Posted on 01/24/2024 4:48:20 PM PST by know.your.why
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - An allegation by one of former President Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case is threatening to delay the prosecution of the former president and the remaining co-defendants. Former White House aide Michael Roman has accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of having an "improper, clandestine relationship" with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade and benefiting when Wade then paid for the two of them to go on vacations.
Timeline:
⚫ Aug. 14, 2023: Former President Donald Trump and 18 other people are indicted by a Fulton County grand jury, accused of scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
⚫ Jan. 8, 2024: Joycelyn Wade, through her attorney Andrea Hastings, attempts to serve Willis with a notice of deposition. The subpoena was presented to an employee at the Office of the Fulton County District Attorney.
⚫ Jan. 8, 2024: An attorney for defendant Michael Roman files a motion seeking to disqualify the DA’s office from the case because of an alleged romantic relationship between Willis and Wade. The court filing states that because Wade paid for trips they took together, Willis benefited financially from the arrangement. Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, asks for the Wades’ divorce records to be unsealed and also wants the charges against her client dropped. The DA’s office says they will reply in a court filing but doesn’t indicate when that will be.
⚫ Jan. 12: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) announces an investigation into Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade.
⚫ Jan. 14: Willis defends Wade during a 35-minute speech at the historic Big Bethel AME Church. She calls him a "superstar, a great friend and a great lawyer," but does not confirm or deny a romantic relationship. She suggests racism is behind the accusations that he is not qualified to be a special prosecutor, noting that critics targeted Wade, who is Black, and not the two other special prosecutors on the Trump case, who are white.
⚫ Jan. 18: Willis seeks a protective order to stop her from having to give a deposition in the Wades’ divorce. Willis accuses Joycelyn Wade of "interfering" with the Trump prosecution and says her allegations are meant to harass and embarrass Willis.
⚫ Jan. 19: Joycelyn Wade’s attorneys respond to Willis, attaching some of Nathan Wade’s credit card records to their court filing. The statements show that he purchased plane tickets for Willis and himself. Former President Trump's attorney Steven Sadow posts the court documents to his LinkedIn account.
⚫ Jan. 19: Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis sends a letter to Willis demanding documents from her in an effort to determine whether county funds paid to Wade "were converted to your personal gain in the form of subsidized travel or other gifts."
⚫ Jan. 22: In a hearing, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson says the Wades’ divorce records were improperly sealed and agrees to unseal the records. He also issues a stay related to Willis' deposition, saying it doesn't make sense for her to be questioned before Wade.
⚫ Jan. 22: Chairman of Georgia's Senate Committee on Transportation and Chief Deputy Whip Sen. Greg Dolezal (R-Cumming) introduces legislation to establish the Senate Special Committee on Investigations to look into allegations of misconduct involving Willis.
⚫ Jan. 31: Evidentiary hearing in the divorce case scheduled in Cobb Superior Court.
⚫ Feb. 2: Deadline given by Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee for Willis to respond to Roman’s motion.
⚫ Feb. 15: Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is scheduled to hold a hearing to consider Roman’s motion.
“Fulton County Resident Lights Up Commissioners Over Fani Willis and Targeting Trump”
This article has a great video embedded of a Fulton County resident addressing the commissioners in regards to Fani Willis.
Leave the Poles out of it. They have suffered enough😳
Two stories in a row where the headline takes the mind in another direction.
“We sent in the best probe NASA could construct. It never returned any data from within the depths of that dark astronomical abyss.”
Fulton County commissioner wants Fani Willis probed........
and here I thought Nathan Wade had already probed her.
politico.com / edited excerpt
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By hiding behind her blackness, Willis makes it look like she has committed some very serious wrongdoing. Legal responses are expected to be delivered in court but Willis went to church....a decidedly black church to, 1. underline her blackness, and, 2. score points about racism.
Her speech in church was purely political agit-prop, evasive on pretty much every material factual question. It was a serious disservice to Willis’ constituents, and further calls into question her professional judgment, which had already come under scrutiny even before all this.
She suggests her blackness alone is the reason the case was brought to buttress her burgeoning ambitions.
Willis whined, Trump’s allies were racists heaping extra scrutiny on a Black woman, but the fact is that attorneys of color also make mistakes, and they are also capable of engaging in serious professional misconduct just like white people.
The fact that a prosecutor is Black, brown, blue or any other color does not grant them immunity from legitimate questions about how they do their jobs. Defendant’s may nit-pick the charges against them but criticism in a court of law is not typically construed as racism.
A “cheap shot” comes to mind.
It is incumbent upon Willis to address the allegations clearly and forthrightly, if she can — and to let the chips fall where they may.
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Fulton county crazy. I really mean it.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1750306634952290484?s=20
LOLOL!!!
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