Georgia DA Accuses Critics of ‘Playing the Race Card’ after Allegedly Tapping Ex-Boyfriend to Lead Trump Prosecution - “You can not expect black women to be perfect and save the world-“

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Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis argued in a speech on Sunday that the Trump associate who accused her of appointing a former romantic partner to oversee the prosecution of the former president was motivated by racism.

“Wait a minute, God. You did not tell me as a woman of color it would not matter what I did — my motive, my talent, my ability and my character would be constantly attacked,” Willis told congregants at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, reading from a letter she had written. “Oh Lord, they’re going to be mad when they call us out on this nonsense. First thing they’ll say, ‘Oh, she’s going to play the racism card now.’”

“Isn’t it them playing the race card when they constantly think I need someone from some other jurisdiction in some other state to tell me how to do a job I’ve been doing almost 30 years?”

While she did not explicitly name Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she appointed to oversee the Trump election interference case in Georgia, Willis referred to the attorney as a “superstar” as well as “a great friend and a great lawyer.” The district attorney did not comment on whether or not she had been romantically involved with Wade, though she did acknowledge having made mistakes.

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world,” Willis said. “We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace.”

Trump also seized on the allegations, telling a rally in Indianola, Iowa, that it was clear evidence of corruption. “You saw Fani Willis gave her boyfriend a million bucks to go get Trump, right?” the former president said on the campaign trail ahead of Monday’s primary vote. “She’s been exposed. I can’t imagine they can continue on with that case.”

Last Monday, the legal representatives of Michael Roman, who briefly served as a researcher and special assistant to then-President Trump, accused Willis of impropriety in a court filing. “The district attorney and the special prosecutor have been seen in private together in and about the Atlanta area and believed to have co-habited in some form or fashion at a location owned by neither of them,” Roman’s attorneys wrote.

Wade was paid $654,000by Fulton County for his work on the Trump case, according to Rowan’s suit.

However, the submission did not offer any explicit proof of the DA’s connection to Wade, claiming only that “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed they had an ongoing, personal relationship.” Wade was paid over half a million dollars throughout his involvement in the Trump election-interference case, which Willis has overseen and authorized.

“That does not mean that her decisions were in fact improperly motivated,” NYU law school professor Stephen Gillers told the Journal-Constitution explaining the allegations. “It does mean that the public and the state, as her client, could not have the confidence in the independent judgment that her position required her to exercise.”

Rowan’s legal team also questioned Wade’s experience. “The research reveals that the special prosecutor never tried a felony RICO case. The State of Georgia and the City of Atlanta has several lawyers who specialize in the prosecuting and defending RICO cases,” the filing reads. “Despite having access to these resources, why would the district attorney, instead, appoint someone who has never tried a felony RICO case, particularly in a case with such national significance as this one?”

In mid August, the former president and over a dozen associates were indicted by a Georgia grand jury over allegations that they sought to overturn the 2020 presidential-election results. Trump was charged with conspiracy to commit forgery, filing false documents, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer, and violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Other notable defendants named in the nearly 100-page indictment include former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and members of Trump’s legal team, notably: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell.

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment reads. “That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.”

Representative Jim Jordan sent a letter to Wade on Friday demanding documents and information as part of an investigation into “politically motivated” prosecutions in the Fulton County DA’s office.

“Based on recent reports, we believe that you possess documents and information about the coordination of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office (FCDAO) with other politically motivated investigations and prosecutions and the potential misuse of federal funds,” Jordan wrote to Wade in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.

The Judiciary Committee chairman added that he has “serious concerns about the degree of improper coordination among politicized actors, including the Biden White House, to investigate and prosecute President Biden’s chief political opponent.”

 

[Muttley]

“Wait a minute, God. You did not tell me as a woman of color it would not matter what I did — my motive, my talent, my ability and my character would be constantly attacked,” Willis told congregants at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, reading from a letter she had written. “Oh Lord, they’re going to be mad when they call us out on this nonsense. First thing they’ll say, ‘Oh, she’s going to play the racism card now.’”

It sounds to me like she's bloviating in church that her detractors are racist, rather than accusing specific critics of being racist.

Should a prosecutor who goes and does performative shit like this about the trial really be the person in charge of overseeing prosecution the former president?
This seems uh... very narcissistic. Right?

This nigger is praying out loud like a Pharisee.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

A clean democrat is a myth. A unicorn that doesn't exist. Not a one of them has not been some corrupt stain on the fabric of America. This would be international headline news if these two were republicans.

And when they get caught, they cry racism, sexism, or homophobia to throw off any accountability. Her own words hang her

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world,” Willis said. “We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace.”

How fucking pathetic and slimy does your ass have to be to write this and than speak it a loud, and in front of a church congregation no less. That line is so god-damn pathetic, it might as well be a random_text.

