Fani Willis thought the witch hunt she led was the biggest problem in her life.
She could find out what it’s like to be under the microscope.
And Fani Willis was a nervous wreck after a lawyer let the cat out of the bag on one bad problem.
Lawyer who exposed Fani Willis predicts Trump Justice Department could investigate her
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has watched her criminal case against Donald Trump and his allies over the 2020 Election fall apart.
The Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified her from the case because of an “appearance of impropriety” when she hired her secret lover Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor on the Trump case.
Trump’s Fulton County case is all but dead unless the unlikely event that another Georgia prosecutor picks up the case.
Willis went from thinking she would have Trump thrown in jail to being humiliated because of her corruption.
Her problems with the Trump case could just be getting started.
Georgia lawyer Ashleigh Merchant exposed the secret relationship between Willis and Wade while representing Trump’s ally Mike Roman in the case.
She predicted that Willis could be investigated by the incoming Trump Justice Department.
“I would be shocked if she wasn’t investigated by the new Justice Department,” Merchant said.
Fani Willis knew her case against Trump was flimsy
Merchant said that Willis could have avoided being disqualified from the case if she passed it off to a new prosecutor.
“She could have done the right thing early on, whenever we brought this to everyone’s attention, and said, ‘Hey, let’s have a neutral prosecutor handle this case,‘” Merchant explained. “‘Let’s have someone else look at it.’ But I think she was terrified because her case was so weak, she didn’t want someone else to look at it.”
The weakness of Willis’ case is why it’s unlikely that another prosecutor in Georgia will pick it up.
Wade was paid more than $600,000 by Fulton County taxpayers for his work as a special prosecutor.
He had never tried a felony case and was working private practice, mostly handling divorces.
Willis paid him a higher rate than experts on Georgia’s RICO statute that she was using to charge Trump and his allies with.
Wade used the money from his position to pay for Willis to go on luxurious vacations.
Merchant said that Willis’ conflict of interest in the case became something that was too big for anyone to ignore.
“It’s one of those things that you know it when you see it,” Merchant stated. “It’s the appearance of impropriety. It is so great that it had to be enough to kick them off the case.”
Willis wanted the fame and glory of prosecuting the Trump case for herself.
Another prosecutor would have seen the case for the politically motivated sham that it was.
“I’ve always thought, if a neutral prosecutor – someone who didn’t have a financial interest in this case and a political interest in this case – looked at it, that they would see things differently,” Merchant said. “And they would decide that the taxpayers, the courts, the people who are charging the case, they deserve this case to be dismissed.”
Fani Willis’ problems could just be beginning when the Trump Justice Department takes office next year.
