Trump Georgia Case: DA Willis Loses Temper, Receives Warning From Judge in Explosive Testimony
Conflict of interest is a big deal. There’s a reason why workplaces require you to report personal relationships.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis lost her temper on the stand as she faces allegations of financially benefiting from hiring Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the case against former President Donald Trump and others.
Trump’s co-defendant, Michael Roman, said Willis should be disqualified. It’s called a conflict of interest.
Willis’s body language said it all before she took the stand: rage, nervousness, and trembling.
Willis sparred with defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant from the start, leading Judge Scott McAfee to call for a five-minute recess.
The testimony took a major turn when Willis’s former friend said Wade and Willis began their relationship in 2019 and not 2022. See, if it began in 2022, it wouldn’t seem as suspicious because Willis charged Trump in 2021.
But 2019…that is something else. Willis and Wade also didn’t disclose their relationship:
Roman alleged in court filings last month that Willis should be disqualified from the case, claiming that she financially benefited from hiring Wade because of their personal relationship, and said she had “some choice words” about Roman’s motion, calling some of the allegations “dishonest” and “extremely offensive.” At one point, Willis held up a printed copy of the allegations against her in both hands and turned to the judge yelling, “this is a lie!”
Willis also called defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant’s interests “contrary to democracy.”
“It is a LIE! It is a LIE!”
The Fani Willis courtroom meltdown was the hit romantic comedy America needed. This is better than anything Hollywood could script 🤣pic.twitter.com/dY7tWvexNy
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 15, 2024
Then Willis said she did not know that employees have to disclose personal relationships:
MERCHANT: “Are you aware that Fulton County requires you to disclose any relationship with someone that you’re doing business with?”
WILLIS: “I’m not aware. And I know often that things are confused with state constitutional officers and county, but I’m not aware.”
MERCHANT: “Okay. So it’s not your — so, it’s your understanding that you don’t have a duty to disclose —“
UNKNOWN: “She’s answered that question, let’s keep going.”
(Again, this is NORMAL in any workplace, especially between bosses and those who work under them. It avoids conflict of interest and potential lawsuits citing harassment, discrimination, etc.)
Fani Willis claims she wasn't aware Fulton County requires her to disclose any personal relationship with someone her office is doing business with pic.twitter.com/lkqL8GAhwF
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) February 15, 2024
Then there’s the money for the vacations, trips, etc. This is another potential conflict of interest.
If they were together then why would Willis have to reimburse him? This is weird, especially since the reimbursement came in cash:
MERCHANT: “The money that you paid Mr. Wade, the cash, in October of 2022, you do not know where that money came from?”
WILLIS: “I do know where it came from. It came from my sweat and tears.”
MERCHANT: “You know which job it came from? Did it come from Fulton County or did it come from a private job?”
WILLIS: “It came from — I’m not a — what are you talking about? So, it could have come from a private job, because before I was D.A., I was in private practice. So I earned money during that time period that’s probably in there.”
MERCHANT: “You don‘t know?”
WILLIS: “It could have — what do you mean I don‘t know where it came from?”
Lawyer: "You have no proof of any reimbursement [to Wade for vacations] because it's all cash?
Fani: "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact. Are you telling me I'm lying?"
Lawyer: "I'm asking if you have any proof."
Fani: "The proof is what I just told you." pic.twitter.com/JhD5iFaYxA
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 15, 2024
This is a little suspicious.
Hold up- did Fani Willis just admit under oath to pocketing cash from her first campaign & stashing it away at home for personal use?
WILLIS: “When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash from that…” pic.twitter.com/vb8WgiuHC7
— Ryan S. Powers (@RyanSPowers) February 15, 2024
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Coleridge, who wrote op-eds for a couple of decades, said that a conflict of interest is the pulley on which good character is hoist into public view.
“Again, this is NORMAL in any workplace, especially between bosses and those who work under them.)”
Fani was naturally assuming that such things don’t apply to Democrats, same as everything else.
I have seen in several places that Willis is said to have a net worth of $8M including real estate holdings in UT, HI and GA.
She has always worked in the public sector, how is this possible?
She listens to Dave Ramsey?
We do know her behavior is tame compared to the average urban politician, right? America is a cesspool of corruption
Is the word “uppity” still usable in this day and age?
Fat Fani Willis mad is kind of funny, just wait until it dawns on her that no one cares if she is mad.
She is the definition of an angry black woman.
Correction: entitled angry black woman.
BBIC
Actually a lot of people were very impressed by her performance including the fact she got mad. Being angry about people acting like d heads humanised her.
She’s running an insane Soviet show trial of President Trump, trying to steal the 2024 election and throw him in jail over a case that is as ridiculous as it gets and that should have been thrown out the minute she filed with the court and she should have been censured for even trying to bring it.
