Not since Donald Trump have we seen someone as unfiltered and unpredictable as DA Fani Willis, who stomped into the courtroom like a pint-sized Godzilla and delivered what has to be the single most entertaining testimony in the history of trials.
With dialogue better than any Hollywood screenwriter could come up with, Willis had a lot to say. She went in with guns blazing, ready to destroy every single lawyer in the courtroom.
Haughty and outraged that anyone would dare question her behavior, she was sometimes evasive and defensive. Then she would get quiet and tell a tender story about her father, Nathan Wade’s mother, or her children. She alternated between playing the victim and playing the bully. It was riveting television.
She went back and forth between being angry and being confessional. She was not going to admit that she had an affair with Nathan Wade before he was hired on the Trump case.
When she wasn’t calling the defense counsel a “liar,” she was delivering a somber monologue about how lonely it was to turn 50 and sit home all alone with no lover boy by her side.
We heard about cruises, about “southern gentleman.” We heard about what a great friend Nathan Wade had been and how she kept cash everywhere. No matter where she lays her head, she has a fat wad of cash tucked away. She’s not a fan of wine. She likes Grey Goose, in case you didn’t know!
Other than paying Nathan Wade in cash, what seemed most damning to me (although I’m not a lawyer) was the difference between flat-broke Fani and rolling-in-dough Fani. One can’t help but think of this and imagine Fani and Nathan singing it.
Their affair didn’t seem salacious so much as a true love story. It didn’t seem to occur to them that there was anything wrong with taking trips to Napa, taking cruises, going to restaurants as the cash poured in.
Fani was even more upset by a former “close friend,” who testified that she knew Fani Willis and Nathan Wade were in a relationship before 2022, maybe as early as 2019:
I thought Nathan Wade came off as a much more sympathetic and reliable witness and should have been the one to do the talking.
Either way, I doubt our corrupt government will care one way or the other. They are determined to GET TRUMP and have set a trial date for March 25 to begin the “hush money” case in New York. The more they go after him, the more people like me will support him.
I would be lying if I felt optimistic about any of this.
I hope they end up disgraced, destroyed, and humiliated for what they’ve done to this country and themselves.
But for now, I’m enjoying the spectacle out in Georgia. Willis is a powder keg and is just one question away from admitting she ordered the Code Red.
The most maddening part of all of this is that you are right, Sasha, nothing will happen to Willis or Wade. As long as it "get's Trump" it's all a-ok. Just like nothing will happen to those involved in Russiagate (Matt Taibbi has a great Substack about that today). There is no more justice in this country. None.
I was a Deputy District Attorney in California for 38+ years. Now retired. Have been through very heated moments in court many times where I have been accused of wrongdoing. Have testified under oath on some of those occasions.
A prosecutor must always maintain their composure and professional demeanor. No matter what. Ms Willis fell seriously short of the mark.
She did a very poor job as a witness.
She was insulting and unprofessional. Her body language and demeanor show a prosecutor who clearly could not professionally handle normal questioning.
In all candor, she was an embarrassment to all public prosecutors throughout the country.