Fani Willis learned the hard way that she’s her own worst enemy.
She’s left her career and future in tatters.
And Fani Willis made one wrong move that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
Fani Willis’ foolish behavior caused the Trump case to collapse
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was dealt what is likely a fatal blow to her criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump and his allies over contesting the results of the 2020 Election in Georgia.
The Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified her from the case after her improper relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Willis hired Wade while she was secretly in a relationship with him causing a conflict of interest.
Wade was paid more than $600,000 for his work on the Trump case.
He used that money to take Willis on luxury vacations, according to bank records.
Former prosecutor Phil Holloway said that Willis’ reckless statements outside the courtroom also helped her get thrown off the Trump case during an appearance on Fox News.
“This is the one that has the elected district attorney taking lots of taxpayer money, funneling it to her admitted paramour and then benefiting from that financial arrangement, by virtue of all the romantic trips and the getaways and all those things,” Holloway explained.
He noted that Willis’ explanations about her relationship with Wade didn’t hold water.
“So, if it is not a direct kickback it certainly has the smell of potentially a kickback, and her testimony, of course, they said had the ‘odor of mendacity,’ which means that nobody believed her testimony when she tried to explain this,” Holloway added.
Fani Willis’ big mouth helped get disqualified from the Trump case
Willis melted down in public after her secret relationship with Wade was exposed.
She played the race card during an appearance at a black church.
Holloway said that and other public statements contributed to her being thrown off the case.
“But it is more than the conflict of interest with Nathan Wade,” Holloway said. “This is also about what we call forensic misconduct. There’s out-of-court statements where Miss Willis goes into the well of a local church here in Fulton County, Georgia, which is full of potential voters and full of potential jurors, by the way, I might add, and maligns and impugns the various defendants out in a very public way.”
Her public comments in the case tainted the potential jury pool.
“Prosecutors aren’t allowed to do that,” Holloway stated. “They’re not allowed to try their case, so to speak, on the courthouse steps nor in the well of a church.”
Willis brought a politically motivated case against Trump and watched it collapse because of her missteps.
Her only hope now is to appeal the case to the Georgia Supreme Court, which is a longshot to reverse the appeals court decision.
Another Georgia prosecutor could take over the case but that’s unlikely.
Fani Willis’ lack of discipline sank what she thought was going to be the case that brought down Donald Trump.