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I last wrote on the Fani Willis Georgia debacle in March in Fani Willis: Choices and Cowardice.  To find every article in this series, enter “fani willis” in the SMM home page search bar. As regular readers know, that, and several other lawfare trials against Donald Trump is on hold until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity, probably sometime in June.  In the meantime, there have been many new developments, beginning with PJ Media:

Friday, a judge gave the elected DA her professional life back by giving her a choice to fire herself or her erstwhile boyfriend from the case. She chose to save herself. The case goes on.

There were serious allegations, arguments, and facts that Judge Scott McAfee had to ignore or militate against to come to this hackneyed ruling. As lawyer and social media legal resource, TechnoFog, put it, ‘Judge McAfee rules that only one potential liar can prosecute the case – but not both potential liars.’

Victoria Taft provides a list of Willis’ corruption McAfee had to ignore to give her an out and keep her bogus prosecution alive:

*Fani Willis is so crooked she ignored her prosecutor’s oath to act impartially out of “political ambition”

*Fani Willis is so crooked she broke her oath not take any money beyond her salary

*Fani Willis is so crooked her affair with her very special prosecutor is a conflict of interest

*Starting her affair was the “original sin” leading them to “perpetuate and conceal” their relationship

*Fani Willis is so crooked she got her office to lie for her about her affair

*Fani Willis’s Church Speech was meant to inject alleged racism “to deflect against her own misconduct”

*Fani’s very special prosecutor lied in his divorce documents and to the court about the nature of their relationship

*Fani and her very special prosecutor’s Biden White House meetings and communications are believed to be legal strategy sessions in coordination and haven’t been fully explained

*Fani is so crooked she filed a protective order against the very special prosecutor’s wife in his divorce case

*Fani is so crooked her office put people on the stand they knew would lie

*Fani is so crooked she broke the local ordinance about receiving gifts from contractors

*She broke the federal bribery statute by receiving gifts of more than $5,000

*Fani’s office is so crooked they never provided evidence to the contrary about the boss’s “invisible magic cash balancing” theory

*Fani wrote a book using secret grand jury testimony, documents, and recordings upon which she based her book, but denied a defense motion to see them

*Fani failed to disclose the gifts from her very special prosecutor as the law requires

*Fani lied on her disclosure forms to the county and state to evade detection of her affair

*Fani never got required county approval to name her boyfriend to the case

*Fani’s very special prosecutor “got on the stand and lied about lying in his interrogatories” about his divorce

*Fani and her office “did nothing to correct obviously perjured testimony”

*Fani violated her obligation as a prosecutor to serve her personal interests

*Fani violated rules of professional conduct when she threatened to criminally charge her very special prosecutor’s wife “to gain advantage in a civil case” (his divorce proceedings)

*Fani’s prosecutors were directed to hide the affair during the hearing by objecting on attorney-client privilege grounds on behalf of very special prosecutor Nathan Wade when they weren’t their rights to assert

The Georgia legislature is also investigating Willis:  

Georgia State Sen. Bill Cowsert claimed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had “no credibility” left after her former lover and special prosecutor Nathan Wade resigned from the Georgia election interference case last week. [skip]

Cowsert told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that Willis should resign from the case because “her credibility is shot.”

Judge McAfee denied a motion by attorneys for the many defendants to disqualify Willis from the case, but also approved their appeal:

A Georgia judge presiding over the 2020 election interference case against former President Trump on Wednesday announced that Trump and his co-defendants can appeal the order that denied the disqualification of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wills.

Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday issued a certificate of immediate review, allowing Trump and eight co-defendants to seek an appeal of the order.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is also involved:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a complaint for the disbarment of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her “illicit affair” with a top prosecutor in her Georgia election interference case against former President Trump.

“Today, I’m filing a complaint to disbar Fulton County DA Fani Willis for her corrupt actions,” Rep. Greene, R-GA, wrote in an X post on Wednesday. [skip]

“Fani should’ve been removed from her political persecution of President Trump after it was revealed she went on lavish vacations with her lover Nathan Wade,” Greene wrote. “The lover she paid HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars!”

“Unfit to serve!” she added.

No kidding.  As one might expect, Willis is unrepentant:

“I don’t feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed,” Willis told CNN on Saturday after a reporter asked her about it. “I guess my greatest crime is I had a relationship with a man, that’s not something I find embarrassing in any way. And I know that I have not done anything that’s illegal.” [skip]

“My team’s been continuing to work it … We were still doing the case in the way that it needed to be done,” she said. “I don’t feel like we’ve been slowed down at all. I do think there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming.”

