CNN’s Elie Honig Rebukes Fani Willis for Playing ‘Victim’ in Scathing Op-Ed: ‘The Whole Case Might Run Aground’
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CNN legal analyst Elie Honig excoriated Fulton County District Attorney and Trump prosecutor Fani Willis in a scathing new op-ed for New York Magazine, speculating that her case against the former president “might run aground.”
“For over a year now, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of former president Donald Trump has been headed toward the shoals. In the past few weeks, the wind has picked up, and it looks like the whole case might run aground. The situation is already bad down in Georgia, but it’s about to get worse,” wrote Honig in his ominous lead.
After panning Willis’s prosecution of her RICO case against Trump, Honig acknowledged that said case has also been threatened by allegations that she is having an affair with one of the lawyers she’s appointed to work on the case, Nathan Wade.
Honig analyzed the situation with little sympathy, pointing out that Wade is “conspicuously underqualified” for his assignment.
“According to his [Wade’s] own website, he has primarily practiced personal-injury and family law. Well, his defenders note, the man was a judge and a prosecutor. With all due respect: not really, or not in any way that would prepare him for the task at hand. Wade held those titles only at the municipal level, handling petty misdemeanors or less. He has never — repeat, never — tried a single felony criminal case. Yet Willis selected him to lead the most complex and important racketeering case in Georgia history? Something’s up,” argued Honig, who went on to marvel at the fact that Wade has made over $650,000 working on the Trump case.
“How much of Wade’s income has been spent on Willis?” he wondered. “We don’t know the exact nature of their relationship; Trump and others allege it’s romantic, and neither Willis nor Wade has denied it. They allegedly traveled together, on Wade’s dime, to Napa Valley, Florida, and the Caribbean, and on both Norwegian and Royal cruise lines. Whatever the specifics of the relationship, the problem here is that Wade has used public funds paid to him by the DA’s office to pick up the tab for personal expenses for himself and Willis.”
The former federal prosecutor went on to criticize Willis for her public statements in recent days, and in particular her claim that the allegations against her and Wade are the result of racial animus.
“Despite her claim that she’s ‘being treated cruelly,’ the district attorney is no victim here,” concluded Honig. “Willis is not some civilian plucked out of obscurity and targeted for sport. She chose to run for office as Fulton County DA, and now she holds almost unimaginable clout; she controls tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and holds the awesome power to strip individuals of their personal liberty. If the district attorney wields the power of her office to do favors for her friends, to enrich herself, and to undermine the constitutional rights of her charged defendants, then she has earned the consequences.”
Read the full piece here.