A nearly 30 year long career black woman lawyer making an ass of her self after stealing 100s of thousands of taxpayer dollars and getting caught; all during her career defining case of prosecuting a supposed corrupt former U.S. president is just peak clown world. You couldn't publish this as fiction. Nobody would believe it.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

If you hire a black woman, you should expect that she's going to engage in corruption and behave unethically and unprofessionally, and then refuse to take responsibility for her illegal and immoral behavior.

Exactly. That's what I've been saying all along.

 

[Back me up!]

Lol just look at Baltimore, MD. There was a literally a streak of 3 black female mayors in a row that had corruption charges and had to either resign or not run for re-election. You put a black women in power? Yeah, you'r gonna get fraud.

 

[whogoesthere]

Black women are fucking useless sacks of cum. Nothing ever good came from a black woman.

 

[Not Really Here]

Lol just look at Baltimore, MD. There was a literally a streak of 3 black female mayors in a row that had corruption charges and had to either resign or not run for re-election. You put a black women in power? Yeah, you'r gonna get fraud.

On this nigger day I would like to inform you they call theft a "come up."

 

[kobrum]

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world,” Willis said. “We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace.”

imagine having such a clear connection like this that can cause concerns, not disclose it and then say something like this. Its like she wanted her job to be on the line potentially, or at least for everything she does moving forward to be scrutinized deeper.

 

[The Last Stand]

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world,” Willis said. “We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace.”

Maybe don't create that narcissist pedestal with yourselves that they DEMAND the rest of the world respects.

MLK Jr. must be rolling in his grave.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Black women are fucking useless sacks of cum. Nothing ever good came from a black woman.

Gross. The majority of black women are unfuckable.

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world,” Willis said. “We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace.”

Weird, cause one way to move in the direction of grace would be to avoid being a fraudulent, homewrecking, race baiting, diversity hire piece of shit

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

And when they get caught, they cry racism, sexism, or homophobia to throw off any accountability. Her own words hang her

How fucking pathetic and slimy does your ass have to be to write this and than speak it a loud, and in front of a church congregation no less. That line is so god-damn pathetic, it might as well be a random_text.

A nearly 30 year long career black woman lawyer making an ass of her self after stealing 100s of thousands of taxpayer dollars and getting caught; all during her career defining case of prosecuting a supposed corrupt former U.S. president is just peak clown world. You couldn't publish this as fiction. Nobody would believe it.

This would seriously get rejected if a writer submitted it as a Law & Order plot. It's a level of corruption that's just too fantastical and cartoony to be believed.

 

[Troonos]

Is there a demographic more insufferable and shitty than black women? I can't think of one. I'd trade every one of them for Pajeets any day.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Is there a demographic more insufferable and shitty than black women? I can't think of one. I'd trade every one of them for Pajeets any day.

Do Australian aboriginals count as black? At least American negresses typically don't grow facial hair.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Between this and the Claudine Gay plagiarism story, this entire #BlackGirlMagic sham is about as more scary as the #girlboss movement. Nothing is more pathetic than trying to think that you can speak for all black women in America, while still pretending as if you’re some kind of victim.

I mean, seriously:

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world,” Willis said. “We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace.”

This is literal Main Character Syndrome at full display. A literal prosecutor engaging in full corruption acting as if she’s some kind of ballerina in a figure skating rink.

You just can not make this stuff up.

 

[Tuxedo_Zemus]

Literally no one expects black women to be perfect. Not blacks themselves, not their simping white liberal enablers, and certainly not their jewish masters. The low standards are a given at this point, and likely always were.

 

[The Dude]

The whole thing stinks to high Heaven. Let's not forget that Fulton County is where all the shady shit went down during the election, like that ballot processor scanning the same stack of ballots over and over and over again.

 

[clipartfan92]

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Some background info:
Georgia prosecutor under scrutiny in Trump case was held in contempt last year
Politico (archive.ph)
By Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney
2024-01-13 21:20:41GMT

Spoiler

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was recently accused of having a romantic relationship with DA Fani Willis, disobeyed a court order in his divorce proceeding.

Spoiler

Just three days after Georgia prosecutors indicted Donald Trump last summer, one of the lead prosecutors on the case faced some legal trouble of his own.

The prosecutor, Nathan Wade, was held in contempt for defying a court order in an acrimonious divorce proceeding with his wife. Wade, a judge in Cobb County, Ga., ruled, had “willfully” failed to turn over documents about his income — including, his wife later said, income from his work on the Trump case.

Wade’s divorce became abruptly intertwined with the Trump prosecution this week, when a lawyer for one of Trump’s co-defendants alleged in a court filing that Wade has been having an affair with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Shortly after the allegation became public, Wade’s wife, Jocelyn, served Willis with a subpoena seeking her testimony in the divorce proceeding.

