Comment from Andrew Weissmann (who I despise):

“The key is how to go forward because clearly Wade is off, but I think this is such a huge body blow, almost a fatal blow to Fani Willis,” he said. “I think the way forward is she has to voluntarily recuse herself. I don’t know that she has it in her, but I think she has to say I’m going to appoint a chief assistant who is going to oversee this case. She clearly has no credibility with this judge.”

https://hotair.com/headlines/2...s-to-recuse-n3784755

I agree that this trailer park Perry Mason doesn't have the strength and integrity it takes to recuse herself. All throughout this fiasco, it's been clear that her actions are ego-driven.

The prosecution will really be hamstrung without the brilliant lawyering by wade. I think the defense made a mistake in their conflict of interest motive, and needed to somehow relate it to improper or selective prosecution of the defendents if possible. I think as an outside non lawyer observer that the monetary motive was weak, but they thought it strong enough, and maybe it should have been.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
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So, let's keep moving forward, and see what tomorrow brings. These sons o' bitches haven't managed to get me down in a long time.

Para, I do have to admit many times I've been down in the ditch regarding my attitude, and you have managed to encourage me along the way to not give up! Well done good sir...

While her ego will keep her on the case, her best move would be back away from the case and fire Wade. I'm sure there are other prosecutors better skilled than divorce attorney Wade.


She shouldn't come to the courtroom because in so many words, the judge found her to be dishonest and she needs to stay away if she doesn't want the the remaining counts to be a circus.

She was wounded in this, no doubt, but she's too dumb and ego driven to see it. She'll fire Wade and continue as though all is well.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
I still think this works in Trumps favor though. All of this, every last bit, makes the judicial system look like a paid shill for the Democratic machine that is lawfare.

I agree. Trump's people are moving the ball downfield, very much still in the game. Fani Willis will likely have to start from scratch, six counts dismissed. Her Special Prosecutor gone. She showed her ass to the world, and knows it. No question, Team Trump hurt her badly.

Lawfareland gets nervous

https://www.washingtonexaminer...reland-gets-nervous/

LAWFARELAND GETS NERVOUS. This newsletter has noted that the elected Democrats, Biden DOJ-appointed prosecutors, legal activists, and others who have filed criminal charges and lawsuits against former President Donald Trump have crafted a multiple-redundant line of attack. If one case fails, there is another to back it up, and if that case fails, there is another to back it up, and so on. There are four criminal cases against the former president, all charging him with felonies. At the beginning of this week, there were 91 felony counts against Trump, but a judge in the Georgia prosecution threw out some counts, so the total number of felony counts Trump faces now stands at 88.

That is a lot of redundancy. All it takes is for Trump to be convicted on a single count in a single case for Democrats and their allies to make a million campaign ads branding President Joe Biden’s challenger a “convicted felon.” Polls have shown that some voters who might otherwise support Trump will back away if he is convicted of a felony. That alone might be enough to swing the election. So of course the Democratic lawfare team, and its cheerleaders in the media, is desperate that at least one Trump trial start and reach a verdict before the Nov. 5 election.

But the anti-Trump team has been getting more and more nervous these days. It’s worried about Supreme Court review of a Trump defense motion claiming immunity to federal charges in the 2020 election/Jan. 6 case. It’s worried about the federal classified documents case bogging down in the minutiae of handling millions of documents. It’s worried the Georgia state case will sputter in the aftermath of misconduct between top prosecutors. The only case that gives it real hope is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case charging Trump did something illegal eight years ago in paying for a nondisclosure agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels.

When all the other cases were stumbling, Bragg’s case moved forward, scheduled to start trial 10 days from now, on March 25. On Bragg’s shoulders rested a lot of resistance hopes to prosecute Biden’s main opponent successfully before the election.

But now there’s a problem with Bragg’s case, too. On Thursday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said it would be open to a Trump request to delay the start of the trial for 30 days. (The Trump team wants 90 days, and a judge might pick another number.) The reason has to do with a third party — the Justice Department, in the form of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. You might recall that SDNY, as they call it, had previously investigated the whole Daniels case and decided against charging Trump with anything. It did not change that decision when control of the Justice Department shifted from Trump to Biden.

Trump has been trying to get SDNY to turn over documents from its investigation — the one that resulted in no charges against Trump. Now, it turns out SDNY waited a long time to hand them over. Not too long ago, it handed over 73,000 pages, and then, on Tuesday afternoon, just days before the trial was scheduled to begin, SDNY “produced approximately 31,000 pages of additional records,” according to Bragg’s office. Today, SDNY informed Bragg it’d be turning over 15,000 more records.

That has thrown a wrench into the works. Without full knowledge of what information the records contain, and what it means, it’s probably not possible to say how long the trial will eventually be delayed. Even in Bragg’s best-case scenario, the delay will be one month.

