From "Fani Willis just gave Donald Trump exactly what he wants/The fact that there was even a hearing into Willis' alleged financial conflict of interest is great news for defendant Trump" (MSNBC).
That's MSNBC, take note.
February 16, 2024
"For those who generally have faith in Willis, she was understandably enraged and gave a master class in how to defend oneself in a public setting."
"For others, her protestations were over the top. Even so, the fact that there was even a hearing into Willis and whether she has a financial conflict of interest in the case was a windfall for Trump. Obviously, it would be an enormous boon for him if Willis or the entire Fulton County district attorney’s office is disqualified. But even if neither Willis nor her office is disqualified and her office is allowed to continue prosecuting this case, the damage done to the public’s perception of the case is incontrovertible...."
From "Fani Willis just gave Donald Trump exactly what he wants/The fact that there was even a hearing into Willis' alleged financial conflict of interest is great news for defendant Trump" (MSNBC).
From "Fani Willis just gave Donald Trump exactly what he wants/The fact that there was even a hearing into Willis' alleged financial conflict of interest is great news for defendant Trump" (MSNBC).
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NBC - lol.
Willis is an embarrassment and a fraud. and like many Partisan Democrats, she is an arrogant, money grubbing, above-the-law/ above-the-rules scumbag.
sorry MSNBC.
If one believes Willis, then expect a rise in home burglaries in Atlanta, and probably muggings outside Publix.
Regardless: "the damage done to the public’s perception of the case is incontrovertible." unless you are as slow as Gadfly.
My concept of defending oneself in a public setting includes martial arts, pepper spray, and possibly concealed carry.
Lawyer: "You have no proof of any reimbursement [to Wade for vacations] because it's all cash?
Fani: "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact. Are you telling me I'm lying?"
Lawyer: "I'm asking if you have any proof."
Fani: "The proof is what I just told you."
Masterclass. Riiiight…
'generally have faith in [a prosecutor]'
Yeah, that's not me. I sat on a jury once. The prosecutor (now the DA!) was phoning in it as far as I could tell. (Result: not guilty)
And I am just supposed to ignore the horrible grammar in that quote?
That's MSNBC, take note.
CNN was ready to exonerate her last night. The panic was almost palpable.
From my view, she accepted gifts (which were suppose to be disclosed and never were) and never reimbursed her lover whom she paid in excess of standard rates.
And the "I pay everything in cash" is laughable.
Fanny Willis gives a master class.
Trump rants and raves.
How dare Trump assume the 2020 elections was stolen from him.
Mind Crime
Mind Crime.
Trump departed the oval office when he was required to.
The judge, Scott McAfee, worked with Willis for four years. I can't imagine he's on the up and up either. I don't think she get's disqualified. Maybe. But the fix is in.
It was an entertaining comedic day. Fani went full Jerry Springer. That doesn't bother me. I don't believe in the sanctity of our court system anymore, so fuck their fake decorum. Also, she wore her pink dress backwards. Seriously. Zipper in the front. Check it out.
The strangest thing she said was regarding the $15K cash she keeps in her house. Willis seemed to suggest she took a cash off the top from her first campaign which is illegal.
Obviously, she gave Wade cash to cover any transaction/paper trail. We officially have two justice systems in the USA. Fani will be fine. The show must go on.
Trump ruins everything, especially his enemies.
Willis lied repeatedly yesterday with lies that no self-respecting human being would actually believe.
Blogger Original Mike said...
Lawyer: "You have no proof of any reimbursement [to Wade for vacations] because it's all cash?
Fani: "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact. Are you telling me I'm lying?"
Lawyer: "I'm asking if you have any proof."
Fani: "The proof is what I just told you."
I remember watching Judge Judy, and for proof of some payment, a defendant showed Judge Judy she had written the check # down in her check ledger but didn't have a copy of the cancelled check. Judge Judy laughed at the ridiculousness.
