who previously worked as Wade’s law partner and divorce lawyer, would not be exempted from testifying on the relationship between Willis and Wade, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/judge-wades-law-partner-must-testify-about-relationship-with-willis/FQLTCWX75JBG7AX3O4GVWEMFHE/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bradley’s testimony could shed further light on when the relationship between Wade and Willis began, a key part of the case for disqualifying Willis. 
Lawyers for Mike Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants, have argued that Willis should be disqualified because of an improper relationship with Wade, with whom she admitted to having a romantic relationship. Roman’s lawyers say that their romance began before the Trump case and that Willis has paid Wade hundreds of thousands of dollars which they have used to go on lavish vacations. 
Willis claims that the relationship began after she hired Wade, who reportedly has little prosecuting experience. She also disputed allegations that Wade was paying for their trips entirely with money she had paid him from the Trump case. 
McAfee met with Bradley for more than an hour on Monday before ruling that emails between him and Wade did not fall under attorney-client privilege. Bradley, Wade, and Willis had all attempted to block Bradley from testifying. 
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Trump&#8217;s lawyers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cellphone-data-contradicts-nathan-wades-testimony-on-relationship-with-fani-willis-report">submitted cell phone data</a> last week that they say contradicts Wade’s testimony about the timeline of his relationship with Willis. The data indicates that Wade appeared to make 35 trips to Willis’ neighborhood in Hapeville, Georgia, before he was hired. During his testimony last week, Wade said he had not visited Willis’ home more than ten times before 2021.
The data submitted by Trump’s attorneys poses another timeline issue for Willis, since both she and Wade testified under oath that their romantic relationship didn’t begin until 2022. An affidavit from investigator Charles Mittelstadt was included in Friday’s court filing and says that Willis and Wade called each other more than 2,000 times in the first 11 months of 2021. Willis and Wade also sent nearly 12,000 text messages during that same time period, according to CellHawk, the tool Mittelstadt used. 
Trump has maintained his innocence in Georgia, saying that he is being prosecuted for political purposes.

Former Nathan Wade Divorce Lawyer To Testify On Relationship Between Wade And Fani Willis

You might think that it would be difficult to cause any kind of serious problem in a Wendy&#8217;s drive-thru. The concept is pretty simple: You sit in the car, and when it&#8217;s your turn, you drive up, get your order, and then you drive off. In an orderly society, it&#8217;s a pretty straight-forward, fool-proof system.
But in the days after George Floyd was canonized, of course, all rules were suspended. Things started breaking down. Accordingly, on June 12 of that year, a 27-year-old man named Rayshard Brooks decided to treat the Wendy&#8217;s drive-thru like a motel room. He got drunk out of his mind and passed out in his car, as he waited to get his hamburger and frosty. Then, when two police officers arrived in an attempt to keep the drive-thru moving, Brooks started fighting with one of the officers, stole his taser, and began running away. A few seconds later, Brooks turned around and pointed the stolen taser at the officers, at which point he was shot and killed. It was not only a justified police shooting but perhaps one of the most justified police shootings ever caught on film.
Nevertheless, just a few days later, the top prosecutor in Fulton County Georgia, a guy named Paul Howard, decided to charge both officers on the scene with a variety of crimes. One of the officers was hit with aggravated assault charges. The other cop — the officer who shot Brooks — was charged with capital murder. In other words, Howard tried to give a cop the death sentence for the crime of simply doing his job. And it&#8217;s all because, as Paul Howard argued, they didn&#8217;t seem afraid after they had shot Rayshard Brooks and neutralized the threat he presented — as if they should have been cowering behind their cruisers until backup arrived. That was the actual argument Howard made.
This makes no sense whatsoever, which is why a couple of years later — after these officers’ careers and lives were destroyed — a special prosecutor dropped the charges. Howard was then voted out of office. This obviously incompetent, politically motivated D.A. was gone. He lost the ability to bring frivolous charges against anyone else ever again.
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Unfortunately for the people of Atlanta and the rest of the country, Howard&#8217;s replacement was a woman named Fani Willis. And over the past few days, it&#8217;s become clear that Willis is somehow an even less dignified, more incompetent, and more corrupt version of the man she replaced. 
