Georgia lawmakers are not impressed with Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s “wholly insufficient” approach to District Attorney Fani Willis’s “significant impropriety.”
As BizPac Review reported, McAfee decided on Friday that Willis can continue her rabid pursuit of former President Donald Trump as long as she shows her lover, lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, the door.
Wade spared Willis the trouble. Following the ruling, he resigned from his mistress’s team “in the interest of democracy.”
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But that doesn’t mean Willis is out of the woods.
Far from singing, the Georgia Senate is still clearing its throat, according to Georgia Republican Lt. Gov Burt Jones.
“Judge McAfee clearly found significant impropriety between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade,” Jones told Fox News Digital. “If Fani Willis acted in the best interest of her constituents, she would resign immediately, but we know her inflated sense of self won’t allow that to happen.”
“Regardless,” Jones added, “the Georgia Senate investigatory committee will continue its work on behalf of the Georgia taxpayer to hold her accountable.”
And he isn’t the only one weighing in on the explosive issue.
“The ruling by Judge McAfee seems to clearly identify impropriety between the DA and Mr. Wade,” Georgia Republican State Rep. Josh Bonner told the outlet. “Unfortunately, it does not address the purely partisan nature of the case brought by a rogue District Attorney more interested in scoring political points than prosecuting criminals in Fulton County.”
Georgia’s State Senator Jason Anavitarte, also a Republican, said it is “indisputable” that Willis “willfully concealed” her relationship with Wade.
“Rather than owning up to the relationship, admitting poor judgment and removing SADA Wade from this case as soon as it was revealed,” he told Fox News Digital, “DA Willis doubled down and spent the better part of 3 months continuing to obfuscate if not downright lie to the court.”
McAfee, the senator said, handed Willis an “escape hatch.”
“Judge McAfee openly acknowledged that there is an ‘odor of mendacity’ and ‘reasonable questions about whether the DA and…SADA testified untruthfully,’” he noted. “Despite all this, Judge McAfee chose to offer DA Willis an escape hatch that should have been voluntarily activated as soon as the relationship was uncovered, firing Nathan Wade.”
“To me, that is wholly insufficient,” Anavitarte said. “Prosecutors should be held to the highest ethical standard. Clearly, Judge McAfee failed in this account. Now it is incumbent on the nearly created Prosecuting Attorney Qualification Commission to determine whether DA Willis committed perjury. I suspect complaints to that end are forthcoming.”
Georgia Republican State Sen. Bill Cowsert is heading up a special Georgia Senate committee probe on Willis. He, unlike his colleagues, is “confident” that Willis will ultimately do the right thing and recuse herself from the Trump case.
“I feel confident that’s what she’ll do,” Cowsert told Fox News Anchor Martha MacCallum on Friday.
“There’s just no way a jury will give any credibility to her further involvement, it will undermine her own mission of prosecuting these individuals if she stays personally involved,” he reasoned. “It’s just been a series of really poor choices.”
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