Some believe District Attorney Fani Willis “did what she needed to do” while giving testimony during a Fulton County misconduct hearing to determine whether she should be disqualified from overseeing the criminal case in Georgia against former President Donald Trump.
“She understood the assignment,” said Reecie Colbert, a political commentator and host of Sirius XM’s “The Reecie Colbert Show.”
“She came out more on top than she started. When the news first broke, it was like, girl, come on…you knew better,” said Colbert. “Her approach to really tackle it head-on, be transparent and forceful, showed why they’re so scared of her.”
During nearly two hours of testimony on Thursday, Willis defiantly pushed back against accusations from attorneys representing Trump and his allies that she and Nathan Wade, whom she hired as special prosecutor, financially benefited from the case.
Court filings in a divorce case between Wade and his estranged wife revealed that he and Willis were romantically involved and vacationed together. Defense attorneys asserted that Wade, who had earned more than $700,000 since being hired as special counsel in November 2021, paid for the trips with money he had made from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
During their testimonies, however, the now-former paramours said Willis paid Wade back with cash for every trip and that the relationship did not become personal until March 2022 – five months into Wade’s hiring – and ended in the summer of 2023.
“You’re confused! I am not on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020,” Willis fired back while being questioned.
The Atlanta county’s first female district attorney lambasted Trump’s lawyers for “being intrusive into people’s personal lives” and contradicted claims they made that she and Wade lived together and that they were intimate the first night they met in 2019….
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