Willis is not simply trying to prosecute two police officers to appease the mob, as unforgivable as that is. Willis is instead trying to imprison the leading candidate in the U.S. presidential election. And she&#8217;s doing it, apparently, to enrich herself and her boyfriend, Nathan Wade.
Last week, Willis had to answer questions under oath in a hearing about her romantic relationship with Wade. That&#8217;s because Willis has told the court that the relationship began only after she named Wade — a family lawyer with no experience prosecuting RICO cases — as a key lawyer overseeing the Trump RICO prosecution. 
But Willis&#8217; claim was contradicted in the hearing by a former co-worker in Willis&#8217; office, who said the relationship actually began back in 2019:
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BREAKING: Fani Willis’ friend testifies that Nathan Wade’s romantic relationship with Willis started in 2019. <a href="https://t.co/2f6GM4I92I">pic.twitter.com/2f6GM4I92I</a>
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This is obviously a big problem for Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, and the entire Trump prosecution. If they lied to the court, they can be disqualified or even disbarred on that basis alone. But in context, the reason for the lie is even more important. Fani Willis, by hiring Wade, was able to direct hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars into his bank account. And the two apparently used that money to fund a lavish lifestyle — which means the RICO prosecutors might be guilty of a little RICO themselves.
You&#8217;ve probably heard this analysis from other pundits already, so I won&#8217;t belabor it. What I will emphasize, however, because a lot of people are too polite to say it out loud, is that above and beyond her obvious corruption, Fani Willis is a complete moron. Put aside the fact that she&#8217;s trying to sabotage the upcoming election in a flagrant act of election interference. Fani Willis — the chief law enforcement officer in Fulton County, Georgia — is not even remotely close to being a bright woman. This hearing made that very clear. And the implications could not be any more significant. 
There are too many clips to show you that prove this point, so here&#8217;s just a couple. Watch:
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BREAKING: Fani Willis Just admitted to campaign finance violations under oath
Things can&#39;t get any worse for her 😂
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FANI WILLIS RATTLED ON THE STAND:
&quot;I am not a hostile witness. I VERY much want to be here. Ms. Merchant&#39;s interests are p&#8230;are..contadi&#8230; contrary to democracy, your honor, not to mine!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/tTrKTvQUBh">pic.twitter.com/tTrKTvQUBh</a>
&mdash; 💋🇺🇸 Country Over Party🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@gagirlpolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/gagirlpolitics/status/1758232633710936168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In that second clip you just saw, Fani Willis says she&#8217;s not a &#8220;hostile witness&#8221; because she wants to testify. But the designation of &#8220;hostile witness&#8221; has nothing to do with wanting to testify or not. It means that the witness has adverse interests to the party questioning her — which is the normal situation on cross-examination, but an unusual situation on direct examination. Being a &#8220;hostile witness&#8221; basically means that the lawyers can ask the witness more aggressive leading questions on direct examination, as if it&#8217;s a cross-examination. You&#8217;d think Willis would know this, as the D.A. of Fulton County. But apparently not.
Fani Willis also doesn&#8217;t appear to understand the legal implications of other claims she made during her testimony. For example, in the first clip you just saw, Willis states, &#8220;When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.&#8221; I&#8217;m not a campaign finance expert, but that seems like the kind of statement that you don&#8217;t want to make under oath. Using campaign funds for personal expenses is generally frowned upon.
To be fair, elsewhere in the hearing, Willis does say that she took money out of her retirement account to fund her campaign for local judge (before she ran for D.A.) — so it&#8217;s possible she&#8217;s referring to her own money here. But it&#8217;s not clear whether she told donors to her D.A. campaign about this arrangement.
