The media has been saying the judge will make his ruling this week. It's now Friday. Do we expect something today or is he going to drag this out longer?
Fulton County Democratic Persecution
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WingsOfGold
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This thing is officially OVER listening to closing arguments. Pointed out no receipts, they all had amnesia and race card.
jrt_ms1995
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She didn't have enough cash laying around the house to pay for black attorneys.
No more campaign funds?
The Hill ran another good-news story yesterday headlined, “Trump, Georgia attorneys clash in final Fani Willis disqualification arguments.”
After three hours of legal arguments yesterday afternoon — I heard about half of it — Judge Scott McAfee concluded the trial, saying he’ll issue a ruling in the next two weeks. Although the judge started the hearing signaling he was inclined to disqualify DA Fani Willis, her attorneys did a good job of muddying the waters. So the judge is thinking about it some more.
That said, Fani’s lawyer was fiesty, but not terribly persuasive. The young attorney was forced by circumstance to take wildly indefensible positions, such as claiming there was no evidence that Fani got any personal benefit, or that Terrance Bradley’s denials of his own text messages were perfectly normal speculation.
But suddenly yesterday afternoon, things got worse. Much worse. Someone leaked the audio of a voice message left for terrific defense lawyer Ashleigh Merchant. You’ll recall Merchant, who filed the original disqualification motion and kept all her texts with witness Terrance Bradley. The surprise new witness is a waiter, who claimed to have served Nathan Wade and Terrance Bradley at lunch five weeks ago.
CLIP: Witness volunteers to contradict Nathan Wade’s sworn testimony; witness tampering. (0:28).
Boom! The first problem is, Nathan Wade testified under oath that he hadn’t seen or talked to Bradley in two years. Sounds like perjury. The trial is closed, but even if Judge MaCafee rules against the defendants, they can now file motion for reconsideration based on the newly-discovered evidence, and open the whole thing up again.
But there’s an even bigger problem. The Wade-Bradley lunch happened after Bradley texted attorney Merchant with one version of his testimony, and before Bradley changed to a new story at trial. It seems to me this evidences classic witness tampering — a very serious crime, much more serious even than perjury.
Our entire judicial system rests on the notion that witnesses may not be influenced, bribed, or threatened before they testify. Absent that rule, the whole system fails.
If Nathan Wade even had a shred of the prosecutorial experience he claims to have, he should’ve kept far from Terrance. Farther away than he’d have kept from a maskless, covid-positive person on an airplane. With an uncontrollable cough. At the very least, Nathan should never have met with Terrance in public. What a maroon.
Witness tampering is a serious problem and provides a second avenue for the defendants to re-open an adverse ruling by Judge MaCafee. The lunch meeting, combined with Terrance’s testimonial reversal, could easily be enough to turn the S.S. Fani Willis into an environmentally-friendly artificial reef.
Thank you, 2024.
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WingsOfGold
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Looks like her asst DA
Fani Willis warned Nathan Wade's divorce lawyer to stay quiet about their affair, bombshell new court filing claims: Trump prosecutor case gets another twist with NEW witness that could deliver devastating testimony
- Judge heard arguments Friday about whether to disqualify Wade and Willis
- Former Wade partner Terrence Bradley was key witness
- Now lawyer wants to bring a new witness: a prosecutor who spoke to Bradley
A new witness brought forth by a Donald Trump codefendant in Georgia claims to have overheard Fulton County DA Fani Willis speaking to the former law partner of her former lover and gave what is being described as a warning not to talk about what he knows.
Witness Terrence Bradley was a critical witness and key figure during court arguments Friday about whether Willis and former boyfriend and special prosecutor Nathan Wade should be disqualified from prosecuting Trump and 18 codefendants.
He repeatedly testified that he couldn't recall information when questions about texts with another attorney about when the relationship between Willis and Wade began.
Now a lawyer for defendant David J. Shafer says in a new filing that Cindi Lee Yeager, a prosecutor from Cobb County, Georgia, had 'numerous, in-person and other conversations' with Bradley in which they discussed information about Willis and Wade.
