ESPN host Stephen A. Smith says a Black author “should be ashamed of herself” after writing a Newsweek opinion piece criticizing Georgia district attorney Fani Willis’ demeanor while responding during her testimony last week, referring to the Fulton County prosecutor as “defiant” and “childish” in the op-ed.
Author and conservative podcast host Kira Davis penned the opinion piece for Newsweek titled, “Fani Willis Is an Embarrassment to Black People. She’s the Proof That DEI Only Hurts Us.”
Willis last week took to the stand to answer questions and defend herself against misconduct allegations regarding her personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade during an evidentiary hearing as lawyers attempted to get Willis disqualified from the racketeering case accusing Donald Trump and some of his allies of interfering in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.
In the opinion piece, Davis writes that Willis’ prominent position and the historic nature of the Trump case “put her in an elite class most Black people will never even dream of reaching.”
She writes, “One would expect such a person to be polished and classy, and able to remain so even while responding to an uncomfortable barrage of questions on the witness stand.
“Instead, what we got was a defiant, childish, sour woman who spoke with the sophistication of [a] teenage girl at her first college party,” Davis said.
“It wasn’t simply that she sounded angry—she also sounded stupid,” she continued.
The Newsweek op-ed then shows a video clip posted to X from a part of Willis’ testimony in which she states, “When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that … I just have cash in my house. I don’t have as much today.”
During tense moments of Willis’ testimony, which included her asserting that she’s “not on trial,” the district attorney fended off accusations…
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