Attorney Ashleigh Merchant said she was surprised Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand during the proceedings over whether she should be disqualified from former President Trump’s Georgia election interference case and said the DA had no proof to back up her defense.
Merchant told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday Wills didn’t bring anything to support her claims when she testified.
“What surprised me was that she didn’t bring anything to actually back it up,” she said. “So if someone had accused me of wrongdoing, I’m going to bring my phone. I’m going to bring my text messages. I’m going to bring my bank records. So that surprised me that she didn’t bring any actual proof. We just were stuck with her word that she paid back these transactions in cash. I would have brought transaction slips. I would have brought a lot of information if I had planned on taking the stand.”
Merchant also suggested Willis had been watching the proceedings and knew exactly when to come in before she took the stand.
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“We’re not supposed to be watching the proceedings as a witness when they’re going on. The fact that she knew exactly when to come in. You know, I got to ask her about that on the stand, but it appeared as though she had been watching the proceedings. So that was a little bit surprising as well,” Merchant continued.
Judge Scott McAfee said Friday in an order that Willis must either withdraw herself and her team from the…
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