Thursday evening, Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley broke down the misconduct hearing regarding Fani Willis and Nathan Wade’s scandalous love affair on “Hannity.”
“What was really damaging here is the fact that both of these attorneys now stand credibly accused of filing false information with courts,” Turley told Hannity. “So the question is, if she didn’t have this personal relationship with Wade, would she really be keeping him around under this cloud?
“And both of them are now putting their own interests ahead of the case and ahead of their office and that only compounds the ethical concerns in the case.”
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Fox News analysts were not the only ones predicting that Willis’ days are numbered in her case against former President Donald Trump. Even legal analysts at CNN were piling on with assessments that only underscored how poorly she performed in court as her marquee case begins to slip away.
CNN analyst Michael Moore deemed Willis’ assertion of reimbursing her subordinate lover with cash “not credible,” while the Democratic Fulton County district attorney dismissed accusations of showering fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade with first-class airline tickets and overseas stays.
All this unfolded against a backdrop of mounting multi-million dollar bills in the pursuit of Trump and his 18 co-defendants.
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“It reminded me of watching a criminal defendant take the stand,” Moore said about the testimony. “They don‘t have to do that. You see it and you can tell that the defendant thinks that they‘re smarter than every lawyer in the room. And it just becomes a train wreck. And so that‘s sort of how I felt, this just went off the track.”
For several excruciating minutes, Willis and defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant clashed over her claims that she keeps up to $15,000 in cash at her household at all times, using large sums to reimburse Wade for travel put on taxpayer-funded debit cards while conveniently not leaving a paper trail of receipts.
The dramatic evidentiary hearing got so out of hand that Judge Scott McAfee called a five-minute recess to let both sides cool down. When they returned, he asked both attorneys to stop “talking over one another” and warned Willis, “We have to listen to the questions as asked … and if this happens again and again, I’m going to have no choice but to strike your testimony.”
Throughout the morning, Willis called the allegations against her “dishonest” and “extremely offensive,” at one point raising documents being discussed and waving them in Merchant’s face as she shouted, “This is a lie!” Not long before, Wade stormed out of the courtroom as Merchant began to call her first witness.
Following the evidentiary hearing, wall-to-wall coverage on the three major cable news networks all indicated that Willis is not only at risk of being disqualified from the case, but may face criminal charges as well. Her dismissal would prompt Georgia officials to see another prosecutor who would be empowered to downgrade charges or dismiss the case against Trump altogether.