That would certainly be the professional thing to do. But, after watching Fani Willis&#8217; other testimony, we have reason to doubt her professionalism, to put it mildly. Watch:
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FANI: “So if you tell me it’s a G then you gon get a thousand dollas”
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FANI WILLIS: “I don&#39;t like wine. I like Grey Goose.” 🤣🤣🤣
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It used to be that prosecutors displayed some level of respect for the office they held. These are people with the power to use the force of law to imprison and bankrupt pretty much anyone in the state. They&#8217;re elected, supposedly, to uphold fundamental principles of fairness and justice — without which we do not have the rule of law. When D.A.s start acting like sassy waitresses, or trashy pop stars, then people, understandably, lose all faith in the judicial system. If they have no integrity, then the system has no integrity.
It doesn&#8217;t help matters that Fani Willis was reportedly <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13092639/fani-willis-dress-backwards-georgia-misconduct-hearing.html">wearing</a> her dress backwards, and her flag-pin sideways. Now, for the record, this isn&#8217;t confirmed. Fashion experts on the internet have identified two dresses that are similar to the one Fani Willis was wearing — one with the zipper in the back, and one with the zipper in the front, as Fani Willis was wearing it. Here&#8217;s a side by side of the two dresses in question:
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If you&#8217;re more inclined to pursue this question than I am, you can compare those images to the pictures of Fani Willis testifying. And you can come to your own conclusion on whether she&#8217;s wearing the dress properly. But the point is, given everything else about Willis&#8217; testimony, it&#8217;s completely believable that she doesn&#8217;t know how to dress herself. If she doesn&#8217;t know anything about the law, even though she&#8217;s a lawyer, then putting clothes on could also present challenges. This is the level of faith that people have in Fani Willis, and deservedly so.
As a result, right now it looks like Willis stands a real chance of getting booted off this case. Her performance was that bad, to say nothing of the fact she apparently lied to the court. But even if she and Nathan Wade are ultimately disqualified from continuing this prosecution, the reality is that there are many more equally incompetent prosecutors waiting to take their place in the state of Georgia.
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Take this footage from a couple of months ago, for example. It&#8217;s from the prosecutor&#8217;s closing argument in the case of Hannah Payne. For background, Hannah Payne witnessed an impaired driver run a red light, cause a car accident, then flee the scene. Payne realized no one had the guy&#8217;s license plate, so she gave chase and pulled in front of the guy. Then she says the man grabbed her wrist through the window of the car, and the gun went off, killing him.
Whether you think Hannah Payne is guilty of murder or not, based on those facts, you have to concede it&#8217;s a complex case. Hannah Payne&#8217;s life is on the line, and it&#8217;s clear she&#8217;s not a malicious person who goes around shooting people at random. Plus, she had reason to worry that this impaired driver was going to cause more accidents. So given that background, you might assume that the prosecutor in this case would be a serious person, well-versed in the law, who&#8217;s able to communicate professionally to the jury.
Instead, here&#8217;s the prosecutor who was assigned to Hannah Payne&#8217;s case. Watch:
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&#8220;She shoulda minded her own bid-ness,&#8221; says the prosecutor. Then she pauses for a while, just to let the line sink in. This was her &#8220;Clarence Darrow&#8221; moment and you can tell she&#8217;s proud of it. The rest of us are wondering whether there are any prosecutors in Georgia who don&#8217;t act like Fani Willis. Is there a single prosecutor in the state who&#8217;s capable of speaking and acting like an actual lawyer? Again, this is the major crimes division. This is a homicide case. And this is the best they can offer?
The problem isn&#8217;t just confined to Georgia, of course, although it appears to be especially acute there. We&#8217;re living under a tyranny of mediocre morons. These morons are representing the government in court, where they can send you to prison for the rest of your life. In some cases they&#8217;re also enforcing the law on the street, as police officers. And they have the complete and total backing of the government. There&#8217;s no effort underway to restore competence to any of these positions. What you see is what you get. 
In fact, the government is seemingly encouraging these people to act as dumb as they possibly can, just to erode the public trust as much as possible. That&#8217;s the only explanation for why the NYPD just sent out its dance team — because apparently, police departments have dance teams now — to perform on television. Watch:
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You&#8217;ll find various responses to this video online in which people try to find the silver lining here. &#8220;At least they&#8217;re getting exercise in,&#8221; is one of the common refrains. You might also say that, hey, they’re just trying to give the female cops something to do. 
