You want to prosecute the former President of the United States. There are credit card statements showing you financially benefitted from your romantic relationship. Your only defense is completely untraceable cash reimbursements.
You swear under oath that your relationship started in 2022. Two witnesses, including Nathan Wade's former attorney, provided evidence that this was not true.
You began the hearing by demanding SANCTIONS for Ashleigh Merchant, falsely telling the court that she has no good faith basis for her claims despite knowing, as an officer of the court, that Nathan Wade's own attorney confirmed the claims in her motion.
When Nathan Wade's attorney finally, over his STRENOUS EFFORTS not to tell the defense what he said, admits that he confirmed the filing was accurate, you immediately go Defcon one and accuse him of sexual assault.
The other witness who confirms the earlier relationship ALSO DID HER VERY BEST not to have to testify and now you want to claim that she was so mad at her firing she perjured herself despite that very obvious reluctance.
And then there is the extremely evasive and unprofessional conduct from both Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, who tried to explain away an apparent lie in his filings by claiming that his marriage was "over" while he was still legally married.
How could any judge look at this pattern of facts and find that there is not the appearance of something improper?
There is no case in the history of Georgia that comes anywhere close to these facts. I do not think there is any binding authority on this judge's decision.
But I do came away from this hearing frustrated and appalled by the conduct of the Fulton County DA's Office.
Finally, a word about Bradley.
The State has argued, for days, that the communications to him about dating Fani Willis were privileged.
Which is to say, Nathan Wade told him.
Even if the judge can't infer that Fani Willis lied under oath, the rest of us can.
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315,000 people voted early in Fulton County. Someone should have signed the machine count tallies, to show they were verified.
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If a Fulton County employee had done this, I am skeptical that the people claiming fraud would have said "oh damn, they signed off on the counts? I guess that means everything was above board."
Chances are, the fraud theorists would say Fulton just lied when they signed. /2
However, because those signatures are absent, a lof of fraud folks are saying this proves the election was stolen.
Most of them seem to misunderstand the issue. They think there's a problem with like, signature matching or proving the ballots were real.
It was 2011, and 200 people were gathering in South Atlanta for a repast, (a big post-funeral meal) setting up tablecloths and getting coolers.
The neighborhood was just saying a prayer when Javenski Hilton learned that a drug dealer had broken into his car. /1
Hilton knew the drug dealer. It was his girlfriend, Tomika Webb. She had loaned him some money so he could buy crack and share the profits with her, but he hadn't paid him back. /2
Hilton got to his car and Webb was there, rummaging through it for drugs or money. When she saw Hilton, she started screaming and threatening him.
A neighbor, Patrick Walker, could tell this was going to end badly, and so he immediately called police. /3
If you chase someone with your car, that is aggravated assault. And you cannot be justified doing something once you commit a felony. You can't shoot an armed homeowner, for instance, if he tries to stop you from burglarizing his house.
Now let's say it turns out that the armed homeowner is a murderer.
That shit isn't relevant, because no set of facts about his past make it ok to break into his house and shoot him.
The first thing to note about Trump's WSJ lawsuit is that he filed it federally in Florida.
In almost every jurisdiction, filing a lawsuit federally helps you avoid the anti-SLAPP statute.
But not in Florida.
So, for instance, when Dan Bongino filed a lawsuit against the Daily Beast for saying he was fired, the Daily Beast filed an anti-SLAPP motion, even though it was in federal court.
And prevailed, because the suit was without merit.