Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not one to play it safe.
But Willis is seriously playing with fire this time.
And Fani Willis is about to face a judge’s wrath over these four words.
Fani Willis feels no shame over the fact that Judge Scott McAfee all but formally accused her of perjury on the witness stand during a hearing over disqualifying her from her case against Trump for contesting the 2020 election.
Defense lawyers argued Willis hired her lover Nathan Wade as special prosecutor and then reaped the financial reward as Wade used some of the money he earned from working the case to pay for the couple’s luxurious vacations.
Judge McAfee didn’t disqualify Willis from the case, but he issued an unprecedented rebuke in the ruling saying her testimony was tainted by an “odor of mendacity” and ripped her “unprofessional conduct” on the witness stand.
An unbowed Willis recently spoke to CNN and tried to claim she had nothing to be ashamed of and that her sex scandal and potential misuse of taxpayer funds to benefit a romantic relationship were trivial.
“I don’t feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed. Let’s say, for the record, I’m not embarrassed by anything I’ve done,” Willis stated. “You know, I guess my greatest crime is I had a relationship with a man. But that’s not something that I find embarrassing in any way. And I know that I have not done anything illegal.”
Willis then strayed into problematic territory, warning Trump about trying to delay the case and declaring that “the train is coming.”
“All while that was going on, we were writing responsive briefs. We were still doing the case in the way that it needed to be done. I don’t feel like we’ve been slowed down at all. I do think that there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming,” Willis added.
Judge McAfee called Willis out on the carpet for her attempts to poison the jury pool by claiming Trump and the other defendants only wanted to kick her off the case due to racism.
In his ruling, Judge McAfee floated the unheard-of step of issuing a gag order against the prosecution to stop Willis from commenting in public about the case.
“The time may well have arrived for an order preventing the State from mentioning the case in any public forum to prevent prejudicial pretrial publicly, but that is not the motion presently before the Court,” McAfee stated.
Willis’ comments could prove grounds for a mistrial if she keeps asserting Trump’s guilt in her public statements or otherwise impugns her motives.
Legal experts could see this clown show coming a mile away as Willis’ indictment was preposterous on the face of it and Willis holding a midnight pep rally to announce the charges against Trump last August indicated this wasn’t some righteous prosecution.
But Willis’ inability to control herself and restrain her hatred for Donald Trump served as the icing on the cake that this case is politically motivated election interference.
That’s why, for a variety of reasons, all the trials against Trump spell doom for the Democrats.
It’s also why the polls show the American people shrugging off these indictments and the presidential election staying focused on Joe Biden’s failures instead.
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