Trump case could go off rails as Fani Willis love triangle, corruption investigation heats up

*** Nobody on either side of the political aisle understands what Fulton County DA Fani Willis was thinking when she hired her reported boyfriend, a personal injury lawyer with zero high-profile felony trial experience, to be the lead special prosecutor in what is likely the biggest case of her career.

Nor do people understand why she’d blur her personal and professional life by jetting off for a $2,600 cruise and romantic trip to California’s Napa Valley with still legally married Wade while working on the sprawling and complex racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and his allies.

But Willis’ decision to hire Nathan Wade, 51, a sharp dresser who operates out of a basement office 20 miles north of Atlanta, and allegedly pay him thousands more than two much more qualified lawyers on her team, has backfired and threatens to derail her career — if not put the planned trial against Trump on state election interference charges in jeopardy.

*** Willis, 44, the daughter of Black Panther turned savvy criminal defense lawyer John C. Floyd III, has chosen to dig in her heels since a bombshell motion was filed Jan. 8 by one of the defendants in the Trump case, Michael Roman, alleging that she had an “improper” and “clandestine” affair with Wade and asking that the charges against him be dropped.

She also overpaid him to the tune of at least $675,000 since Jan. 2022 with taxpayer monies that the two then used for their lavish vacations, the motion alleges.

Willis gave an impassioned speech at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta last week calling the allegations against her and Wade a racially-motivated attack and is trying to avoid being deposed in court about it.

This is backwater Georgia.......the Trump case fell in her lap. She jumped on it, figuring
she’d parlay Trump into getting a better job and more visibility in the outside world.

Fani and Wade sucked up to the desperate Biden who was going down fast,
with a philandering cokehead son and those nasty tax and gun problems.

Biden would not let the duo’s bedroom act be a political liability......so they thought.

” I would call that prosecution for self enrichment.”

I agree. There is a doctrine in the legal world called “unclean hands”.

Unclean Hands Doctrine

An equitable defense that bars relief to a party who has engaged in inequitable behavior (including fraud, deceit, unconscionability, or bad faith) related to the subject matter of that party’s claim. The unclean hands doctrine is also known as the “clean hands doctrine” and the “dirty hands doctrine.” The unclean hands doctrine typically applies only to equitable claims such as requests for injunctive relief or specific performance, but some jurisdictions permit it as a defense to legal claims as well.

Although the unclean hands doctrine is typically an affirmative defense asserted by a defendant, it may also be asserted by a plaintiff in opposition to an equitable defense such as estoppel.

General immoral or corrupt conduct is not enough to warrant application of the unclean hands doctrine. To prevail, a party must demonstrate that its opponent engaged in inequitable behavior that is related to the subject matter of the litigation.

In layman’s terms:

The unclean hands doctrine applies to the parties in cases where the plaintiff has acted unethically in connection to the circumstances that have led to the suit. Its intent is to keep a person from abusing the justice system in order to benefit from a situation they created by acting in bad faith.

This usually applies in civil litigation but can be applied in some criminal prosecutions as well. As in a case in which the criminal prosecutor benefits financially or professionally by pursing a case against a defendant.

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