It’s hard to think of how the Thursday testimony of Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis, his paramour, could have gone any better for former President Donald Trump.
The two attorneys testified under oath in an evidentiary hearing over their romantic relationship (Wade was married to another woman at the time) whether or not Willis, the elected district attorney of Fulton County, had financially benefited from appointing Wade to be a special prosecutor in the case.
Willis is spearheading one of the most high-profile prosecutions against Trump and several other defendants, including Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, for objecting to the 2020 election results in Georgia and trying to have those results overturned.
But at issue on Thursday specifically was a series of lavish trips that Willis and Wade took together over the course of the last two years. These trips included excursions to California wine country in Napa and beautiful tropical beach vacations to Belize, Aruba, and the Bahamas. There was also a cruise with Wade’s mother that Willis tagged along for.
This is EXACTLY why I filed my ethics complaint against Fani Willis and Nathan Wade.
Fani Willis admits she has no proof that she reimbursed Nathan Wade for their lavish vacations, but paid rent via an app!
She must be criminally investigated! pic.twitter.com/QIm5x6tcFq
— Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@mtgreenee) February 15, 2024
Supposedly, Willis had reimbursed Wade for her half of the trips, a key detail that would undermine the case that she benefited from Wade’s appointment. Wade and his law firm were being paid $300,000 by the state of Georgia to work on Willis’s team.
But in the evidentiary hearing, Wade claimed that the Fulton County district attorney reimbursed him with cash, thereby eliminating any paper trail that could verify that she did, in fact, reimburse him the thousands of dollars that he spent on the trips, which he also admitted were paid for with his business credit card.
Willis, on the stand, then stood firm on the dubious claim and said that she typically keeps thousands of dollars in cash around her house, which is why there would be no record of her even withdrawing the money from a bank or ATM.
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Is it possible that Willis and Wade are telling the truth? Maybe. But to say that their claims of cash reimbursements strain credulity would be a gross understatement, especially given that the credibility of the two attorneys is already in serious doubt.
Trump should be very thankful that Willis and Wade are leading the prosecution against him in Georgia. Their incompetent corruption may save him and his co-defendants from ever facing a jury in a case that has been nakedly political from the get-go.