Here we have an Atlanta prosecutor going after a US President that has no more sense than a dingbat TV defendant on Judge Judy. For 2024 America, this makes absolutely perfect sense.
It doesn’t matter. Haven’t you heard the decry from GOP cult commander:
“Even if I’m guiltty, there’s no crime.” - Cheeto Mussolini
Pack it up boys, the very stable genius has legal logic by the short and curlies.
"Master" is racist. "Mistress class" fits.
I spent my career watching black women get promoted (and promoted and promoted) well above their levels of competence, and may live long enough to watch the system crash because of it.
Fani: "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact.
So she admits that it has been proven that she started banging Wade in 2019?
Oh. I thought we were going to ignore that circus. In fact, I was admiring your restraint. This is such potent clickbait that I'm worried the internet might capsize. But if we're doing Fani, well, let's have at it!
The question for me is, what is that poor bastard McAfee gonna do? Everyone on Earth knows that they are lying. Their position, as stated quite succinctly by Big Fani, is "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact". And they actually have the testimony of two count 'em two witnesses. So. "Are you calling a strong Black bitch a liar?"
Well, punk? Are ya?
I do like the concept of "those who generally have faith in Willis". I think that is a useful analytic grouping. Do you suppose we could get them to wear some sort of special marking? Maybe some kind of audible alarm?
I'm seeing this divide on twitter, where Trump supporters think she made a fool of herself and Trump haters think she schooled the examining attorney. I think the truth is somewhere in between, but that's enough to undermine her standing in the case against Trump and maybe her professional standing as a whole.
Master class my ass…
She looked like the prototypical (stereotypical?) angry black woman. Complete with all the anger and bravado of a Joe Biden presser.
Utterly lacking in credibility. The more she had to lie the angrier she got.
At least LeBron Wade kept his cool for the most part. He lied through his teeth too, but mostly stayed cool. (Doesn’t he look a little bit like LeBron?)
The only people who will think she did well will be the family and friends (and like minded people) who think this is the man keeping a stong black woman down. Granted that may be a lot of people in Atlanta, I dunno…
Original Mike.
hahahahahahaha
Sadly - My guess is she will get away with it.
BECAUSE DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE!
Another joke of Progressive fake prosecutions of the former President, now Candidate. Every day the Progressives show how stupid they are, and how without the biased lawfare that the Pravda media won't cover... should be crawling back under the rocks from which they came....
'Master Class.'
In other words, anyone else (especially a white republican) would have been held in contempt and had their skinny ass thrown in jail.
Btw, just heard on Scott Adams that the judge used to work for Fani.
How the fuck is this allowed?
Everything is a scam. Everything is crooked.
Oh, MSNBC underestimates their power to make their audience believe absurd things.
Those asserting that Fani Willis effectively defended herself are engaging in what I am now terming “desperation gaslighting.”
She dug the hole she’s in much, much deeper yesterday.
- Rafe
An MSNBC legal analyst called it "game over" for Willis. WSJ:
Colby Hall writes at Mediaite: 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 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 [Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council] of Georgia, **effectively killing the case.** Her credibility is completely shot.”
I am curious as to whether she paid taxes on that cash that she took out of her first campaign and stuffed in her mattress.
Masterclass? Ok. She seemed to have taken a page from Trump's playbook. I watched some clips. She neither impressed nor offended me in any way. From what is this sideshow distracting us?
Is it just me, or are we seeing that pretty much every prosecutor chasing after Trump has some serious ethics and integrity issues?
Our legal system is supposed to be unbiased and impartial - and almost everything I've been seeing indicates otherwise.
Can you be said to be conducting a Master Class when you are not even the master of your own emotional state in a crisis?
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Lawyer: "You have no proof of any reimbursement [to Wade for vacations] because it's all cash?
Fani: "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact. Are you telling me I'm lying?"
Lawyer: "I'm asking if you have any proof."
Fani: "The proof is what I just told you."
So.... I can tell the cops if they use Asset Forfeiture to steal my money that it is mine.. and that is proof enough!!
