Posted on 02/29/2024 2:30:16 PM PST by CFW
On Wednesday’s edition of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn and attorney Phil Holloway exclusively revealed 31 pages of text messages between Ashleigh Merchant and Terrence Bradley related to the affair between Fulton County DA Willis and special prosecutor Wade.
The texts shed light on details Bradley repeatedly said he could not recall when he was on the stand on Tuesday in a hearing on the motion to disqualify Willis and Wade from the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants. Merchant is representing defendant Michael Roman and was responsible for filing the motion in January. Bradley, meanwhile, is Wade’s one-time friend, law partner, and divorce attorney.
Given that the texts showed Bradley was very forthcoming with an array of information ranging from when the affair began (he said it was earlier than Willis and Wade testified) to who else might be privy those details (he helped Merchant track down Robin Yeartie), their release undermined the media narrative that Bradley was not the star witness he had been billed as. Perhaps that is also why several outlets were not quick to acknowledge the source of the information.
When a news organization or reporter is the first to obtain or source information, it is journalism 101 to credit whoever broke the news. That custom was apparently lost on CNN and Atlantic Journal-Constitution when it came to covering these text messages.
Late Tuesday, CNN published an article with the headline “Exclusive: Texts reveal shadowy role witness played in defense attorney’s push to disqualify Willis from Trump case.” The only problem? It wasn’t exclusive.
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By Thursday morning, CNN had taken down the original story that was billed as “exclusive” and replaced it with an error message.
(Excerpt) Read more at megynkelly.com ...
Megyn Kelly is joined by lawyers Dave Aronberg, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway to talk about the major decision ahead for Judge Scott McAfee, the judge talking about what the Terrance Bradley text messages really show, the judge’s comments about Fani Willis credibility, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK7wKOQgyck
Oh please….she asks Trump a fair question and gets called a Never Trrumper whore. Brilliant!
Harry MacDougald, the attorney for Clark, who had such a great closing argument yesterday is FR’s “Buckhead” who posted here years ago. Buckhead was the one that uncovered the fake George Bush document in “Rathergate”.
Buckhead is still doing the heavy lifting for justice after all these years.
Thx
CNN still sucks.
One take-away from me is that the Terrance Bradley of the texts does not sound like a stupid man. I know that people were calling him names during his testimony on Wednesday. He did sound ignorant on the stand, leaving people to wonder how he passed the Georgia Bar. But the Bradley on the texts seemed literate and knowledgeable about the law.
-PJ
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