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‘Not Credible’: CNN Legal Analyst Slams Fani Willis’ Testimony About Cash Payments Following ‘Train Wreck’ Hearing
Daily Caller ^ | February 16, 2024 10:06 AM ET | JASON COHEN

Posted on 02/16/2024 8:21:31 AM PST by Red Badger

CNN legal analyst Michael Moore on Friday cast doubt on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ Thursday testimony in which she claimed she always reimbursed her romantic partner with cash.

Willis testified during a hearing on whether she should be disqualified from her election interference case against former President Donald Trump for improperly benefiting financially from appointing special prosecutor Nathan Wade to the case. They both asserted Willis reimbursed Wade with cash for their vacations and outings, so there was no record of it, which Moore described as “convenient” on “CNN This Morning.”

Moore criticized both the defense lawyers and Willis for their performances during Thursday’s hearing.

“I think there were things they could have been pushed a lot harder on and maybe … delved into specifics a little bit more, especially when [we] start talking about things as nebulous as cash payments and there‘s no way to track it,” Moore said about the questioning. “And how much cash was paid? What, did you really just pay for the $150 to negotiate the taxi or … what did you do with the $4,000 you took? I think they could have pushed that.”

“I also thought that it just was not credible. It reminded me of watching a criminal defendant take the stand. They don‘t have to do that. You see it and you can tell that the defendant thinks that they‘re smarter than every lawyer in the room. And it just becomes a train wreck. And so that‘s sort of how I felt, this just went off the track,” he said about the testimony.

Wade testified he has only one receipt showing Willis reimbursed him for travel expenses because she always paid him in cash. Willis later asserted she “always” has cash at her residence, claiming it is a habit her father instilled in her.

“I have a hard time just thinking about a DA paying everything in cash, nothing wrong with cash, but it‘s convenient right now … Her indignation would have seemed a lot more sincere had she come out about two months ago. But remember, even as she is there saying she wants to get to the truth and she‘s shaking the documents and the court filings around in front of everybody, her office is fighting everything. They’re fighting every witness subpoena. They don‘t want the records to come in, she‘s refusing to let bank records and other things come in. They‘re hiding behind the privilege from [Wade’s] divorce lawyer who they‘re claiming was a friend, but maybe a divorce lawyer, so we really shouldn’t have to say anything.”

Willis erupted in rage during the hearing, prompting Judge Scott McAfee to call a five-minute break. She faced questions on whether Wade visited her residence and suddenly burst into anger, holding up documents as examples to prove that the allegations were false.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: atlanta; fulton; georgia
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To: eyeamok

Maybe someone will break in while she is in trial and search for it.


21 posted on 02/16/2024 8:49:30 AM PST by pas
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To: Red Badger

So CNN is stopping ‘justshort’ of accusing her of perjury.


22 posted on 02/16/2024 8:51:16 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: alancarp

It’s fairly obvious to all that she was lying her a$$ off....................


23 posted on 02/16/2024 8:57:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Ann Archy

Yeah, when she was televised walking to testify, that was weird.


24 posted on 02/16/2024 8:57:14 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: Red Badger

Is she simply trying to say she paid her own way on their vacations?

Not sure why that would even matter unless he was claiming them as business deductions or something.


25 posted on 02/16/2024 8:58:29 AM PST by Aria
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To: Aria

Yes, she is. and trying, unsuccessfully, to mitigate any criminal charges she and he may be facing................


26 posted on 02/16/2024 9:01:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: marktwain

And she’ll get away with it.


27 posted on 02/16/2024 9:13:48 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Ann Archy

That’s because the dress was on backward (the zipper was in the front).


28 posted on 02/16/2024 9:14:10 AM PST by Blogatron (I heard globalists taste like chicken.)
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To: Red Badger
Neither Fani or Wade have any receipts for withdrawal or deposits of cash over this period?

One or the other might be able to make this claim, but not both.

29 posted on 02/16/2024 9:14:47 AM PST by G Larry (It's RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing ILLEGAL Laborers)
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To: Red Badger

If liberal elites can start seeingd a little of what’s happening the world can change...


30 posted on 02/16/2024 9:24:27 AM PST by GOPJ (Mayorkas reeks of that 'CIA (Creepy Thug Assh*le') mentality. Ashli Babbit's killer was promoted..)
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To: GOPJ

They are blinded by their ideology. They can see the truth because it is viewed through thick lenses of ideological obfuscation................


31 posted on 02/16/2024 9:27:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Liz
"... But not a political life in backwater Georgia" ... As Maya Angelous said iirc, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
32 posted on 02/16/2024 9:49:27 AM PST by GAgal
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To: V_TWIN

I have a headline for the New York Post “Fani gets spanked!”


33 posted on 02/16/2024 9:51:34 AM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Aria
I don’t understand the expenses paid by Wade that were then supposedly reimbursed with cash. What would be the reason for this? Was Wade on a government expense account or something?

She hires lover boy as a special prosecutor. He gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to prosecute the case. She then gets illegal kickbacks from him in the form of paid vacations, etc. She knows this is improper so claims she reimbursed him for those expenses in the form of cash. Of course, she has no receipts showing those reimbursements were actually made because they weren't actually made.

34 posted on 02/16/2024 9:56:46 AM PST by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Aria

“And if she supposedly reimbursed him in cash then where did the cash go?”

The question should be, where did the cash come from? This is why she’s fighting to keep bank records out of the court’s reach. If the bank says she never cashed checks for cash or removed cash from her account, then where did all this money originate?


35 posted on 02/16/2024 10:02:57 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Liz

She also had a Flag Pin on UPSIDE DOWN!!!


36 posted on 02/16/2024 10:25:41 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: pas
Maybe someone will break in while she is in trial and search for it.

Look in the freezer, or under the bedroom mattress, or under the bed in a shoebox.

37 posted on 02/16/2024 10:57:05 AM PST by egfowler3 (Kung Flu, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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To: KevinB

That makes sense.

Thanks!


38 posted on 02/16/2024 11:03:44 AM PST by Aria
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To: Red Badger

From another thread

“She didn’t know she had to report these cash expenditures but she knew she had to hide it.”

That right there is a snake in the grass. A liar, a thief, a manipulator. That right there has no business holding an office of public trust. Fani ain’t the only one livin’ high on the hog, there are several in the sorority cabal that have taken.great liberties with public tax dollars and showered themselves with dubious trips, hotel accomodations, wardrobe etc... and who are highly offended that they are being called out on these illegal perks.


39 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:37 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Ann Archy

Wow———watta hag.


40 posted on 02/16/2024 1:01:18 PM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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