Neat-oh how these tax payer funded hacks in our judicial system take so many vacations.
and pay with.... cash! Because daddy would want it that way.
Meanwhile at the NYT...
"Why the Case Against Fani Willis Feels Familiar to Black Women"
Fani: "The testimony of one witness is enough to prove a fact."
That's now going to get cited back to her by every defendant she prosecutes.
I happened to turn the TV on yesterday (hopping for the Neil Cavuto business hour) and she truly was giving it her all - southern Daddy's little girl, couldn't remember the date the affair started but Every Woman knows the date when it ends!
the folks at "The Five" had a good time questioning her (and Wade's) veracity and her theatrics (and also said pretty much what the MSNBC article said) but CNN decided to claim the high road and said "none of this matters because the real criminals were the defendants" They easily brushed off the other witness who had seen them romantically involved previously because she was essentially fired, so her testimony meant nothing.
Worst was when they pulled the "if this was Jack Smith, would they be attacking him like this?" CNN playing the race card according to script.
What a f**king joke!
MSLSD
Willis' attorney father is on the stand right now. Say's keeping a lot of cash in the house "is a black thing".
You know, I really don't blame them. Last night on MSNBC some liberal ass kissing analyst said black don't trust banks and keep cash 'under the mattress'.
But, when you get to the level of high paid attorney or District Attorney, seems it is to cover up certain transactions.
Today corrupt Judge Engoron is expected to rule on the Trump NY business fraud case. Nothing was done in cash. Banks approved the loans, and got paid back in full with interest, and nobody was defrauded. But I'm sure Trump's financial penalty will be huge.
Two tier justice system at work. You can watch in happen in real time on the same day.
Atty Sadow: “…a cash horde”
Fani Willis: "Cash what?!"
Sadow: "Hoard. H-o-r-d-e."
Willis: "Oh, I thought you said something different, sir,”
Sanford and Son will be right back!
"Charles Coleman Jr., Jedi Knight"
That is a grown man's professional claim.
"Fani's passion is humanizing her to a large degree if we are being objective."
Sure, I guess banging your employee is something other humans do. Clinton did it, so did Edwards. Calling it passion seems appropriate, if we are being objective.
and gave a master class in how to defend oneself in a public setting.""
It was a temper tantrum.
Ya' know.........I'm beginning to think that newspapers are the problem.
Nelson Mandela and his murderous "burning tire necklace" wife Winnie were living anti-racist saints until they came into power in the 1990s. She even won the RFK Human Rights Award in 1985. Then divorce, then hard reality set in, then she was convicted of fraud. Live by racial strife, die by some sort of strife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_Madikizela-Mandela
People are not race blind, they routinely judge everything based skin color and are ethics-honesty-morality blind. This returns to simple tribalism and self-segregation when the race-is-everything crowd forces non-black sympathizers away.
Is it just me, or are we seeing that pretty much every prosecutor chasing after Trump has some serious ethics and integrity issues?
I've been waiting for someone to quote John 8:7, but it certainly doesn't seem to be the scripture being followed here. You are not alone.
What is it Robert Barnes is always saying, with a sardonic smile?
"Never in writing, always in cash"
This Fani Willis thing is pure 2024 stupid America.
There WAS voter fraud in GA in 2020. That is the truth.
The prosecution of Trump and others is coordinated with the DOJ and the Biden White House trying to put political rivals in jail to cover for what they did
The most public part of this case so far is if the Atlanta DA fucked the lawyer she hired to prosecute the case.
I'm guilty of paying attention to it. It's funny. There's and entertaining dark comedy in living through America flushing itself down the toilet.
Gusty Winds said...
Obviously, she gave Wade cash to cover any transaction/paper trail
Nope, it's better than that. She NEVER gave Wade ANY payment for "her share" of those bills (love nests, dinners, sex rooms, etc). However, she'd PREVIOUSLY, testified UNDER OATH, that she'd NEVER received ANY THING from her fuckboy.. That it was ALL "Completely Professional".
