Not surprising that his playbook in the courts,
Deny, delay and attack, always play the victim, never stop undermining the system
Is eerily similar to the narcissist’s playbook of DARVO
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Rumors about this have been swirling for a while, but it looks like it’s official now: Georgia D.A. Fani Willis appears to have had an improper relationship with the Special Prosecutor she hired for the Trump case.
The MAGA crowd are absolutely elated that they finally have evidence of prosecutorial impropriety in one of Trump’s cases that isn’t completely made up. (Probably.)
Goddammit.
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One of their main arguments that I heard in the news is that she never should have hired him because he’s grossly unqualified and in over his head in this case. And if that’s true then it reflects poorly on her, sure, but it also means that Trump’s team is up against an unqualified prosecutor rather than a skilled one, which they should be happy about.
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I would hardly call that “official.” Let’s see what Wills’ testimony is. She’ll be under oath and extremely unlikely to lie about it. And even if it’s true, it’s bad judgement to assign Wade the special prosecutor position but doesn’t actually represent any corruption regarding the election interference case.
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Yeah, that… this is a divorce preceding, so claims should be taken with a grain of salt… and them taking a trip together doesn’t necessarily mean what they want to imply it means…
Of course, it doesn’t matter to the MAGA crowd, because her existing while Black means that anything she does is not legitimate, especially in a role such as a DA…
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It would make her look corrupt though. Any way you slice it, a government official allocating a significant sum of taxpayer money to hire their secret lover as a contractor on a case is not the kind of thing we should just shrug off.
Hopefully it does turn out to be an untrue accusation, but if it is true it’s going to hurt her reputation and credibility in ways that are bound to damage the case against Trump.
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Is that even a thing anymore?
I mean, if looking corrupt was a problem, T**** and all his cronies would have been sent to the Phantom Zone decades ago.
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Sure, but I’d still bet good money that they did have some kind of romantic relationship at some point. She gave a public speech at a church a few days ago defending his character and qualifications while pointedly refusing to confirm or deny that they’d had a romantic relationship. This is becoming a big enough deal that if they had categorically never had a romantic relationship I have to imagine she would have said that by now.
Of course that’s far from proof of anything. But legal proof isn’t required for members of the public to decide what they think probably happened.
Obviously, she couldn’t be as corrupt as Trump if she tried.
But think of it this way: if she would show that lack of judgment and impartiality in what is likely the most important case of her entire career then just imagine the shenanigans that are probably going down in all the other cases her office is prosecuting.
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Does it? Seems like it depends on what happened with the trips…
Which is not an established fact, yet… she also hired two other people for these positions, both of whom were paid the same as Wade…
That too…
How many white men who held this exact same position did far much more than maybe having a “secret lover” (which… 
). But once again, Black women get held to far higher standards than literally anyone else on the fucking planet…
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That’s a lot of speculation when she’s going to be testifying under oath about it in 4 days. Maybe dial it back until then?
What really would be corruption would be if, as Willis filed in her response to the subpoena, that the defendents in the election interference case are funding Jocelyn Wade’s investigators trying to discredit Willis. That would be serious misconduct worthy of additional charges.
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If they had a relationship, that is not a scandal.
If she hired him using taxpayer dollars without disclosing their romantic relationship that is pretty corrupt. If I used college funds to hire a T.A. that I had an undisclosed relationship with then I’d probably be fired, and rightly so.
So I hope she did not.
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That seems pretty likely to me… We all know that divorces can get messy…and the Trump team (and frankly, even the more moderate Republicans) would love to take down Willis on something like this… But I’m guessing that Willis is well aware that Black women are held to a much higher standard than white men (and even Black men, to some degree) and she has to be careful, because even a whiff of impropriety hurts not just her, but other Black women in her field… She’s a smart woman and I’m skeptical until there is some real proof, not just innuendo from a divorce case that is being backed by people we KNOW are fucking shady as hell…
And at this point, it’s STILL speculation. And again, she did not give him a job outside of what anyone else would get paid, but in fact hired a totally a 3 people doing the same job and paid them all the same…
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it’d definitely be wrong. if not necessarily more wrong than throwing the job to a friend who you are not in a romantic relationship with.
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She’s trying to avoid testifying, so we’ll see if she ends up on the record or not.
So she’s saying that since the marriage was already broken that nothing that she could testify to would be relevant.
Clearly public figures shouldn’t automatically be assumed to be guilty based on the fact that they don’t want to respond to every rumor or evidence-free accusation. And she may well be innocent. But she’s going way out of her way to avoid saying that she didn’t have a relationship with this guy.
Of course if that friend is paying for you to accompany them on vacations then it creates a financial conflict of interest even if it’s a platonic relationship.
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That’s incredibly common in business. It would barely register as a blip on the corruption radar. It’s different in the public sector, but again, almost zero of the people who are using this as a gotcha would survive any scrutiny if that’s the threshold for losing credibility.
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Certainly not Trump or his allies.
Still, that’s a pretty low bar.
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The law needs to be applied equally. If it is disqualifying for Willis, then there are a shit-ton of Republicans who also have to be disqualified. If they aren’t, then there is zero reason to disqualify Willis, regarldess of how low the bar is.
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i do agree about that, although how much i personally care depends on the degree.
i do hope people will point out while she and her friend are on the same side of this case… up in the supreme court thomas is judging cases his friends have brought before the court and taking gifts worth millions.
one is a bad idea; the other is both corrupt and harmful.
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