02/16/2024
As a veteran criminal defense attorney for over 36 years who watched what went on at the Hearing today on Trump’s Motion to Disqualify Atlanta district attorney Fani Willis, I must conclude that she should be removed from the case forthwith, she should be investigated by the Georgia Bar for her courtroom antics and dishonesty, and the Georgia Attorney General should investigate her for Perjury.
A prosecutor’s first obligation is to seek justice and he or she must also scrupulously follow the rules and the law. Contrary to these legal obligations, Willis hired her lover Nathan Wade, a person with no prosecutorial experience and little if any criminal defense experience, to prosecute Donald Trump. Wade has been paid in excess of 600k in fees to date. A very credible witness testified today that the Willis/Wade romance began prior to his being hired contrary to the sworn testimony given by Willis and Wade. Willis and Wade were grilled about all of the expensive trips they took after she hired him and they both testified that she paid him back in cash. Yeah right. However this is all undocumented - no withdrawal slips, no deposit slips and not one iota of corroborating testimony. Go figure.
On the witness stand, Willis, an officer of the court, and the person in charge of all criminal prosecutions in the county, showed blatant contempt for the court. She lied, dodged questions, ignored questions, refused to answer questions and was shouting at times. At one point, Judge Mcafee warned Willis that he would have to strike her testimony from the record if she refused to answer the questions as asked. The judge then called a 5 minute recess and when the Hearing resumed, the Judge said: “You all know what professionalism looks like; we all know what decorum looks like.”
Willis should disqualify herself from the case and resign from office immediately. She is obligated to adhere to the highest standards of law but rather she turned the Hearing into a circus with her lies, her outbursts, her dodging, her weaving, and her total lack of decorum and professionalism. She knows the rules yet abused and violated them. She cannot justifiably expect any witness in her future prosecutions to be honest, direct, and respectful to the court when she herself did not live up to those standards as a witness in court. If there are 2 sets of rules, there are no rules. She is undermining our entire judicial system by knowingly and willingly abusing it. Disqualify her now, file a bar complaint against her now, and begin a perjury investigation against her now.
