Questionable tangents about vacations and alcohol did not help her cause.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is sworn in to testify during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia.Thursday was an enormously consequential day for the criminal cases against Donald Trump.
Some 750 miles south of New York City, in Fulton County, a dramatic hearing in his Georgia election interference case was videocast to journalists all over the country. The hearing, overseen by Judge Scott McAfee, was meant to determine whether District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of her romantic relationship with a prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade.
Willis managed to put forth a set of fairly plausible rebuttals to claims that she violated any formal rules or misrepresented herself to the court. And yet none of her protestations could possibly inspire confidence in a skeptic that she should continue to lead this prosecution. Anyone bringing criminal charges against Trump is bound to face withering scrutiny of their professional and private lives; they must conduct themselves unimpeachably to avoid even a hint of bias or corruption.
Willis’ combustive testimony went a lot less smoothly than Wade’s, with Judge McAfee cautioning the witness multiple times for using her time to go on lengthy filibusters criticizing the defense attorneys for their conflict-of-interest accusations and over-explaining her side of the story. It seemed that Willis was incapable of treating herself as a witness subject to direct examination—a problem Wade did not have—acting as though she belonged not behind the witness stand, but in front of it.
If Willis is removed from the case, things get infinitely easier for Trump. Should McAfee disqualify her, it will be up to Republican Pete Skandalakis—the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia—toa new prosecutor in previous election interference case, that of Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones. This delay has given rise to fears that rather than swiftly reassigning Trump’s case to another prosecutor, he could sit on it until it effectively dies.
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