Fanny is living up to her daddy’s wish that she should help destroy America. Daddy was a Black Panther and Fanny is the Black Panter.
“Daddy was a Black Panther and Fanny is the Black Panter.”
Yeah, but the trial’s about the Black Paramour who got into her Black Pants.
So, does that make her a Black Pantser?
😉
no, her Tweetie Pie is the black pantser.
you owe me a keyboard ….
at breakfast no less …
😀
Sounds like Black Cougar would be the more apt description. What does her employee lover see in her other than job advancement.
Typical lack of impulse control.
Meanwhile, up in Noon Yawk, Trump and his two adult sons just got whacked by Judge Erdogan.
Mate the evidence against Trump is overwhelming. Stop making excuses. You just don’t like your favoured dictator being held to account
Reply to Bot E:
“Mate the evidence against Trump is overwhelming.”
Sure, but the evidence is so overwhelming, you’d think that somewhere in there, there’d be evidence of a crime committed by Trump. But there isn’t.
So what crime did Trump commit?
There was no complainant.
Her behavior is right in line with an entitled BBIC. If you have never dealt with one then you are missing a treat. I’ve quit a couple of jobs rather than deal with them although I managed to get one fired over false allegations. If you go to interview for a job take a close work at the supervisors first and walk away if one shows up.
Been there, done that.
Ahh… yup.
You know it doesn’t matter what others have done or gotten away with? This bitch is being judged by her own actions.
Fanny Willis did a great rendition of your standard Hollywood “black lady in charge with a mouth and not much else”. It was pathetic – the parts that I watched, but I could bring up 100 movies that she could have been cast for in Hollywood’s insane DIE pretend-world.
I thought the judge was a complete dirtbag, too. He seemed to come down on the defense questioners far more than on the nonresponsive and rambling witnesses. Fanny’s attitude would have gotten her a contempt of court citation in any other context, I think.
It seems that Wade enjoyed saying “intercourse” on the stand. I thought he was going to pull out his wallet and show the court some pictures.
None of this was helped by the fact that the defense counsel didn’t seem very good or nearly as prepared as they should have been. This wasn’t rocket surgery. It was just taking apart two low-IQ scumbags on the stand.
Amen!
So, does that make her a Black Pantser?
😉Fanni’s Fanny hit the Fann!
She is one unhinged bitch.
I watched a few minutes here and there throughout the day. I was blown away by Willis’s behavior. I guess she gets a break because being combative, confrontational and just plain rude seems to be the mark of a modern WOC (I’ll use a Woke acronym to cover my a**). The judge has to be an idiot to allow more than a minute of it.
Or the fix is in.
I hope I am wrong, but either the judge gave her a long leash with which to hang herself …
… or (and I have a bad feeling about this) there will a lot of pearl clutching and hand wringing but the trial will go on as before.
Her behavior was repulsive and offensive to any decent and just courtroom and not in the least credible … but if the judge comes in with a “well they didn’t prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt” attitude anything is possible
They don’t need to prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt. Ethics violations are that you can’t allow even the appearance of impropriety and they have more than covered that
I had the feeling that the judge was letting her talk under the theory that she could either hang herself or justify her actions. It was clear that she wasn’t doing the latter and the judge let her keep talking. I thought it was a good call.
What’s not cited in the Tweets in this blog post is when Attorney Craig Gillen was forced, due to Willis paramour Wade’s evasions regarding a timeline of his affair with Willis, to ask Wade whether he was aware that March 2023 came before June 2023. It was priceless.
Re your first paragraph: I tend to agree.
No, the reason he let her run his courtroom was because he is up for re-election in November in an almost all-black county. Willis also has a tax lien on her home that she refuses to pay off but instead takes expensive trips and vacations. She will be left on this case but her BF will be dropped.
Hang herself with what lol. You have to have an actual conflict which was demonstrated to not be the case. The accusations against her hinge on financial incentives not a relationship. The whole thing was a circus
How was it demonstrated? Nobody believes this business about her reimbursing him in cash.
And no, you don’t need an actual conflict, just the reasonable perception of one.
I was waiting for the angry-black-woman act. I’m surprised it took this long.
“angry militant black woman” act
How apparent is it that the angry militant black woman act she used on the stand was not the first time she did it to get her way. It’s a default setting for some to try and intimidate someone into giving in.
John Clifford Floyd III to Fani Taifa Willis:
“You is pretty, you is smart, you can be anything you want to be. Don’t let whitey hold you back. When someone questions your ethics, call them a racist and a liar.”
Paraphrasing of course.
True Dat. Some may scoff but this midwit road it all the way to DA. Unfortunately I think she hit the ceiling and that dog won’t hunt anymore.
After that episode, she reminds me of the militant “Where’s my mo’fkn’ Big Mac? followed by the total destruction of the McDonald’s countertop, with the added throw of the extra large orange soda at the employees. The only thing missing was the Super Bowl level celebration twerk.