Willis’ train analogy is not particularly bright, as things aren’t going well for her, or for the other lawfare trials.  In the meantime, Nathan Wade, who was gifted with nearly a million dollars of taxpayer money by Willis, isn’t exactly behaving honorably:

Scandal-riddled special prosecutor Nathan Wade — who was hired by former flame Fani Willis to handle an election-rigging case against former President Trump — has skimped out on paying child support and $4,400 for his estranged wife’s urgent medical procedures, according to a new divorce filing.

Jocelyn Wade accused her former husband Wednesday of refusing to hand over child support payments for their two kids, leaving them without money to pay rent and take care of Jocelyn’s medical issues. [skip]

According to his ex-wife, Wade has refused to make good on the out-of-court divorce agreement he struck in order to avoid testifying in court about his affair with Willis.

Jocelyn Wade spent what money she had for surgery on their children after Nathan Wade suddenly cut his son and daughter off and told them to “get the money from your mother” the filing states.

The “sudden cessation of support” for their children has left her monthly income at less than $1,000 a month, Jocelyn claimed, adding that her declining health has made it impossible for her to work.

The neglected expenses also include payments Wade allegedly promised to his children after his separation from his wife.

Interesting, isn’t it gentle readers, what low examples of humanity are bedeviling Trump?  It’s no surprise Willis continues to play the race card, even against the judge’s orders:

At an Atlanta-area awards ceremony celebrating “extraordinary women” in the community, Fani Willis said she’s going to “talk about race anyway” after the judge who oversaw the DA’s disqualification proceedings scolded her for playing the race card.

She’s “extraordinary” all right.

“Recently, they tell me they don’t like me to talk about race. Well, I’m going to talk about it anyway,” Willis remarked.

“Truth is: There’s some challenges that come with being black. And I see so much greatness in this city that has so many great African American leaders. And I appreciate all of the sacrifice that you all have had to make to be in these positions,” Willis said at the South Fulton Women of the Shield Awards. [skip]

The Fulton County district attorney’s remarks defy Judge Scott McAfee’s warning against making extrajudicial comments that could compromise former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case, which Willis is in charge of prosecuting.

Willis is certain she’ll suffer nothing for defying McAfee, and thus far, she’s right.  But her troubles are far from over:

During an interview with Townhall columnist and legal analyst Phil Holloway, Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd alleged that Willis recorded a phone call between herself and one of his Maryland colleagues.

“She did reach out to us, one of my colleagues in Maryland, and was rude, abrupt with him on the phone, and he was dealing with the Maryland case and I was dealing with the Georgia case, and she ended up recording him,” Kachouroff said.

He noted that Maryland is a “two party state,” meaning both parties had to consent to the recording. When asked by Holloway if he was saying that Willis illegally recorded the phone call, he said, “Oh, yes” and noted it was a felony in Maryland.

Meh. Laws are for the little people and Republicans.  But even the DOJ (?!) is finding Willis is corrupt:

The Department of Justice has found “inconsistencies” regarding the appropriation of federal grant funds used by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office, according to the Washington Free Beacon. 

I’m shocked—shocked!—that Fani Willis would break the law.

The shocking revelations come to light two years after Willis terminated a whistleblower who had warned Wills that her office was attempting to misuse nearly half a million dollars awarded in a federal grant for a youth gang prevention initiative to instead pay for, “swag,” Mac Book computers, and travel. Amanda Timpson, who was listed as the grant director, said she was abruptly fired by Willis less than two months after reporting the intended misuse of funds to Willis. Timpson claims that she was escorted out of her office by seven armed investigators. She later filed a whistleblower complaint that alleged wrongful termination.

The grant was intended to be used for the creation of a Center for Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention in Atlanta, but while the grant ended in September 2023, the center was never opened.

The $488,000 federal grant that Timpson warned Willis about is now indicated by DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs as plagued with reporting discrepancies from Willis’ office. These errors were only disclosed by federal authorities after initially providing contradictory statements regarding the allocation of the grants by Willis’ office.

The DOJ probably won’t do anything about it, but apparently feel the need to get out in front of the story.  Why would a county prosecutor meet with any federal official prior to prosecuting Donald Trump? Why, particularly, would the Vice President do that?  MSN.com wonders:

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris before she indicted Donald Trump in his election interference case, according to a lawyer who shared White House records during a Georgia Senate hearing.

The meeting, according to Attorney Ashley Merchant’s testimony, took place on February 28, 2023, just months before Willis indicted Trump in August of that year, Newsweek reported.