Last, but not at all least, yesterday saw more developments in the Fulton County tragicomedy now called the Fani Willis case. Soon, only robotic drone submarines will be able to still see the murky outlines of Fani’s sinking ship as it drifts down into the Marianas Trench. The New York Post’s headline explained, “Fani Willis warned Nathan Wade’s lawyer to stay quiet about affair, court filing claims: ‘They are coming after us.’” Ruh-roh.
The news exploded yesterday after another new witness filed a new affidavit in the case: Cobb County prosecutor Cindi Lee Yeager. In addition to the earth-shattering claim that Fani told Bradley to keep his fat mouth shut, but it also said Ms. Yeager would swear under oath that Bradley told Yeager the Willis-Wade romance definitely began in 2019, during Willis’s DA campaign.
Yeager — a lawyer and state prosecutor — wields a weight of testimonial power heavier than non-lawyer witnesses would.
If the Court accepts the new testimony, it makes perjurers out of the entire rogue’s gallery: Fulton’s Trump-prosecuting DA Fani Willis, love-squeeze Nathan Wade, and former law partner Terrance Bradley.
Monday’s filing explained that, after she saw Terrance Bradley’s testimony on the stand, Ms. Yeager “became concerned as a result of the fact that what Mr. Bradley testified to on the witness stand was directly contrary to what Mr. Bradley had told Ms. Yeager in person.” Not too good.
Heroic Cobb County prosecutor Cindi Lee Yeager
But, once again, the cover-up is worse than the original crime. As I explained over the weekend, witness tampering is a serious crime. It is gangster-level stuff. If, as Yeager claimed, Fani Willis instructed Bradley “not to talk to them about anything,” Fani could be facing jail time of her own, as the huntress becomes the hunted.
The development raised a fascinating new possibility. Judge MaCafee need not consider this new evidence. He should, but under the rules, since the trial is over, he is not required to re-open the evidence. But it’s not going away, since the Trump defendants now have an even more compelling case to request the Judge “reconsider” a future ruling in Willis’ favor — a fact of which Judge MaCafee will be keenly aware.
But even more painfully for Fani, the devastation goes far beyond a harmful motion for reconsideration. Based on this new evidence of witness tampering, Georgia’s Ethics Commission could investigate Fani. The state Bar Association could investigate Fani. The state’s prosecutor could investigate the embattled Fulton County DA.
Fani could easily be disbarred over this, and if she is, the Trump prosecution will crumble.
Last week, Fani’s lawyers argued forcefully that the luxury vacations and the sex romps have nothing to do with the prosecution of President Trump and his co-defendants. But, if Fani is found to have committed crimes in her prosecution of the case — crimes like witness tampering — the case goes away.
A hundred percent, Fani Willis could end up in jail over this one.
I will now make a rare prediction. A week ago I wrote that, if Fani were smart, she would step back and not battle to stay on the case. She did not take my advice. And at this point, even if nothing else happens, given the oppressive stench of all her bad conduct, Fani Willis cannot possibly survive in control of the Trump case. No way. She will probably be removed as District Attorney altogether. I’d bet on it.
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Grumpy
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Ashley Merchant is awesome..I actually watched this Georgia Senate(?) inquiry today (2 or 3 hrs). She was unflappable, had all her facts sourced and always had immediate answers to any questions, no himming/hawing, no bs. Below is Viva Frei's summary, yeah it's long but he does cover everything, even the D dolt at the end of the hearing.
The deep state struck back this week, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in its article headlined, “Civil rights attorney to challenge Scott McAfee, judge in Fulton Trump case.”
Many states, including Florida and Georgia, elect trial judges. In those states, perhaps the most well-known way to punish a sitting judge is to gin up a candidate to run against them in the next election. Many, if not most established judges usually run unopposed. The reason is, the pool of lawyer candidates is already small, and most lawyers are reluctant to make an enemy of a well-established judge by running against them and losing.
Even if a judge occupies a safe seat, the addition of any candidate means the judge now has to run. That means expense, in time and money. He needs money to fund the campaign; either the judge must fund his campaign out of his own pocket, or he must fire up a campaign committee and commence fund-raising. Fund-raising is already a painful chore for most candidates, but it’s even harder for judges, who must avoid even the appearance of bias, and must endure electoral and ethics-rules restrictions that other types of candidates don’t.