Because this is televised, does this make Fani eligible for an Oscar nomination? If so, she should consider a side-to-side neck bobble to really sell her indignation.
Ooooo…the chicken neck of destruction.
No. Oscars are for movies. I think you may mean Emmy. Or the Golden GLOB.
The Peoples Democratic Republic Choice Awards.
Fani Willis must sense she is about to be disqualified and maybe disbarred. Could it be that today’s performance was her audition for a guest contributor role on ABC’s The View?
Fani deals almost exclusively in cash …. Like a drug dealer. I predict she’ll get a sponsor contract to represent some no-tell motel.
“[Krystal] Matthews also cites the need for “some folks that can wear all black at night and take they f****** yard-signs down when they- when they sleeping” and goes on to bemoan her paltry campaign contributions, asking “Where the f*** is my black people with money? I don’t care about no dope money! Give me that dope boy money!”
“S***, where the f**king dope? Where the duffle bag boys? Get you- find me somebody from your family that don’t even know you donating to my campaign and put that s*** under they names,” Matthews told the inmate.”
I just looked that up. Oh, boy. She would fit in nicely with the Hamas Squad.
From the way she was behaving, I thought she was about to take out a couple of ball bearings and start ranting about strawberries.
“I understood that reference.”
“I kid you not”
Spitting beer. Well done
Does she have those Yellow Stain Blues?
She is a woman “of color;” ethical considerations, model codes of professional conduct, basic notions of integrity and fairness do not apply!
Willis shows us that much-vaunted “black girl voodoo.”
Willis should go into business with Stacey Abrams and Claudine Gay — “Black Girl Hustlers, Inc.”
Fani willis is a documented racist who blames all her problems in life on white people. Woke trash.
Well, her daddy made a cottage industry of blaming the white man for all black problems. Race hustlers and grifters in that family.
I’m too lazy to look it up, so let me guess: he was some sort of a reverend?
Black Panther, then lawyer. For a time, dated Angela Davis.
Of course not. 🙂
But as policemen and prosecutors say time and again, lack of knowledge of the law is no excuse. Moreover, “lack of knowledge ” of: the law, of government regulations, or of government policy is a rather lame excuse for an attorney. Knowing those nitty-gritty details is an attorney’s job.
Perhaps her reply is that conducting a show trial against a political opponent trumps knowledge of the above.
I’ve been working for Washington State for 17 years. I can’t recall how many times I’ve taken “ethics training” even though I’ve never held a position in which I could even imagine myself in a situation in which “ethics” would have to be considered. I simply don’t have sort of contacts with contractors and vendors that make the training necessary for me. Her arguments don’t fly with anyone who has had experience similar to mine while in government employ.
Ignorance of the law is an excuse… if you’re a cop.
Heien v. North Carolina…
“Officers have no specialized expertise in evaluating law, while ambiguities in the criminal code are typically resolved (by courts) in favor of criminal defendants, or struck down for vagueness…. The result is a system in which “ignorance of the law is no excuse” for citizens facing conviction, but police can use their own ignorance about the law to their advantage.”
Id expect nothing less for our Revenue Enhancers.
Let’s see her mandatory training records. I bet there is one regarding ethics and conflicts of interest.
Never fear the white “black robe”….used to be called judges….but no longer…from the supreme on down…
Bought corporate hot air bags….self serving this banana republic…
He’s going to slap her & tap her…
What a sh*t show….
Long story short, fani willis is below average attractive black woman who had to pay for sex with black man who is more attractive than she normally dates. Guilty as charged. Her case is wrecked.
But she did an interview running for office where she explicitly talked about it with the last DA, I think it was.
I can’t see how the judge at bare minimum doesn’t remove her and Wade from these cases.
I’d also like to see the judge just remove everything from her entire office and hand it off to another prosecutor to look at.
He should hand it to the reddest County in Georgia
I live in one of the 5 reddest counties in Georgia…we don’t want that sh!t$show here.
Ashleigh Merchant didn’t do a great job today, but Fani did enough self inflicted damage to make up for it.
In a normal fair court, today was game over.
But honestly don’t trust the system one bit anymore and would be surprised but not shocked if the judge did less than is required and expected at this stage.
But this should be game, set and match for Trump’s team.
So was the supposed cash for “reimbursement” or some sort of stud fees?
This is someone who brazenly thinks the rules don’t apply to her.
The “I didn’t know I had to disclose” defense doesn’t work for someone with her credentials. That barely flies with a recently minted JD.
The answer borders on contempt of court. She expects the judge to believe her?
Not sure it’s any better for Fani that she may have been telling the truth.
I believe that she does have contempt for the court. Interestingly enough, her contempt is adding to the contempt of all citizens for the Judicial system.
Subotai Bahadur
Ignorance of the law is no excuse unless you are “an elderly man with poor memory.”