The anti-Trump legal talking head community is up in arms, angry at the Southern District of New York for the delay. “WTF, SDNY?” posted left-wing legal scholar Laurence Tribe. “What on god’s green earth were the Southern District federal prosecutors thinking in turning this over so late?” asked Andrew Weissmann, the former Mueller team prosecutor. “If I’m the Manhattan DA…I’m LIVID.” The anti-Trump group smells some sort of rat trying to delay the Trump trial, but it doesn’t know what it is.

In any event, the comforting certainty that at least one Trump trial would start soon has suddenly disappeared. Meanwhile, there are new worries about the Georgia case. Yes, the judge on Friday allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on the case, provided she gets rid of her ex-boyfriend Nathan Wade as the chief prosecutor. But some of the same voices expressing anger about the Manhattan case appear to be losing confidence in Willis.

“For the good of the case, given that ethics issues now abound as to Willis, she should voluntarily recuse herself from the case and allow another prosecutor to oversee the Georgia Trump case,” posted Weissmann. Another anti-Trump legal voice, Joyce Vance from MSNBC, agreed. “The better path forward would be to let another prosecutor in that office take over,” she posted.

So it’s fair to say Lawfareland is a little jumpy these days. With Biden trailing Trump in many polls, and the election getting closer every day, it’s frantic for a court, any court, to convict Trump of something in time to help Biden win. Some are pointing fingers at the Biden Justice Department for not indicting Trump earlier. Some are mad at the Supreme Court for not smoothing the way for a quick Trump trial. Some are mad at the media for not being even more anti-Trump. The nervousness will not ease unless a prosecutor can send Trump to jail before Election Day.

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Team Trump hurt her badly.

Dumb Beotch. Going after someone like Trump you had better make sure your shit doesn't stink.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...ltimatum/ar-BB1jYfXY

Judge McAfee said that Wade's "patently unpersuasive explanation" about inaccurate statements he submitted to the court about his divorce "indicates a willingness on his part to wrongly conceal his relationship with the District Attorney."

McAfee said he was "unable to place any stock" in the testimony of Terrance Bradley, the former law partner and Wade's divorce attorney who was considered a key witness of the defense team trying to prove Wade had been romantically involved with Willis prior to his hiring.

Bradley, when pressed under oath, said he could not recall several details and timelines about conversations he had with former client Wade about Wade's romantic relationship with Willis.

At one point, he was questioned about a text message exchange in which he said Willis’ relationship with Wade had "absolutely" started before he was hired in the DA’s office in 2021. But later in court he claimed he was "speculating" in those comments.

In his order on Friday, McAfee said Bradley’s "inconsistencies, demeanor, and generally non-responsive answers left far too brittle a foundation upon which to build any conclusions."

"While prior inconsistent statements can be considered as substantive evidence under Georgia law, Bradley’s impeachment by text message did not establish the basis for which he claimed such sweeping knowledge of Wade’s personal affairs," McAfee said.

Robin Yeartie, a former "good friend" of Willis and past employee at the DA's office, testified in court that she had "no doubt" Willis and Wade's relationship started in 2019, after the two met at a conference.

She testified to observing Willis and Wade "hugging" and "kissing" and showing "affection" prior to November 2021 and that she had no doubt that the two were in a "romantic" relationship starting in 2019 and lasting until she and Willis last spoke in 2022.

Judge McAfee in his order Friday said that "while the testimony of Robin Yearti raised doubts about the State’s assertions, it ultimately lacked context and detail."

"[N]either side was able to conclusively establish by a preponderance of the evidence when the relationship evolved into a romantic one," he added.

Still, the judge said that "an odor of mendacity remains," and added that "reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA [special assistant district attorney] testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it."

McAfee went all the way to concluding there was an "odor of mendacity"

chickenshit decision by the judge

he had a chance to do the right thing and he punted

didn't want to get his fingers dirty I guess

He's already withdrawn from the case, within hours of the decision, so that leaves Fani and her minons to move forward.

All Likely hood is she won't recuse herself, absolute narcissistic person, and she'll find another lacky to put in that place of Willis.

Heck she'll probably go on TV and claim that because she's still DA and the case goes on that it was all theater designed to hurt a woman DA or some crazy race based agenda.

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade steps down from Trump case after judge's ruling

https://justthenews.com/govern...-after-judges-ruling

Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor whom Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired to pursue her case against former President Donald Trump, officially resigned from the case on Friday after Judge Scott McAfee indicated that either he or Willis must do so.

"I am sure that the case, and the team, will be in good hands moving forward and justice will be served," Wade said, according to NBC News.

pence just said in a FOX interview he's not endorsing DT.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:
pence just said in a FOX interview he's not endorsing DT.

Wow, there's a surprise. How about Mitt Romney, where does he stand?

https://twitter.com/charliekir.../1768649137485123904

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade steps down from Trump case after judge's ruling

A severe blow to the legal profession

k brett baer is sorting all of this out right now on fox

Oh, we're saved, then

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:

he had a chance to do the right thing and he punted

I wonder what he will tell his kids?

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Originally posted by DrDan:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:

he had a chance to do the right thing and he punted

I wonder what he will tell his kids?

That BLM didn't burn his house down.