But really there&#8217;s only one bit of good news in all of this, especially when you look at the Fani Willis case — which is that the mediocre morons who have power over us are extremely easy to expose. They&#8217;ll go on television and reveal how incompetent and corrupt they are. They just can&#8217;t help themselves, that&#8217;s the good news. The bad news is that there&#8217;s an endless supply of these amoral half wits out there, waiting to replace their bosses when they&#8217;re gone. And in some cases they&#8217;re even worse, somehow, than the failures they replace. Get rid of Paul Howard, and you&#8217;ll get Fani Willis. This is the pattern. 
What happens when you get rid of Fani Willis? Very soon, for better or worse, we might find out.

Fulton County Court Holds Fani Willis Misconduct Hearing

We’re Living Under A Tyranny Of Mediocre Morons

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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a bias in the brain in which you tend to think you are better at something than you actually are. The Dunning-Kruger effect is widely held across a variety of skill sets. In the United States, it&#8217;s generally held by a lot of people who think they are smarter than they actually are — but it&#8217;s particularly held by people who have been made untouchable by the system.
Now, if you&#8217;ve been made untouchable by the system and you&#8217;ve just been rising through the ranks for years based on your intersectional identity, you are going to think you are much better and more competent than you actually are.
This is the story of Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney.
She&#8217;s the person who&#8217;s brought charges against former President Trump based on supposed violation of RICO law, which really does not apply in this particular case. It&#8217;s certainly a legal stretch, but she&#8217;s been attempting to make a name for herself. If she can get Trump on a state charge, he can&#8217;t pardon himself if he is president of the United States.
Things started to fall apart for Willis over the last couple of months. She was a heroine in the media. She was a “hard-charging prosecutor”; she was going to finally get Trump.
But, as it turns out, she is a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect — but with the intersectional twist because she apparently thought she could get away with literally anything.
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Before Willis was elected, she <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1758225900267536722" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> why exactly she should be the D.A.: “Because they deserve a D.A. that won&#8217;t have sex with his employees; because they deserve a D.A. that won&#8217;t put money in their own pocket when it should go to benefit children, because we deserve better.”
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THROWBACK: Fani Willis on why the people of Fulton County should support her for District Attorney:
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As we found out, the Fulton County people did not actually receive that D.A.
According to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/02/15/fulton-county-da-fani-willis-testifies-in-evidentiary-hearing-heres-what-she-said/?sh=79a485d410c2">Forbes</a>:
<blockquote>Willis faces accusations she violated state conflict of interest and public money laws over claims from a group of Trump’s co-defendants that she engaged in an “improper, clandestine personal relationship.” Court documents have also shown Wade and Willis traveled together on two vacations, while state records reveal Wade earned more than $650,000 working with Willis. </blockquote>
On Thursday, there was an evidentiary hearing in court in which the defendants asked that Willis essentially be removed from the case for conflict of interest and she, for some odd reason, decided she was going to testify. This came after she had basically destroyed her own timeline. 
The question was whether she had hired this guy because he was super-competent and she had paid him and then they fell in love and they started going on cruises and having sex and all the rest — or whether she had known the guy for a while and decided to bring in her lover to pay him state taxpayer dollars and then go on vacations with state taxpayer dollars, not based on the interest of the people of Fulton County, but based on her own personal interest in the guy she was sleeping with.
One of Willis&#8217; employees and pals explained that Willis was actually in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade as early as 2019.
There are two issues in this evidentiary hearing.
Issue number one is when Willis started dating Wade and if it was earlier than the appointment, which suggests, of course, that she appointed him because she was sleeping with him.
Issue number two is, even if she was dating him after they got together on the case, was she then expending taxpayer dollars on him in ways she wouldn&#8217;t on any other employee?
Willis failed on both accounts. The court then called Wade who tried to deny he was dating Willis in 2020. Instead, he tried to claim that because he had a form of cancer, it was not possible for him to have a romantic relationship because he was trying to isolate from others.
