This Goose Is Not Laying Golden Eggs

'That's your argument?' Trump co-defendant's lawyer destroyed in Georgia Senate hearinghttps://t.co/ylWJwu7gKk

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And how much does Ms. Willis make?" Jones asked. 

 "Two hundred and something thousand a year," Merchant said.

 "So your argument is that a person who makes $200,000 a year is actually setting up prosecutions to go on a trip that costs $3,500," Jones observed. "That's your argument?"

 "No, no, not in isolation," Merchant insisted. 

 "I mean, you're talking about in isolation," the senator noted. "I'm talking about what's in [legal] briefs. I don't know what else you may be speculating about. I'm just talking about what's in briefs that says this is, this is the benefit that she got." 

 "And all I'm saying is that I got a person who's making $200,000 and the benefit that you're putting into the briefs, not what you may say that you may find elsewhere, but the benefit in the briefs is I go on a trip for $3,300, $4,400," he added. "And they have made up all these prosecutions to go on a three-day cruise for $3,300. I mean, that's your argument. If that's your argument, that's your argument." 

 For her part, Merchant insisted there was more to her complaints about Willis and Wade.

 "What else is in the brief?" Jones challenged her.

 "A lot of facts, a lot of law," Merchant remarked.

 "No, no, as far as actual financial benefit," Jones followed up.

 "I did not want to have any, as you call it, speculation," Merchant admitted. "I did not want to speculate about anything else."

So the case is no longer one of conflict of interest, but abuse of process and enrichment? And the office went through two grand juries just to get “free” trips out of it by getting Wade to pay for it from money earned under contract with the county? What did Wade get out of this, except lower pay and the chance to spend some of it on vacations? And the fact he took Willis is …what?

And where is the evidence that she even gained by this? Or this?

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris before she indicted Donald Trump in his election interference case, according to a lawyer who shared White House records during a Georgia Senate hearing. 

The meeting, according to Attorney Ashley Merchant's testimony, took place on February 28, 2023, just months before Willis indicted Trump in August of that year, Newsweek reported. 

Eighteen other people, including Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, were also indicted on charges of helping Trump in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 

During her testimony before the Georgia Senate, Merchant said that the mayor of Atlanta was also present for the meeting. 

"My understanding is that it's highly regulated who can access the White House ... so you have to apply ahead of time," Merchant said, adding the White House records showing the meeting are open to the public. 

When asked if there was any information available as to the reason the meeting took place, Merchant said no.

Again, no substantive evidence.

Where, exactly, is this supposed to be going?