Fani Got Paddled

I’ve practiced law as a trial attorney for 30 years. I’ve examined hundreds of witnesses.  I don’t recall anyone being as bad on the witness stand as Fulton County DA Fani Willis was on Thursday.

It wasn’t on St Valentine’s Day, but it was a massacre just the same. On February 15, 2024, Fulton County DA, Fani Willis took the stand to refute the accusations of unethical and illegal behavior in her prosecution of Donald Trump, including appointing her secret lover Nathan Wade as special prosecutor. Instead of assuaging concerns, she managed to commit professional suicide. While on the stand, Willis did everything a witness is instructed not to do. She was rude, and condescending and added testimony that the examiner didn’t ask for. She was combative and ill-prepared. She threw papers and argued with the examiner and the judge. In short, she was a mess. 

Fani inadvertently admitted to what appears to be clear violations of campaign finance laws and potential income tax evasion. She claimed that she used cash for just about every transaction including “paying back” her boyfriend-prosecutor. But “oddly” she kept no record of those transactions. She admitted to taking cash out of her campaign account taking that cash home and co-mingling it with her other piles of cash. None of added up. Everyone with two snapping synapses could see that she was lying. 

Her testimony and that of her “special prosecutor” Nathan Wade were embarrassing at best and more likely admissions of illegal and unethical behavior. Either way, Willis and Wade have a few things in common. They both seem to have an allergy to telling the truth. They both love cash, hoarding that cash and they hate to keep records.

And, they both appear to be incompetent at their jobs which may play to the benefit of Donald Trump. Both Willis and Wade are the types of attorneys that I love to have on the other side. 

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