Then, when confronted with times and dates (and one bed hotel rooms (with extra cleaning charges for extra sticky sheets)), THEN she said; "well, i repaid him for my share.. With CASH"
It wasn't cash to cover a paper trail; It was a CLAIM of cash to account for THE COMPLETE LACK of a paper trail
"I remember watching Judge Judy, and for proof of some payment, a defendant showed Judge Judy she had written the check # down in her check ledger but didn't have a copy of the cancelled check. Judge Judy laughed at the ridiculousness. Gusty Winds
Common sense isn't common.
'This isn't about me f*cking Wade. This is about me f*cking Trump.'
Willis unsaid.
And to think we are just a month away from the CNN and MSNBC talking heads telling viewers how hush money is the worst crime ever.
A "master class"? Ha! Even my wife was laughing through the whole show yesterday afternoon.
I was born in Atlanta (Fulton County) 73 years ago yesterday. All through my school and college years - I went all the way through an MS in engineering without leaving - it was a great city. I left reluctantly in 1974 to take a really good job and after living elsewhere - TN and TX - for almost 50 years my wife and I returned to the Atlanta metro area several years ago to life out out remaining years. But there is no way I would live in Atlanta or Fulton County and you saw one of the reasons why yesterday. I live about 40 miles north of the city and only go there 10-12 times a year for football games or special events. The incorporated cities of Fulton County north of Atlanta - Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, and Milton - are nice places and often end up on these internet lists of best places to live. But if you do, well, there's your DA.
The long-term payoff to Willis for prosecuting Trump, successful or not, would have far exceeded the numbers we're seeing here. So she's crooked, mentally unstable, a liar, a homewrecker, and financially ignorant.
Sure she's not a Biden?
Classic Sadow. Always amusing. Definitely on purpose.
If she had all that cash, why didn't she pay her taxes?
She’s a genius OK. Clever, brilliant, move to hire a divorce attorney to be the SP in a case nvolvng a former POTUS.
The IRS and the Georgia Department of revenue are going to love this.
Fani admits to using thousands of campaign dollar thousands of campaign contributions for personal expenses.
Wade pays for personal expenses using his corporate credit card and claims to be reimbursed is cash. Is there any record of him reimbursing his law firm for the personal expenses on the corporate card? If not there is a tax issue as well as an embezzlement issue.
To paraphrase Ace from AoSHQ, white men just aren't doing their job positioning black women (Fani and Kamala) for success.
If idiot people in idiot locals want to elect an idiot prosecutor, that's their problem.
But when their idiocy threatens to disrupt a national election, then it becomes my problem.
Fuck these idiots.
It was early summer of 1966 when I was first on the street and was first tol the following by some one I had just arrested:
"you don't understand Officer, it's a black thing."
followed by: "you just arresting me cause I am black"
Rabel said...
“The long-term payoff to Willis for prosecuting Trump, successful or not, would have far exceeded the numbers we're seeing here. So she's crooked, mentally unstable, a liar, a homewrecker, and financially ignorant.
Sure she's not a Biden?”
A sister from another mother.
Wait… I thought the word “Master” was traumatizing and unacceptable, such that we can no longer use such terms as “Master Bedroom”.
But now Fani can teach a Master Class? No wonder some people are traumatized by this.
Blogger gilbar said...
Nope, it's better than that. She NEVER gave Wade ANY payment for "her share" of those bills (love nests, dinners, sex rooms, etc).
Yeah. You're right. She never paid him back a dime.
Fulton County tax payers picked up the tab for the vacations. I'm sure it's going on all over the place.
The testimony Willis's father is giving is just off the rails. Our justice system is completely destroyed.
"master class" is hardly an unknown word but I doubt I see it more than a couple times a year.
Except on YouTube. I regularly get ads for a trump university lookalike called "Masterclass". Paul Kruger wants to teach me economics, someone else wants to teach me guitar, there's someone teaching theology and other courses.