It didn&#8217;t go over amazingly well in court after he was questioned. He finally admitted he actually, indeed, could have been dating her and was paid for a bunch of stuff that was really not appropriate.
At that point, Willis decided she had to fight.
Every defense counsel will tell you, “Do not get on the stand.” Very few people are good witnesses in their own defense. They&#8217;re really bad witnesses.
Willis happens to suffer from two things: One, she&#8217;s not telling the truth, and two, she happens to be one of the most off-putting witnesses in human history. The Dunning-Kruger effect that I discussed? That fact was obviously present with Willis. It was almost beyond comprehension.
This lady thinks she&#8217;s good at her job, that she is convincing, and comes off as honest, forthright, and righteous. Yet she comes off as precisely the opposite. Instead, she comes off as obnoxious, lying, and scheming, and it&#8217;s really bad. So Willis truly blew up on the stand.
She started off by suggesting that making her even answer questions is contrary to democracy, which is weird because it is well within the boundaries of democracy to ask whether the D.A. who is prosecuting Trump for political reasons is, in fact, a corrupt person who&#8217;s having sex with the other prosecutor and paying him vast quantities of taxpayer cash while taking vacations with him.
She made the claim that the defendant&#8217;s interests are contrary to democracy — the claim being that the defendants tried to overturn an election; therefore, she is completely scot-free on the question of whether she is, in fact, a corrupt public servant.
She went full-out Al Pacino in “And Justice for All”: “You&#8217;re out of order! The whole trial is out of order!”
In her testimony, she <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-ny-hush-money-case-misconduct-hearing-fani-willis-live-updates-rcna138597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>: “I object to you getting records. You&#8217;ve been intrusive into people&#8217;s personal lives. You&#8217;re confused. You think I&#8217;m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I&#8217;m not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.”
It&#8217;s an evidentiary hearing to determine whether she should be disqualified. So technically, in this particular portion of the trial, her actions are on trial.
Brazenness is not going to substitute for actually being innocent.
And it got worse and worse for her. She started yelling that the media lied about her, which is weird because, again, she&#8217;s the one who apparently lied a lot.
She said the money she gave Wade “&#8230;was never that serious. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever handed him more than $2,500 in a reimbursement. So we&#8217;re not talking about $20,000 in cash. I don&#8217;t have $20,000 in cash right now. The most I ever gave him, I know I gave him $2,500 when we went to Belize because we went to one hotel and then we went to a second hotel. That $2,500 I actually gave him while we were still in Belize. I know that the Aruba trip, the one that you describe with his mom, I think I gave him about $2,000 for that trip.”
She was asked why she paid him back in cash. There&#8217;s no record of her actually reimbursing him for half of the travel.
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What she did looks like a kickback. If I hire my wife or anyone else who is in a close personal relationship with me and pay them a lot of money, and then we take cruises together that the other person is paying for, the idea is that I&#8217;m supposed to pay for my half to demonstrate that I&#8217;m not actually stealing money from the government.
But there&#8217;s no record of her having paid Wade back. Instead, she said she paid him back in cash. She was asked why exactly she paid Wade back in cash all the time and where it came from. She replied, “I do know where it came from. It came from my sweat and tears.”
Trump&#8217;s attorney is going to be able to make the very obvious and clear case that Willis ginned up this entire case so she could, in high-profile fashion, hire the guy she was sleeping with so she could go on an expensive cruise with him.
Even on MSNBC, analyst Caroline Polisi <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/game-over-msnbc-legal-analyst-declares-fani-willis-case-against-trump-dead-after-shocking-courtroom-revelationjw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that the case against Trump is possibly dead in the water. “Don&#8217;t let the legalese fool you. This is epic. This is monumental. If things are going in the direction we think, Fani Willis lied to the court, it&#8217;s game over for her. She will be disqualified.”
Fani Wallis got her wish. Donald Trump made her famous. Donald Trump made her prominent. Donald Trump may end up putting her in jail, which is just hysterical.
So we bid a fond farewell to Fani Willis whose career is basically over because, once again, the Dunning-Kruger effect is undefeated for a lot of people.

Fani Willis And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

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