Fani Willis Shows Her Fanny.
In perhaps the worst testimony of a corrupt government official in American history, Fulton County DA Willis showed the world the face of today's Democrat "public servant."
On Thursday and Friday of this week, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott F. McAfee held a hearing on several defendants Motion To Disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis in her RICO case against them for supposedly attempting to “overturn the 2020 election.” As per usual, the partisan Left ignored reality and instantly launched a narrative designed to convince the public that still listens to them that the motion was baseless. They also, to the extent possible, attempted to deflect attention to the potential scandal by claiming it was racially motivated. After all, under the same set of facts, no defendant would attempt to recuse a white prosecutor or smear her in the court of public opinion in an attempt to secure an outright dismissal or a more favorable result at trial.
In fact, the hearing provided bombshell evidence of the decay of our governmental structure and culture. Too many public officials believe their positions put them beyond questioning. Willis is just the latest prominent example.
As has become far too common, the “Press” was uncurious of the facts, instead choosing to boost and outright cheer for their favored corrupt partisan “public” official, regardless of what might have occurred, or was occurring. Thus, for example, media outlets ran with headlines praising Fani Willis’ testimony on Thursday as “stunning” and “brave.”
To any rational observer, her testimony was as bad as it could have been. Honestly, in over twenty-six years of legal practice I cannot recall witnessing a worse witness, especially considering the stakes and her training.
The serious allegations called for a calm and polite explanation and rebuttal. Ms. Willis was neither. Indeed, she was the precise opposite of both. As a consequence, the serious allegations remained, but were enhanced by evidence that the District Attorney’s attitude that demonstrated that she is precisely the type of person that would engage in the unethical conduct alleged. Proof positive that her testimony was off putting to rational observers came swiftly as her legal team, which had originally planned to call to the stand on Friday, chose not to.
The most important aspect of Willis’ testimony was not in revealing her as an unpleasant person, but the fact that she plainly believes that she is beyond questioning. As she exclaimed, “I’m not on trial.” You can watch her make the claim here:
In a truly free country, public officials are always on trial. And those that take on the unprecedented decision to attempt to jail a former President and leading candidate to the current Administration over actions he took under an existing law permitting challenges to presidential certification in the Electoral College should especially on guard that their behavior should be beyond reproach. Say what you may about Jack Smith, but no one has claimed that he is personally benefitting from an affair with an unqualified underling on his staff whom he hired.
Willis’ attitude that she should not be questioned, however, represents not just a departure from the understood American system of government, but an attitude held by far too many Democrat politicians and democrat “voters” these days. Indeed, it is this belief system that likely led Ms. Willis to do the things that she has been accused of. After all, she is entitled to give her friends and lovers special appointments because . . . she is special . . . because she is an important politician . . . in an important position in the government—people with this mindset not only do not agree that they are public “servants,” they cannot even comprehend the concept. For them, the entire point of government is to enrich yourself and your friends and punish your enemies. Ms. Willis likely is doing all three.
Setting aside the fact that her attitude and demeanor were powerful evidence of her guilt, so too was the physical evidence that the “Media” purposefully ignored. Setting aside the fact that her former lover Mr. Wade was not qualified to be appointed as a special prosecutor, the amounts she has paid him to date are obscene. Despite the fact that any rational person would view his payment as evidence of guilt, Willis’ legal team actually attached a few of his invoices to their filing in opposition to the Motion To Disqualify.
Mr. Wade (and likely others) have made a tremendous amount of money on this show trial, all at taxpayer expense. Surely any rational person would appreciate that this appears to be evidence of a potential corrupt motivation for bringing the unprecedented case.
Exhibit 3 to Ms. Willis’ response attaches a few of Mr. Wade invoices from 2023. In August of 2023, Mr. Wade alone billed Fulton County $34,250 at $250 an hour for 142 hours (he also claimed to have worked an additional 22 hours that he chose not to bill the County for). August of 2023 had 184 workable hours, if one worked eight hours a day during business hours. Similarly, Mr. Wade charged Fulton County $34,250 for 150 hours in September, 2023 (he chose not to bill for another 16 hours according to his invoice). September had 168 workable hours.
Mr. Wade claims to have spent 164 of 184 workable hours in August devoted solely to the Trump RICO case. He claimed to have devoted 166 hours of 168 workable hours in September to the matter. Presumably Mr. Wade has other matters. If so, these numbers seem unusual. Court dockets are public records and an enterprising reporter (if they still existed) could look into whether Mr. Wade was involved in other litigation during this time.
On the stand, Mr. Wade did not make the same mistake Ms. Willis did, so his testimony was far better. He came across in a pleasant manner, calmly and, for the most part, politely answering questions about what plainly could be suspicious activity. The contrast with Ms. Willis was stark.
However, he could not escape the fact that it certainly appeared as if he had paid for elaborate and expensive travel for Ms. Wade in exchange for the extremely profitable contracts that she had rewarded him with (the Trump RICO case is one of five cases for which Mr. Wade has been hired by Fani Willis). Profitable would be an understatement. If Mr. Wade’s August and September, 2023 invoices are any guide, the Trump RICO case alone could have paid him over $400,000. According to indeed.com, the average attorney in Georgia makes $101,406 per year.
Wade and Willis attempted to circumvent the evidence against them by claiming that he was hired before the affair started and that Ms. Willis always paid him back for the charges on his card in cash. Ms. Wade claimed not to have a checking account. She also had no explanation of where she acquired tens of thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollar in cash. Fortunately for Ms. Willis, her father was a terrific witness and gave plausibility to the claim that she had been taught both to hoard cash, and have it with her at all times.
By the end of the hearing, there certainly was sufficient evidence of suspicious activity that an honest public official seeking to promote the rule of law should recuse voluntarily. Even if a technical violation of ethics rules has been established, considering the unprecedented nature of the case, the public deserves a prosecution team with the cleanest slate possible. No matter which manner one interprets the evidences revealed in the record and at the hearing, that is not the case here.
The bigger challenge the hearing revealed was what type of country we wish to be. Willis and her supporters in the “Press” and Democrat Party desire a system where public officials may not be questioned, even when they take it upon themselves to advance unprecedented and unique “legal” theories and prosecutions. That not only is not the rule of law, it certainly is not American Constitutional law.
It is democracy, however. Well, a form of democracy in any event. Readers that are middle aged such as myself will recall the term “the tyranny of the majority.” Ms. Willis was elected, so she entitled to do with the reins of government what she wishes—she is “not on trial.” The rest of Americans not named Trump better hope they are not either any time soon.