Is fani Willis hooked up with this organization?
Or is it just a coinkidink?
John Henry
Shouldn't a black lawyer be especially aware of the hazards of large amounts of cash?
I am thinking that if the cops discover 15 large in anyone's house, black or white it will be seized under asset forfieture.
John Henry
Listening to the father now. He seems a lot more competent than she did yesterday
John Henry
After my car died at the intersection of 75, 85, and 20, I lived and worked in Atlanta politics and convention I&D for 20 years. Now I live 45 miles north of the city and am still heading for the hills north of here.
The single most important thing I learned about Atlanta politics is this: it's not the black cops, laborers, aspiring middle class and working class folks electing these dirtbags: it's the white leftist elite, black elite, political radicals, and public employee unions.
My black cop friends, my neighbors near the crime-ridden federal pen, and my co-workers hated them as much, if not more, than I did. I learned some pretty unusual slang. And I miss them. They had my back when I was extremely dumb and young.
Behaviors that are utterly ridiculous for one audience can be extremely effective with other audiences. This I have learned to my dismay. This is especially true in the political arena where the need for an audience to believe something is sufficient to believe utter nonsense and obvious lies.
There are limits to these sorts of things, but in more extreme cases the self-correction is because all the stupid people have become too dumb to live and managed to remove themselves from future consideration.
There's no question that Willis is incredibly corrupt and should not only be disqualified but disbarred. Whether that can be accomplished in the current United States is unclear. Probably half the DOJ should be disbarred at this point, not to mention a large number of judges.
There's a live feed from the court today. Fun to watch. I wish these guys would use their fart buttons. Especially if they eat lunch at The Varsity.
"Obviously, she gave Wade cash to cover any transaction/paper trail."
She did not pay her idiot gigolo $640,000, just so she could pay him even more that she stole from her campaign. And by the way, about that campaign ...
IMHO she totally beclowned her self.
Was the dress really backwards ? Too funny.
IMHO she totally beclowned her self.
Was the dress really backwards ? Too funny.
I agree about keeping cash on by and. A thousand or two at all times
1) I once had a beef with the property tax people and they froze my wife's and my bank accounts
2) in 17 hurricane Maria knocked out the power for 4-5 months. For the first couple weeks there were no atms and nobody could accept credit or cash. It was hard to eat without cash.
John Henry
I had a client once make similar unprovable and unbelievable claims about paying for things with cash. He went to jail.
“That's MSNBC, take note.”
To be more precise, that’s a law school professor:
“Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, is the host of the "Passing Judgment" podcast. She is also the director of the Public Service Institute at Loyola Law School, director of Loyola's Journalist Law School and former president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission.”
Thinking a bit more about this, it appears that someone went to a lot of trouble to donate a bunch of money to Fani's campaign, in a way that would not be traceable to them (and not just Fani's, but that's another story). It's a simple matter to set up a PAC that promotes a candidate. Why would you use such an elaborate and complicated method instead? All I can think of is, the Democrats have made campaign finance so complicated that only Democrats are supposed to be able to buy politicians. If you were someone who is not legally allowed to participate in US politics at all, then you probably couldn't set up a PAC either. So, this would imply that it wasn't the Democrats, or George Soros, who bought Fani. Maybe a cartel? That's who bought Katie Hobbs, but she's in AZ. Actually, I suppose a cartel could use a DA in Fulton County.
John henry said...
Shouldn't a black lawyer be especially aware of the hazards of large amounts of cash?
a black lawyer, that specializes in applying RICO laws to non mob people
fify
Think about it! She SPECIALIZED in RICO law.. AND kept Thousands (TENS of THOUSANDS!) in cash on hand
I agree with Glenn Greenwald, who summarized it succinctly:
”How someone reacts to the Fani Willis testimony yesterday is a litmus test for if they're a complete partisan hack.
Anyone who denies that she clearly lied, could not respond to basic questions, acted inappropriately, and corrupted this prosecution is a mindless Dem partisan.”
