‘Take some deep breaths and calm down’: Fani Willis’ lawyer jabs ‘skunk’ GOP lawmaker

The attorney representing Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is telling Jim Jordan to “calm down,” while reminding the Republican House Judiciary Chairman he ignored a lawfully issued subpoena from the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, and likening him to “a skunk telling a possum his breath stinks.”

Roy E. Barnes, the former and most recent Democratic governor of Georgia, is representing Willis. He is a recipient of The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, and his no-holds-barred response to a letter Chairman Jordan sent led MSNBC/NBC News legal contributor Katie Phang to call him her “new hero.”

Barnes wastes no time going after Jordan, who went to law school but never took the bar exam, by chastising him for not following proper procedures: “Though my client and I were discussed in the letter, I was not sent a copy. I thus obtained the same through public sources.”

“I find the tone of your letter to be filled with vitriol and anger,” Barnes declares. “I would suggest you take some deep breaths and calm down so this matter may be discussed without emotion. An anger management course might also help.”

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Barnes goes on to call himself “just a country lawyer, unaware of the ways of Washington, D.C.,” before noting he “must comment on your statements regarding obedience to subpoenas lawfully issued by committees of Congress.”

“I notice you were served with a duly issued subpoena of the committee of Congress which investigated the January 6 insurrection against the government of the United States of America,” the Georgia Democrat continues. “You failed to appear before that committee. I therefore find your protestations regarding a normal citizen obeying subpoenas to be somewhat hollow. It reminds me of what Jesus said in Matthew 7:3: ‘Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?’ In the South we have a similar saying: ‘That is like a skunk telling a possum his breath stinks.'”

“When you have calmed down and attended the anger management class, I will be glad to discuss this matter with you in a logical, dispassionate manner. I wish you and the other Members of Congress the very best in undertaking the work of the people.”

Barnes doesn’t end his missive there.

“By the way, since we in Georgia just experienced a great tragedy – a school shooting by a young man with a machine gun – do you think you could take a short break and solve that problem?”

CNN contributor John Dean, the former Nixon White House Counsel, called it “a wonderful ‘f**k you’ letter to Gym Jordan regarding his abuse of power in trying to influence the prosecution by GA DA Fani Willis.”

Phang’s post with Barnes’ letter went viral, with nearly a half-million views in just 18 hours.

See it below or at this link.