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https://nypost.com/2024/03/19/us-news/ashleigh-merchant-blasts-fani- willis-on-megyn-kellys-show/

The Georgia criminal defense attorney who alleged an “improper”
relationship between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade called out the Fulton
County District Attorney over a speech she made claiming “Jesus” told her
to prosecute Trump.

Ashleigh Merchant, who filed a bombshell motion alleging Willis’
relationship with Wade, whom she appointed special prosecutor on the case, appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show Tuesday where she told the host that she
“still [hasn’t] gotten over the church remarks.”

“When someone says that Jesus himself told them to prosecute this case,
how do you defend against that?… That’s insane. I’ve never dealt with
that… Nobody says this. This doesn’t happen. People don’t take to the
pulpit,” Merchant told Kelly.

Merchant filed the suit against Willis on behalf of her client, GOP
political operative Mike Roman.

Roman and others including former President Donald Trump have been charged
in a racketeering case for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020
presidential election. Merchant had demanded that the charges against
Roman be dropped.

Wade has since resigned from the case following Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling that demanded either he or Willis had to resign to proceed
with the case.

Willis made the speech in January at Atlanta’s Big Bethel AME Church,
claiming the backlash against her and Wade was racially motivated because
they are both black. McAfee slammed Willis’ speech in his latest ruling,
saying she had been “playing the race card.”

McAfee previously said Willis’ church comments were “legally improper” and threatened to gag her from speaking.

Merchant told Kelly that Willis’ use of race as “an issue in discussing
her detractors” is nothing surprising, saying “she has been like that most
of her career.”

“She’s known me for 20 years. She knows I’m not racist. She knows that I’m
not all of those things. So it did surprise me that she had those personal attacks… She’s known me for so long,” Merchant said.

Merchant also spoke of the witnesses Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner and one-time divorce attorney, and Robin Yeartie, former DA’s
office employee, who knew of Willis’ affair.

“I was surprised that he dismissed her because I thought she was by far
the most credible witness that took the stand,” Merchant said.

She also explained that Yeartie hired a lawyer who she said is a
“supporter” of Willis’ campaign and was “literally on” her campaign
flyers.

“With Robin she was very hesitant to come forward…She had a lawyer who
filed a motion to quash and re-litigated that right before she testified.
That lawyer who was a very pleasant and wonderful person is a Fani Willis supporter… All of the lawyers that did these motions to quash, you see
their names on her campaign flyers regularly,” Merchant said.

In Bradley’s testimony, he repeatedly denied knowing of the relationship,
which “shocked” Merchant, she said, adding it seemed he was trying to
protect his law license.

“I’m still shocked when I look back at it, looking at him. “But I can tell
from his testimony when he by his eyes and when he looked at me and said
I’m trying to save my law license that was one of the only times he
directly looked at me during his testimony,” Merchant said.

“And I think that was him telling me like, ‘I’m sorry, but I’m trying to
save my law license here’… But it was disappointing because he came to me
and he knew my role in the case. He knew that I represented one of the defendants in this case,” Merchant said.

“He knew I represented Mr. Roman and so he came to me and initiated this contact. But I know Terrence, and I knew Terrence, and I very much liked Terrence as a colleague, a professional colleague and a friend… It
disappoints me greatly… I think you could even see my demeanor switch at
that point from ‘Hey, Terrence is my friend’ to ‘Terrence is someone who
lied to me and is lying on the stand.'”

Trump’s defense team has filed a motion to dismiss the case and to have
Willis disqualified from the Georgia election fraud case.

George Parker
30 minutes ago

Willis is now under investigation for tax evasion and perjury.

Xiphiashunter
34 minutes ago

What a colossal joke Fani Willis is!
Jesus told her! Ha. What did big J tell her about having relations with a married man?
Huh?


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