The lawyer who alleged the affair has not offered proof, and Willis has said she would respond in court documents. A lawyer for Wade declined to comment.

Even aside from the salacious allegation, the contempt ruling against Wade in August 2023 shows that he was fighting his own deeply personal legal battle — and getting admonished by a judge — as he was helping run one of the most consequential criminal cases in American history: the indictment of Trump and numerous allies for their bid to subvert the state’s 2020 election results.

Wade is himself a divorce lawyer — the website for his Atlanta law firm touts “decades of experience” handling divorce cases. He has little experience running complex, high-profile criminal prosecutions, and Willis’ decision to hire him as a “special prosecutor” in the Trump case has come under intense scrutiny in recent days.

It’s unclear if Wade was fined or received any other punishment under the contempt ruling. He appears to have eventually turned over the income documents in question, according to court records.

But any finding of contempt represents a serious and uncommon rebuke from a judge, experts on Georgia family law said.

“This is bizarre,” said Randall Kessler, an Atlanta divorce lawyer who formerly chaired the American Bar Association’s Family Law Section. “The judge basically said, ‘Shame on you.’”

“To actually be found in willful contempt, it’s not a good position,” said Yaniv Heled, a professor at Georgia State College of Law who focuses on family law. “It’s not a place where you want to be with the judge.”

A special prosecutor in the spotlight
Wade joined Willis’ team as an outside contractor on Nov. 1, 2021. The next day, he filed for divorce from his wife of more than 24 years, Joycelyn Wade.

In the two years since then, he has been paid nearly $700,000 from the Fulton County district attorney’s office for his work helping to lead the Trump case, according to a court filing from his wife.

On Jan. 8, a lawyer for Mike Roman, a former 2020 Trump campaign official who is charged alongside Trump with a racketeering conspiracy to subvert the election, filed court documents in the criminal case accusing Wade and Willis of having a “clandestine” romantic relationship. Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, also alleged that the two used some of Wade’s earnings from the Trump case to vacation together. Merchant is seeking to have Willis and Wade disqualified and to have the case dismissed — an outcome that legal experts say is unlikely. Trump and Roman have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case, said in court Friday that he expects to hold a hearing on Merchant’s allegations in early February. The case does not yet have a trial date.

In the meantime, the allegations are roiling a sprawling and highly sensitive case. Trump has amplified the allegations on social media, even as his lawyer, Steve Sadow, told the judge that he was “leery” of joining Merchant’s call for Willis’ disqualification. The district attorney herself may become a witness in Wade’s divorce proceeding. And new scrutiny of the legal documents in the divorce — a case file that has since been sealed — offers details about how Wade disobeyed a court order amid a drawn-out dispute over his income.

Throughout 2022 and 2023, lawyers for Wade’s wife accused Wade of failing to turn over documents showing how much money he made — a common exchange of information in divorce proceedings.

The information Wade did provide “was so woefully inadequate as to be useless,” his wife’s lawyers wrote in court papers.

Wade, for his part, said he had provided all required documents. Wade’s lawyer accused Wade’s wife in court papers of “being stubbornly litigious and dragging the matter out for no stated reasons.”

‘Willful contempt’
On May 10, 2023, Judge Henry Thompson, who is overseeing the divorce, concluded that Wade had “inadequately responded” to his wife’s discovery requests. He ordered the prosecutor to turn over a host of financial documents, including all income statements since 2016. If Wade didn’t comply, the judge threatened, he could face contempt and sanctions.

Three months later, the judge determined that Wade hadn’t complied. On Aug. 17, 2023, during the same week that Wade helped obtain an indictment in the Trump case, the judge issued an order finding Wade in “willful contempt” of his directive. If he wanted to avoid sanctions, the order added, he needed to deliver the material within 10 days.

There is no indication in the documents reviewed by POLITICO that Wade was sanctioned.

But over a month later, Wade’s wife moved to reopen discovery — meaning she believed her husband still hadn’t given her all the information she needed.

And, the motion added, she had just learned that her husband was working on the Trump prosecution.

“Plaintiff has not produced one single document evidencing this income,” the motion read. “Plaintiff has not produced one single bank statement indicating where those funds have gone.”

On Oct. 24, 2023, the judge granted her motion to reopen discovery. Less than two months later, Wade’s wife told the divorce court that her husband had earned almost $700,000 for his work on the Trump case since May of 2022. She added that he had given her “nearly nothing” in financial support — a claim that Wade’s lawyers disputed in court papers.

Kessler, the Atlanta divorce lawyer, said it’s unusual for judges to hold people in contempt during divorce proceedings. That’s because they give the parties so many chances to comply.