Jake said...
Masterclass? Ok. She seemed to have taken a page from Trump's playbook. I watched some clips. She neither impressed nor offended me in any way.
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Oh really? Perhaps YOU could use a cognition test.
I've been waiting for someone to quote John 8:7, but it certainly doesn't seem to be the scripture being followed here."
The scripture being followed here is Mormon 4:5 from the Book of Mormon: "5 But, behold, the judgments of God will overtake the wicked; and it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished...."
God doesn't, and doesn't have to intervene. They do it to each other.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
"How someone reacts to the Fani Willis testimony yesterday is a litmus test for if they're a complete partisan hack.
Anyone who denies that she clearly lied, could not respond to basic questions, acted inappropriately, and corrupted this prosecution is a mindless Dem partisan."
I would like to be in the room when they're explaining this to the IRS.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/M9QjVrTwTHkDqpDG/?mibextid=oFDknk
i JUST filed my 2023 Income Tax Returns..
In the spirit of Fani, i explained to the IRS, that i'd ALREADY paid them ALL the money i owed..
IN Cash.. And that it wasn't MY problem that they had poor record keeping..
I hope that Leavenworth has good wifi, because i enjoy this blog site
She ranted and raved incoherently about ulterior motivations. Karmic irony.
"Fani admits to using thousands of campaign dollar thousands of campaign contributions for personal expenses."
It makes no difference. The state will never investigate her. The IRS will never investigate her.
It's a black thing.
It occurs to me, that the very best thing that could come out of all this is if Big Fani and her Big Dick are not disqualified. Just think how many people are now swarming over Fulton County, looking for further evidence of just exactly when those two started fucking. And whether Big Fani really stole money from her campaign, and where that campaign got its money in the first place, and ... This circus could last all year, with a disqualification hearing every two weeks. Three days of damning testimony, after which Judge No-Nuts intones, "Once again, I find you not guilty by reason of Negritude."
They must have muzzled the first MSNBC commentator who was appalled and said, basically, its over for Willis.
"Master class"? These leftmediaswine never quite. She was shockingly unprofessional. Engaging in personalities with the lawyers, jumping on the judge, rambling.
She paid her lover $650k, an exorbitant amount, to prosecute Trump. He had no experience with RICO. They concealed their relationship. Uncontradicted! End of story. The timeline and the trips were just icing.
"...a master class..."
Yikes. If you watch that person on the stand, and realize that she holds a high position of prosecutorial responsibility and authority, you despair for the future of the Republic.
What would be great is if the defendants were allowed to present the Willis evidence to the jury in their defense, not simply as a basis for disqualification.
This all points to a troubling trend, which pretty much says that Judges, Prosecutors and the Government are corrupt and hiding behind the Law. Ann justed posted above about a 'Sham' verdict (not allowing comments) with only the NYT article being posted about Trump's $300 million verdict in NY State. These Leaders of Institutions have damaged Institutions of the Courts, Prosecutors and Leaders of the Political branches of our government. Tell us how that does not damage our country. The corruption is on naked display and the powers to be don't give a damn about the (middle class)peasants and their everyday issues. The abuses of power and outright corruption on public display is breathtaking. Where are the Leaders of the Judiciary - hiding behind their black robes and the Law which is in shambles. To be honest, Ann, you are a former Law Professor and your opinion would help our readers regarding the 'massive damage' this has cost our Institutions - so let's have comments. I'm not political and don't care for Trump. But if Trump was treated with such disdain where does the average person go for justice without the same resources?
Pro-Choice ethical religion for commerce, civil rights, human rights, science, etc. lays the foundation for a progressive path and grade.
"generally support Willis" is a pretty interesting formulation.
Judge Engoron was bad news for Trump. Fatuous, brags about "getting a little rough" with his radical pals in the Sixties, openly partisan leftist. Behaves like a clown in the courtroom. Played in a band! An unserious person. I at least expect judges (and DAs) to use proper English. This was shockingly childish.
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