In the DEI utopia, people like this will be in charge of you.
You have just raised the most important point of the Obama/Biden/Harris Administration. It’s terrifying and true.
I think they already are, at least the schools, the government and the media and Hollywood
I’m so old. I remember all white families in the movies. And on television for that matter…
She didn’t call Wade an employee she called him an agent in order to try and skirt the failure to report the relationship
I assume tbe judge has employees to supervise, will be interesting if he gives this defense any credibility. If he does, he loses his.
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me
Well Played!
Stop teasing Mary.
The real problem here is that if Fani is taken off the case, who will accept responsibility for continuing to polish the turd? Fani was selected because she’s unethical. Only an unethical prosecutor is capable of conducting a prosecution such as that of Trump. So, who do they have on deck?
It does put them on the horns of a dilemma. If she avoids being removed and stays on the prosecution of Trump I think her credibility with many independent voters is shot. And in the end that’s what the “legal” proceeding is about, a show trial to make Trump look like a criminal. So the perception of her integrity might just matter.
No, she was selected because someone thought the Melanin Shield of Invincibility backed by BBIC would power through. Times have shifted from St Floyd. She just hasn’t realized it yet
After watching some of that insane entitled crazy ladies testimony and Wades silly evasiveness the judge should remove both from the case, refer them to the State Bar for discipline, the State should remove Fani from office and the entire case be taken out of Fulton County into a different one and started over if the new prosecutor want’s to do it.
Both of their conduct but especially hers was appalling. She got caught and started the act. We will see if it works as well as it has apparently done for her in the past.
She presented a strong case as to why so many black men prefer to date and marry white or Asian men.
Did you intend to write ‘men’ as opposed to women or was that a fat finger typo?
Ha, it might be something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hujhuPJjHMk&t=312s
Uh…women? True. I’ve talked to a number of black men including one who dated my step daughter. “You seen those crazy ghetto black women”? was a common theme
Ok, correct me if I’m wrong. Willis admitted *under oath* to multiple violations of:
–Sexual harassment (dating a subordinate)
–Campaign finance violations (taking campaign funds out in cash with no records)
–Tax fraud (mixing personal and government expenses on a government card)
And absolutely nothing will be done on any of these?
Absolutely nothing. she is a Leftist protected class and above the law.
Subotai Bahadur
It seems just about every black attorney is an affirmative action joke given a pass through law school. My question is- do they hire others to take their bar exams, or are they simply fraudulently documented as having passed by corrupt boards?
been saying this since the 70s
I see why she has to pay for it
Fani broke Rule Number One: Do not piss off the judge,
Fani needed to persuade the judge to believe her cash hoard story.
Instead of being nice, Fani had to be cautioned twice about her conduct.
fani explained
if you tell a black women who she can and cant f
then kamalala would be out of a job
racism>>>fn while black
Sorry the “victim” and “race” cards aren’t working for you, Fatty, er, Fani.
“I’m not on trial here!” quoth Ms. Willis. Oh, yes you are, cupcake! Fanni’s the DEI scam made flesh; can’t swim and thrown in the deep end of the pool. Her “hostile witness” act should result in her (and her bought boyfriend’s) immediate removal from her show trial and immediate disbarment. Of course, in deep blue FulCo, anything is possible.
I don’t know if this is true (being ignorant on the subject of women’s fashion) but some observers have pointed out that Willis has her dress on backwards. If this is so it makes me wonder how the Left chose her to lead the lynch mob.
It’s an old stage magician’s trick. It lets her get out of it faster.
She didn’t have her BF help her get dressed in the morning. And yes, her dress is on backwards, the zipper is in the front, the ties for the waste are tied in front. She is truly shaken that someone gets to put her on the stand and ask her questions that she has to answer.
It’s not true. Front zippers have been an off-and-on style for decades. If you will notice, the dress is tailored: that is, somewhat form-fitting. The boobs are up north on one side of the body, and the butt is to the south, and on the other side. There is no way in hell that dress is reversible. That little zipper is likely to allow a slit in the front for the sake of cleavage.
It’s backwards. People have located the exact dress and posted front and back pics online.
A zipper as a fashion statement looks entirely different than one like we’re seeing here.
Not backwards but it sure isn’t good looking.
Jonathan Turley: Willis Goes Full Trump . . . and Got Away With It
(His headline says “may get”, but in the body he says she did get away with it.)
“Fani Willis claims she wasn’t aware Fulton County requires her to disclose any personal relationship with someone her office is doing business with….”
And why ~should~ she be aware of that? She’s only the District Attorney–the highest-ranking lawyer in the system. After all, it’s just a law. No reason the AG should know the laws of the state. If she doesn’t know that, how does she know about other laws? Did she graduate from a specialized law school in which it was only important to know certain laws?
I wonder who graded her bar exam….