And local-race judges normally enjoy anonymity. Voters who don’t know anything else about them tend to vote for the sitting judge by default.
But all that flies out the window whenever there’s a contentious media case during election season, like Judge MaCafee’s Fani Willis decision. Running a competitive candidate pours gasoline on the race and if the competing candidate shows up right before a major, high-visibility decision is made, it is clearly designed to send the judge a message.
The message here is, if white Judge MaCafee makes a decision unpopular with the majority of black Atlantans — if Fani’s unhinged racial bias claims stick — then Judge MaCafee will be facing an angry electorate and will likely lose. So, if he likes his job, Judge MaCafee better decide right, which means not angering a large, well-funded, highly-motivated group of opponents.
But on the other hand, if the judge rubber-stamps Fani’s reprehensible conduct, then conservatives and Trump supporters won’t forget it either.
Judge MaCafee now finds himself in Star Trek’s Kobayashi Maru scenario; in other words, he holds an untenable, no-win position.
If I could advise Judge MaCafee, if somehow he were to read this, I’d recommend he just focus on doing the right thing. That advice may seem overly simplistic, but the complex legal and political pot of radioactive spaghetti he faces will not yield to analysis. He simply won’t be able to think his way out of this; he should trust Providence and do whatever he believes is right.
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I wonder whether Fani Willis regrets yet her fateful decision to indict one of the most popular Presidents in American history under a thin, creative legal theory. True, she may have been encouraged — if not put up to it — by some covert and highly-illegal White House dirty tricks squad. But clearly, the luckless DA failed to comprehend the political nuclear weapon she detonated in her own back yard, right next to the broken refrigerator and that old truck up on cement blocks.Yesterday I reported the curious timing of Judge MaCafee’s new election challenger. Well, apparently two can play at that game. Yesterday, Atlanta News First delivered more bad news for DA Willis in a story headlined, “Two candidates announce run against Fani Willis for Fulton County district attorney seat.”
As the headline reported, not one but two candidates for Fani’s job filed qualification papers this week. The first was Republican Courtney Kramer, a lawyer for one of the Trump defendants. In the linked clip, Courtney hinted that, if Judge MaCafee does disqualify Fani, no other district attorney at the Fulton County DA’s office is crazy enough to take on the Trump case. She also reported that bar complaints have now been filed against Fani and Nathan, which could be another devastating development for the embattled DA:
CLIP: Courtney Kramer discusses Fani Willis case and decision to run (4:40).
For any lawyer, even a groundless, spiteful, nonsensical bar complaint is a burden. Since the lawyer could conceivably wind up losing their license, all complaints must all be taken seriously, even if the complaint is no more than a handwritten rant. Dealing with nuisance bar complaints still takes up valuable time — nothing to be done about it — and heaps up unavoidable anxiety until the complaint is successfully resolved.
And that’s just for meritless complaints. A meritorious bar complaint is a thousand times more stressful, time consuming, and dangerous. Fani and Nathan’s bar complaints are probably in this second category. So.
But that’s not all. This week, another attorney filed to run against Fani, democrat Christian Wise Smith, who ran against her in 2020’s district attorney race. He seems like a nice enough fellow.
So you might say the original Fani Willis cancer — a cancer tentacling throughout Georgia’s political system — has reached stage four and is now metastasizing. Just look at where we are: a nail-biting countdown to Judge MaCafee’s decision, which will only be the beginning of that litigation, new witnesses and evidence popping up and leaking all over the place, an Ethics Commission just getting its legs under it, bar complaints, new candidates challenging the judge and the district attorney, and who knows what else going on behind the scenes in Georgia as the political players sharpen their long knives to a razors edge.
Another way to look at it is, the blood is in the water now, and a frantic school of starving sharks is swimming circles around Fani Willis’s sinking political life raft.
As I’ve said before, everyone involved in this thing — even Biden’s political dirty tricks squad — are off the map. Nobody has ever persecuted a former president (or a presidential candidate) this way before, so nobody knows how things could play out. They are playing with unstable political dynamite.
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