Posted on 01/25/2024 5:17:09 PM PST by Red Badger
Donald Trump on Thursday joined a push to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Fulton County’s election interference case, saying her defiant remarks at a historic Black church showed “racial animus” toward the former president and his co-defendants.
In a court filing, Trump’s two top Atlanta attorneys accused Willis, who is Black, of a “glaring, flagrant, and calculated effort to foment racial bias into this case.” That could unfairly prejudice a jury, they said, and violated Georgia’s rules of professional conduct.
Trump’s lawyers Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little weighed in a little more than two weeks after explosive allegations emerged that Willis was in a secret relationship with one of the case’s special prosecutors and benefitting financially from it.
Willis’ only public comments about the claims so far came in a recent Martin Luther King Jr. Day service at downtown’s Big Bethel AME Church. During her 35-minute speech, Willis didn’t address the relationship accusations head-on but defended the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, who is also Black, and accused her critics of playing the “race card.”
Sadow and Little argued the DA’s “provocative and inflammatory extrajudicial racial comments, made in a widely publicized speech at a historical Black church in Atlanta, and cloaked in repeated references to God, reinforce and amplify the ‘appearance of impropriety’ in her judgment and prosecutorial conduct.”
A Willis spokesman declined to comment.
Trump’s team officially signed on to a motion from case codefendant Michael Roman that asks Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the Trump case, to dismiss the charges against him and for Willis and her entire office to be removed from the probe.
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In a court filing, Trump’s two top Atlanta attorneys accused Willis, who is Black, of a “glaring, flagrant, and calculated effort to foment racial bias into this case.” That could unfairly prejudice a jury, they said, and violated Georgia’s rules of professional conduct.
BeeeeAuuuuutifull....long past time white people start playing the race card!!!
Wait she tried to play an uno reverse card by saying they are playing the race card, when that is in fact what she is doing.
Should stick to the unjust enrichment line.
Bad headline. I was wondering which black historic church invited Trump to speak.
How soon till we see Fani on national TV with streaming mascara, crying to the cameras about how she has “sinned against God”? I bet that she goes to bed punching her pillow cussing like the street rat thug/ho that she is. But...I suppose that in Atlanta...thats just normal.
AND THIS——Fani Willis not answering emails due to Racism
Willis: “some people will never be able to respect African Americans”
Says racism was behind criticism of her improper relationship with Wade
Except she was not sleeping with their two white colleagues
BY MARY LOU MASTERS, January 18, 2024, Daily Caller News
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ team accused former President Donald Trump’s lawyer of racism after he called them out for not responding to his emails during a fiery exchange last week, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
The tense email chain, composed of the prosecution and defense lawyers, began when Trump attorney Steven Sadow grew frustrated with Willis’ team for not answering a previous request, to which Willis said that “some people will never be able to respect African Americans,” according to the emails obtained by the NYT. Sadow had asked whether the letter Willis wrote to the Jan. 6 Committee in December 2021 was responded to by committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“For the life of me, I cannot understand why you refuse to respond to the series of emails below,” Sadow wrote on Jan. 5, according to the NYT. (RELATED: Fani Willis Suggests Racism Fueled Bombshell Allegations About Improper Relationship With Special Attorney)
Daysha Young, the executive district attorney on Willis’ team, replied five days later that they “are both aware, especially as an African American woman some find it difficult to treat us respectfully,” according to the outlet.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk launched an investigation into Willis, who indicted Trump over alleged interference in the state’s 2020 election, in early December 2023 for allegedly “colluding” with the Jan. 6 Committee.
The Republicans’ investigation stems from the letter Sadow inquired about in the email exchange. Willis requested records including “recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel” from the Jan. 6 Committee in the letter.
“Over the last month the emails of some of you have been disrespectful and condescending lacking both professionalism and decorum,” Young added.
Young also said she didn’t respond to certain emails that she viewed as disrespectful, the NYT reported.
Sadow replied that it was “offensive, uncalled for and untrue” for Young to allege racism in the email exchange, adding that her decision not to respond to emails “suggests a degree of haughtiness,” according to the outlet.
Willis jumped in, stating that “in the legal community (and the world at large) some people will never be able to respect African Americans and/or women as their equal and counterpart,” per the NYT.
“That is a burden you do not experience. Further, some are so used to doing it they are not even aware they are doing it while others are intentional in their continued disrespect,” said Willis.
“Now you know, I cannot be bullied,” Willis added. “So I do not even think anyone on this team thought someone was silly enough to try that as a tactic. As you are aware, I have now experienced some of the most powerful people in the country call me everything, but a child of God. But, yet here I and my team stand still pursuing justice.”
Willis also suggested on Sunday that racism was behind the recent allegations that she had an improper relationship with Nathan Wade, a special attorney involved with Trump’s prosecution that her office had paid. The judge overseeing Trump’s case will consider the allegations made about Willis’ relationship during a Feb. 15 hearing.
Sadow declined to comment, and Willis’ office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment
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That “church” should lose its tax exempt status.
Has a black church ever lost its tax exempt status for political speeches?..............
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