“It is rare that it gets to this level,” he said.

But Kessler added that he thinks it’s unlikely Wade was scheming to keep his income from the Trump case a secret. That’s because the work was so public-facing, drawing national media attention.

 

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[Troonos]

Do Australian aboriginals count as black? At least American negresses typically don't grow facial hair.

I mean, they're clearly the lowest IQ evolutionary throwbacks on earth, but I'd prefer my shitskins drink gasoline and consider shitty cave paintings to be art, than get in massive brawls at Disney World and throw chairs at some teenager at McDonalds because they got the wrong sauce with their fries.

 

[clipartfan92]

Prosecutor on Trump Georgia Case Avoids Testifying in Divorce Proceeding
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim
2024-01-31 03:46:11GMT

The special prosecutor leading the election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump will not have to testify this week about an alleged romantic relationship with his boss, Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, after reaching a temporary agreement in his divorce case on Tuesday.

The agreement between the special prosecutor, Nathan J. Wade, and his wife, Joycelyn Wade, leaves unanswered for the time being a question that has created potential peril for Ms. Willis’s high-profile prosecution of Mr. Trump and 14 of his allies.

Ms. Willis hired Mr. Wade, a lawyer in private practice, in 2021 to help run the Trump case, saying that she needed a trustworthy confidant for the job. But a filing three weeks ago from one of Mr. Trump’s co-defendants, Michael Roman, claimed that the two prosecutors were romantically involved and had taken vacations paid for by Mr. Wade.

Mr. Roman argues that this amounts to a conflict of interest, and is grounds for removing both prosecutors, as well as Ms. Willis’s entire office, from the case.

So far, neither Mr. Wade nor Ms. Willis have confirmed or denied the allegations of a relationship. But in recent days, it seemed increasingly likely that Mr. Wade would be forced to address the claims at a divorce hearing on Wednesday, where he was expected to take the stand.

The hearing was scuttled at the last minute, with an agreement announced by the judge on Tuesday afternoon. “We can confirm that this is a temporary agreement in place while the final details are worked out,” said a spokeswoman for Andrea Dyer Hastings, Ms. Wade’s divorce lawyer.

Ms. Hastings further explained on Tuesday evening that “while this negates the immediate need for a hearing, it does not settle the case.” She added that the issues of temporary alimony and attorneys’ fees “have been resolved.” The couples’ children are adults.

Mr. Wade married Ms. Wade in 1997 and filed for divorce more than two years ago.

Ms. Willis has until Friday to respond to Mr. Roman’s filing. It is not clear whether she will address the relationship allegations in her response.

The filing from Mr. Roman, a former Trump campaign staff member, did not offer proof of the romantic relationship between the prosecutors. But it said that they had been seen “in a personal relationship capacity” around Atlanta, and claimed that people close to both of them had confirmed it.

Mr. Wade has reaped more than $650,000 in legal fees since Ms. Willis hired him in November 2021. Mr. Roman’s filing said that Ms. Willis, by taking vacations that Mr. Wade paid for, had been “profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.” That, he said, was the conflict of interest.

The allegations do not change the underlying facts of the case, which assert that Mr. Trump and his allies engaged in a plot to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Four of the 19 original defendants have already pleaded guilty, including some of Mr. Trump’s staunchest defenders. One of them, Jenna Ellis, said tearfully during a hearing late last year that she looked back on what she did “with deep remorse.”

Legal experts disagree on the strength of Mr. Roman’s filing, and whether it will convince the presiding judge in the case, Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court, that the prosecution team should be removed. Mr. Roman’s filing also asks that the seven felony charges against him be dismissed.

But the accusations have created other serious complications for Ms. Willis. Fulton County has begun an inquiry and asked Ms. Willis to provide numerous documents, including invoices and payments to special prosecutors; the county commission does not, however, have the power to remove the elected district attorney.

A new commission established by Republican lawmakers to oversee prosecutors is expected to review Ms. Willis’s conduct, and could pose a graver threat. Though the legislature has not yet determined the extent of the commission’s powers, it will most likely be able to punish or remove Georgia prosecutors.

Also on Tuesday, Ashleigh Merchant, Mr. Roman’s lawyer, filed a lawsuit against the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, accusing the office of “intentionally withholding information in advance of scheduled evidentiary hearings.”

Ms. Merchant stated that she had filed public records requests for a variety of documents but had not received some of them, including invoices for payments from the office to Mr. Wade in 2023 and copies of reimbursements to Ms. Willis for travel expenses.

A correction was made on Jan. 30, 2024:
An earlier version of this article misidentified the status of Nathan Wade’s divorce case. He and his wife reached a temporary agreement, not a settlement. The error was repeated in a headline and push notification.