Willis wasn’t the only one present:

During her testimony before the Georgia Senate, Merchant said that the mayor of Atlanta was also present for the meeting.

“My understanding is that it’s highly regulated who can access the White House … so you have to apply ahead of time,” Merchant said, adding the White House records showing the meeting are open to the public.

When asked if there was any information available as to the reason the meeting took place, Merchant said no.

I’m sure the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration, being the most transparent in history, will clear this right up.  Willis, who has nothing for which to apologize or hide, is hiding:

Democratic Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ political opponent debated with an empty podium after Willis skipped the county’s first Democratic Party debate, local reports show.  [skip]

The Fulton County Democratic Party held its first primary debate on Sunday, but Willis was a no-show, leaving her political opponent to take the stage alone, where he criticized his fellow Democrat for hiring a romantic partner for the high-level case.

“That issue is important to us in Fulton County and a lot of people across the country,” Smith said on the stage, Fox 5 reported. 

​​”When you pay one attorney nearly $1 million to handle one case, that leaves the rest of us vulnerable. That hurts everyone in Fulton County,” he said.

As if all of that weren’t sufficient evidence of Willis’ corruption and incompetence, it now appears she never had jurisdiction to file charges:

A motion filed in the Fulton County “election interference” case against Donald Trump and 18 codefendants, also known as “The Fulton 19,” hasn’t garnered much attention but has the potential to upend the entire case.

At issue is Georgia law that appears to give exclusive jurisdiction over election-related violations to the state election board.  Without their approval, no local prosecutor has jurisdiction, and none was ever given to Willis.

In reviewing the indictment, he discovered Willis had attempted to proactively justify her jurisdiction to bring the case, which led him to question that assertion. He described a letter Willis wrote to the court as he paraphrased Willis’ argument saying that “the rest of the state, the secretary of state, and the governor, they’re all compromised” and elaborated with, “I’m the only one left standing, that can investigate this.” After examining the whole issue more thoroughly, he discovered she may not have the jurisdiction she thought she had.

Kachouroff explained that he had filed a motion challenging Willis’ jurisdiction with Judge McAfee, but it was denied. The judge ruled that the district attorney’s office had “shared jurisdiction,” but he later granted Floyd’s motion for immediate review of that issue by the Georgia Court of Appeals.

What’s likely happening is McAfee, a white man, is afraid of black activists and lawyers, and can’t dismiss cases he knows should be dismissed, so he’s pawning it off on higher courts.

As the interview continued, Holloway and Kachouroff reviewed his motion to appeal that issue and turned their focus to a subtle but important issue with McAfee’s position. They argued that part of the reason the state election board has sole jurisdiction is so they can decide where to refer a case for prosecution, which could be to the state’s attorney general’s office or one of Georgia’s 54 district attorneys.

Kachouroff’s central argument is that if district attorneys are free to bring a case independent of that election board process, nothing prevents multiple DAs from duplication or “fragmentation of investigative activities” as they try to bring, or decide not to bring, their own variants of what is essentially the same case.

Hollaway responded by arguing that the DAs are already fragmented, stating frankly, “We’ve got DAs across the state that would say that Fani Willis’ indictment of Harrison Floyd and the others is bullsh-t. They would say it in a heartbeat if they felt they could.”

Here’s where this gets very interesting: According to Kachouroff, if the court of appeals or the Georgia Supreme Court were to rule in Floyd’s favor, it would mean Willis indicted the defendants without proper jurisdiction. Not only would that cause her entire case to crumble like a house of cards, but such a ruling would also remove her immunity. This would leave her and Fulton County vulnerable to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit for violating the civil rights of each of the defendants.

Final Thoughts:

Take the link—take all the links—to read the rest.  What’s clear is corrupt local and federal prosecutors and judges are determined to take cases honest judges would immediately dismiss to trial.  They no longer care how outrageous, illegal, even stupid are their claims and actions.  They know they’ll face no personal consequences, even as state bars disbar Republican lawyers for doing their jobs challenging corrupt elections.

The point is interfering with Trump’s ability to campaign, to deny him election, and they’re desperate to convict him of something—anything—before the election.  They know any conviction will surely be overturned on appeal, and they know every prosecutor’s primary charge is to ensure justice—not winning at all cost—is done, but again, they don’t care.  All of that will happen after the election. They have a mission: so save “our democracy” even as they destroy our constitutional republic, and they’re going to do it even if it brings down the entire American system of justice in the process.

Actually, apart from destroying Trump and denying him election, that’s the point.