Oops: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — a lefty folk hero for prosecuting Donald Trump and a dozen-plus others over alleged 2020 election fraud — stands accused of a major and embarrassing ethical violation: improperly hiring a private attorney and alleged paramour to help bring the case.
Sure seems like everyone who cites high principle when they go after Trump has a less lofty agenda.
Willis hired Nathan Wade in 2021 to go after the former president; the man has so far billed more than $650,000 in legal fees (all out of the taxpayers’ pockets, natch).
Yet he has no experience prosecuting a complex RICO case like this one.
Wade, according to a bombshell court filing, spent some of that moolah on lavish vacations with Willis to Napa, Florida and the Caribbean.
That’s even as he left his wife of 26 years to struggle financially literally the day after Willis hired him.
Oh, and Wade’s wife has subpoenaed Willis to appear in the divorce case, apparently to testify as to just when the alleged affair began.
Don’t forget that Georgia law requires a DA to get a county’s approval before making an outside hire — but she skipped that step.
Guess stuff like that’s for the little people, huh, Fani?
On top of this low-rent soap opera, Willis’ racketeering case is playing out far worse than the anti-Trump-clickbait press would have you believe.
Yes, she’s racked up multiple guilty pleas from various Trump associates — but only to minor charges, with ultralight sentences and nothing that can bolster the central conspiracy claim.
Lib-pleasing headlines now, but with another lib-infuriating result all too likely ahead, just as with Russiagate.
Now, none of this in any way absolves Trump; it just goes to the largely unreported dubiousness of all the “Get him!” lawfare.
Fact is, the mass politicization of justice here, from the Alvin Bragg and Tish James prosecutions in New York to Willis’ operation in Georgia, rivals Trump’s sustained 2020 election denialism when it comes to undermining faith in our system of government.
Not that the “Democracy endangered” crowd dares admit it.
