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An attempt to disqualify a Georgia D.A. trying Trump's election subversion case lost its way quickly and became a furious inquisition impugning her personal life.
"We didn't hear anything about who approved of the vouchers that Wade submitted and his time sheets and all of the things that you would ask if you're really trying to discuss the financial relationship," former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo said while appearing on CNN's "Out Front" with Erin Burnett. "And this just devolved into a salacious, private, deeply personal attacks on Fani Willis that just really seemed irrelevant to such an extent it was I thought that was a real sideshow and not a lot came out that would actually disqualify where they could have asked a lot of those questions to establish that relationship."
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was on the other side of questioning on Thursday and attempted to fend off aspersions cast against her character and possibly remove her from trying the RICO case against 19 defendants that include former President Donald Trump.
Willis and the private attorney she hired as a special prosecutor Nathan Wade both testified about their clandestine romantic relationship and specifics of how money was spent for a variety of trips they took together from Napa Valley to Belize.
She later turned tables on the attorneys: “Do you think I’m on trial? These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I’m not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial."
When asked if her anger was warranted, Agnifilo said it was.
"I think what was lost today was the legal standard that the defendants have to meet in order to get the case just get her disqualified from the case, which is: Is there an actual or perceived conflict of interest? And one that would have to do with money and a relationship."
"But we didn't hear any of that. For example, we didn't hear anything about who approved of the vouchers that wade submitted and his time sheets and all of the things that you would ask if you're really trying to discuss the financial relationship."
