'Could get very ugly': Legal experts focus on final day of Fani Willis hearing

The final day of hearings in the complaint against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a prosecutor on her team, Nathan Wade, began with legal analysts predicting that the arguments against her have failed to prove she should be disqualified.

The issue was whether Willis hired Wade because of their relationship and then benefited from his gifts to her. Law professor Joyce Vance said lawyers for Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Fulton County RICO case have failed to prove that.

"Legal proceedings often turn on the burden of proof," she wrote on social media. "Here, it’s the defendants who bear that burden. And as salacious as the proceedings have been, they seem to have fallen short. You can’t prove something through a witness who won’t testify to it, and Bradley wouldn’t," she said referring to Terrence Bradley, Wade's former divorce attorney and law partner who was called to give evidence.

Meanwhile, she explained, Bradley had a motive to lie about it and badmouth Wade: she said he left the law practice after an allegation of sexual assault was made against him.

"Texts show he lured the defense lawyer in, but abandoned his claims about the relationship when it came to his testimony on the stand," wrote Vance.

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Fellow law professor Anthony Michael Kreis outlined what he was looking for on the final day of the hearing.

"(1) Arguments over the conflict standard," he wrote on social media. "(2) Is the locus of the argument around when the relationship ended? (3) What does Judge McAfee do with the recent affidavits? (4) Does everyone agree that Terrance Bradley is a liar? And, if so, (it basically has to be) how does that factor into arguments?"

"Finally, is the defense going to lean into an argument Willis and Wade did not testify with candor to the court? That could get very ugly. I’ll be looking for any signal from Judge McAfee if that takes center stage."

You can watch the hearing in the video below or at the link here.

Fani Willis hearing live stream | Arguments on motions to disqualify www.youtube.com

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President Donald Trump's top health care chief revealed during a recent Fox News interview that he apparently doesn't know how health insurance works, according to one political analyst.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, discussed his efforts to combat alleged health care fraud during a recent Fox News appearance. During the interview, Oz claimed that "40%" of people who signed up for Obamacare "never used their health insurance" and insurance brokers are "making a ton of money off of the American people" by signing multiple people up for the same policy that isn't being used.

David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, reacted to Oz's interview during a new episode. He described Oz's comments as "ridiculous."

"What he's describing is not how insurance works," Pakman said. "It's sort of like if you didn't crash your car last year, your auto insurance was a fraud. If your house didn't burn down and you needed to make a homeowner's insurance claim, it must have been fake homeowner's insurance. If you didn't have a medical emergency, your health insurance somehow wasn't real. It's one of the strangest arguments I've heard."

"The whole point of insurance is I hope you don't need it," he added. "That's why it's called insurance."


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Hunter Biden stunned political analysts on Sunday with a scorched-earth rant about the Trump family corruption.

Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trumps had made more than $2.4 billion during their first year in office, a figure that shocked ethics experts. The Trump family is also positioned to reap financial windfalls from a lucrative mining deal in Kazakhstan and a gun deal that have benefited from government actions by President Donald Trump's administration.

Biden took the Trumps to task in a lengthy social media post that caught many political analysts off-guard.

"250 years ago, we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months, the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur," Biden wrote.

Biden listed off a slew of suspicious deals the Trump family is involved in, such as an Air Force drone company that Don Jr. and Eric Trump took public through a golf course company they own and the Saudi Arabian money that seeded Jared Kushner's hedge fund when he left the first administration.

"For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop? Wrong questions," Biden wrote. "The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family? They’ve given their answer. Long live the King."

Biden's rant left many onlookers taken aback.

"Scorch him, Hunter," Ameshia Cross, a Democratic strategist, posted on X.

"Hunter Biden complaining about high-dollar corruption from the consultant sons of prominent politicians wasn't on my expected check-list for today - or ever, tbh," Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University, posted on X.

"Rather good summary of Don Jr’s corruption from Hunter Biden, which is not a sentence I ever imagined typing out even two years ago," Mehdi Hasan, founder of Zeteo News, posted on X.

"Government of Trump for Trump. This is corruption, chaos and lawlessness," Dr. Mohammad Rahimi, a Democratic union organizer, posted on X.

At least one political analyst left President Donald Trump's July 4 celebration feeling a little let down.

Trump had spent months ginning up a story that his July 4 bash would be the biggest in American history. However, the event was marred by extreme heat, long lines, and a weather delay, which caused many people to leave the National Mall before Trump took the stage. Washington, D.C., was so hazy the morning after the fireworks that some people reported feeling a burning sensation in their lungs when they went outside.

Sam Stein, managing editor of The Bulwark, attended the festivities and shared his thoughts on a new episode of the "Bulwark Takes" podcast with guest Bill Kristol, the publication's editor-at-large.

"This whole thing was really sad, honestly," Stein said.

"Everything on the mall seemed cheap, honestly, except for the fireworks," he added. "But, just poorly done, cheap, slapped together, like in some cases literally falling apart."

Stein mentioned a video that surfaced last week of performers who were nearly struck by a falling piece of the stage during rehearsal.

"I'm sad because it could have been something genuinely heartfelt for the 250th, and it turned out to be anything but that," Stein said.

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