Whatever goodwill Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had with people who do not have strong feelings either way about Donald Trump was squandered in an Atlanta courtroom by Willis’s absurd and embarrassing spectacle of unprofessional and childish behavior by someone who is supposed to be a professional, fair-minded prosecutor.
Rather than acknowledging she used bad judgment in having an affair with her special prosecutor, she put on the cloak of righteous indignation. Rather than concede that she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar, she picked a courtroom fight with a lawyer who is simply defending her client as the Constitution requires.
Although she claimed otherwise, Willis entered the courtroom obviously agitated and gave the impression she had been watching the testimony of her paramour and “special prosecutor” Nathan Wade. She was visibly angry when she suddenly abandoned her objection to giving testimony.
Willis did herself no favors in the court of public opinion when she gave non-responsive answers to simple questions posed by defense attorneys. Willis did herself no favors when she forced the judge to repeatedly admonish her to rein in her repeated outbursts from the witness stand.
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There’s much for Willis to be embarrassed by. A former employee testified that Willis and Wade’s affair began long before she took office — thus implying Willis lied to the court. She traveled to Belize with Wade, but she did not know what continent it is on. She testified she took out a large amount of money on her first campaign, and kept some of that cash (whatever that means, it sounds bad). Willis said she was unaware she is obligated to disclose any gifts or personal relationships with people doing business with the county. And the list goes on.
But the biggest embarrassment for Fani Willis is the cash. The big issue that the defense needed to prove is that Willis was personally enriched financially by virtue of Wade…
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