Republicans now target Georgia district attorney's personal life. |
Her personal business has nothing to do with the indictment of former president Donald J. Trump and those who tried to overturn the results of the election in Fulton County, Georgia.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is hit with allegations she had an affair with a prosecutor on the staff. Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor is the person who touched off a wave of speculation. Now they want her removed from the case and Georgia Republicans are hoping to do it.
But let's look at Trump's rank hypocrisy.
He had married Ivana Trump and cheated on her with Marla Maples. They ended up having daughter Tiffany. Trump married Maples briefly. Divorced her. Met Melania Kuvnas and married her. Had an affair while she was pregnant with son Barron.
Trump had affairs on his three wives. He slept with Stormy Daniels, an adult entertainer and activist. He was found liable in the sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll. He is a client on Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs and he said he can "grab 'em by the...." because he's famous.
So what she does in her personal life doesn't have anything to do with overthrowing a free and fair election in Georgia's most populated county.
Willis has been subpoenaed to give a pretrial deposition in the divorce case of Nathan and Joycelyn Wade on January 23, but in a blistering court filing on Thursday the DA’s attorney said that subpoena should be quashed.
Joycelyn Wade “has conspired with interested parties in the criminal election interference case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis,” argued Cinque Axam on Willis’ behalf.
Questions about the DA and special prosecutor Nathan Wade burst into public view last week when Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Trump codefendant Mike Roman, contended in a court filing that the two were in a romantic relationship. Merchant also alleged, without providing proof, that Willis has benefited financially from the relationship, with the DA going on “lavish” vacations paid by Wade with money he made from Fulton County.
Willis so far has not addressed Roman’s underlying allegations, including if she inappropriately benefitted financially from him working on the Trump case.
But in an impassioned and defiant 35-minute speech on Sunday at Atlanta’s Big Bethel AME Church, Willis strongly defended Wade, his credentials and her own decision-making. She contended that detractors were “playing the race card” by criticizing the case’s only Black special prosecutor.
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