Hollywood Could Not Write Fani Willis' Flameout If It Tried

Being Booted Off Her Own Case Might Be The Least Of Her Concerns

The evidentiary hearing into Fani Willis’ ethical lapses during the persecution prosecution of Donald Trump in the Georgia RICO case surrounding the 2020 election is proving to be more than a little bit on the “explosive” side.

When even MSNBC’s legal talking heads are talking about the Georgia case being “dead in the water”, one can be fairly certain that today has not been a good day for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.

Legal analyst Caroline Polisi flatly declared on MSNBC that new testimony contradicting Fani Willis’ claims about her relationship with a colleague was “game over for her” in the election fraud trial against former President Donald Trump.

Polisi, who frequently appears on both MSNBC and CNN, did not hold back on how bad a day this is for the Fulton County DA.

“Don’t let the legalese fool you,” she opened. “This is epic. This is monumental. If things are going in the direction we think, Fani Willis lied to the court, it’s game over for her. She will be disqualified. If they had a relationship prior to when they represented truth to the court, it’s a huge deal. I can’t overstate.

One absolute bombshell revelation came from none other than Willis’ paramour himself, Nathan Wade: Fani Willis reimbursed him in cash for trips the two of them took together. Watch the video (downloaded from Twitter and re-uploaded here).

Wade used his business credit card, got cash from Fani Willis, and did not declare any of those trips as deductions on his taxes—meaning those trips were by definition of a personal and not business or professional nature.

There is also the matter of a cash obfuscating the paper trail over said reimbursements. Legal matters aside, use of cash is an Accounting 101 level of poor internal control of which any professional person should be aware. The reason businesses use company credit cards and the like is to have robust and precise documentation on business expenditures, and Nathan Wade’s testimony is amounts to an admission that he and Fani Willis worked in concert to defeat that purpose.

Even more damning for Fani Willis is the assertion (allegation?) by former Fulton County DA staffer Robin Yeartie that Willis’ relationship with Wade began earlier than Willis claimed in her filings to the court.

Yeartie was asked about the dates by Alison Merchant, an attorney representing Trump co-defendant Michael Roman:

MERCHANT:  And so you’re — you know, without going into all the pain staking details, there’s no doubt in your mind that from 2019 until 2022, Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade were in a romantic relationship?

YEARTIE: What’s the question?

MERCHANT: You have no doubt that their romantic relationship was in effect from 2019 until the last time you spoke with her?

YEARTIE: No doubt.

MERCHANT: Okay. And that’s based on your personal observations and, you know, speaking with them and seek them together and things like that?

YEARTIE: Yes.

This testimony directly contradicts Fani Willis’ own sworn affadavit to the court:

The affidavit also clarifies that, although District Attorney Willis and Special Prosecutor Wade have been professional associates and friends since 2019, there was no personal relationship between them in November 2021 at the time of Special Prosecutor Wade’s appointment,

If Yeartie’s testimony is accurate, Willis perjured herself to the court.

The magnitude of these issues is perhaps best summarized by Caroline Polisi’s additional observations:

Polisi added further context in a statement to Mediaite, saying, “Willis will be disqualified, which means her entire office is disqualified, which means the case will have to be re-assigned and languish with the PAC of Georgia, effectively killing the case. Her credibility is completely shot.”

There is no way, of course, to fact-check or verify any of the statements made by any of the persons mentioned here, other than to note that Fani Willis’ and Nathan Wade’s statements are made under oath. However, there is also no escaping both the reality of the evidences Ashleigh Merchant has presented to the court against Fani Willis and the legal ramifications of those evidences surviving judicial scrutiny—which even the MSNBC talking heads appear to presume will be the case.

Fani Willis and Nathan Wade appear to have been well and truly caught in their own self-spun web of deceit and corruption. Compounding the clear ethical concerns of a DA hiring her lover as a special prosecutor we have at the very least perjury by Fani Willis. Depending on how the courts view Fani Willis’ choice to “reimburse” Nathan Wade “in cash” for shared trips, there may even be issues of illegal gifts and other financial improprieties.

Yet by far the worst aspect for the case against Donald Trump is that this corruption and deceit by Fani Willis and Nathan Wade has, by the evidence, been an ongoing feature of Willis’ effort to build a case against Donald Trump, which itself begs the question of what other corrupt and improper practices were utilized in building that case? What else has Ms. Willis done wrong? To what extent does her misconduct compromise every defendant’s right to receive a fair trial?

Hollywood could not script a more explosive courtroom scene if it tried. Willis has, in the span of a single hearing, gone from being a prosecutor with a major case against a major political figure to potentially being the one prosecuted for her criminal misconduct in that very same case.

The dust is still settling over these legal bombshell explosions over Fani Willis as of this writing, but if the damage is as the legal eagles appear to believe it is, Fani Willis may very well have, in the words of Caroline Polisi, “killed the case”.