Fani Willis’ Crushed Credibility
Fulton County DA Fani Willis has a lot in common with the man she’s prosecuting. The latest Jerry-Springer style detail from the motion to disqualify her from the election-crime prosecution of former President Donald Trump: Willis is accused of a sexual tryst with now-Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade in her private law office sometime between 2018 and 2019.
And texts from Wade’s former law partner, Terrence Bradley, validate the claim (which they deny) that the Willis-Wade affair began long before Willis hired Wade as a special prosecutor for her RICO case against the exprez, despite Wade having no experience in RICO cases, nor even in felony ones.
Yet Wade billed the county almost $700,000 — at a rate far higher than the state’s leading RICO expert. Chunks of that windfall seemingly went to pay for Willis and Wade’s luxury vacations together.
(They both claim she paid her share of those expenses — with some of the thousands in cash she claims she keeps lying around at home. They have no receipts, and he can’t show what he did with the supposed cash payments, either.)
Indeed, Willis has adopted the deny, deny, deny strategy across the board, including against mountains of cellphone data indicating Wade visited her at her condo late at night well before they now say the affair began, and before she hired him.
She’s also indulged in grandiloquent public whining about her sufferings and supposed persecution.
Hmmmmm, who does that remind us of ? Oh yeah, the guy she’s going after!
The merits of the Georgia case against Trump must be left to a jury to decide; that’s how it goes in America. But it’s now beyond clear that Willis has sacrificed all her professional credibility over a love affair and some small-ball, tawdry corruption.
If Democrats want to damn Trump for his character flaws, fine. But there’s an ugly (if hilarious) irony in the fact that, again and again, the tribunes of the people they summon up — from the felonious Michael Avenatti to slimy pathological liar Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to Willis herself — have zero character themselves.