Fani’s Fabulous Fundraising Adventure: Who Needs to Testify When You Can Party in D.C.?

by Jeff Childers

This week, the District Attorney in Trump’s RICO prosecution in Atlanta encountered a mechanical spanking machine. First, on Thursday, Newsweek ran a hopeful story headlined, “Fani Willis handed loss in Donald Trump’s Georgia election case.” Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee dismissed two of the ten pending charges against President Trump, ruling that District Attorney Fani “Gimme a G” Willis lacks authority to bring federal charges.

That was only Fani’s first setback.

Yesterday, the AP ran another curious story headlined, “Fani Willis skips a Georgia state Senate hearing while challenging subpoena.”  The Georgia State Commission investigating Fani Willis for misconduct and for conflicts of interest had subpoenaed her to testify and produce documents. She was required to appear before the commission yesterday afternoon but didn’t show.

Earlier this week, Willis filed an objection to the subpoena. Fox5-Atlanta ran a followup story Wednesday headlined, “Fulton DA Willis seeks to block Georgia Senate subpoenas; three judges recuse from ruling.” Nobody wants to touch it! So far, three Fulton County judges (including Judge McAfee) have recused themselves from hearing Fani’s objection to the subpoena.

Who can blame them? On one side squats an amorous District Attorney adored by the left, even if she can’t speak proper American English. On the other side looms Georgia’s furious conservative state government. It’s a political hot potato for any judge.

Thanks to the carousel of recusing judges who want nothing to do with ruling on Fani’s subpoena objection, it wasn’t heard before yesterday’s appointed time for her testimony. Instead, with her still-pending objection not yet ruled on, Fani attended a swanky fund-raising event in Washington, D.C.

Fani, a local state prosecutor, is fundraising far from her Georgia district — because D.C. is who she’s really working for.

Online commenters waxed euphoric at the notion Fani could be found in contempt for defying the Committee’s subpoena. It’s possible, but unlikely. Since she timely filed an objection to the subpoena, and since it was not her fault that it could not be ruled on before her scheduled testimony, I doubt any reasonable judge would sanction her.

Still, it’s a bad look for the DA’s office to defy subpoenas without valid orders upholding her objections. If one of her criminal defendants did the exact same thing, Fani’s office would almost certainly seek jail time. That doesn’t mean the judge would agree, but it’s what they would request.

Fani’s going to lose, which is why all the judges have recused. She’ll have to testify, sooner or later. And the effort she’s making to avoid testifying should tell you everything you need to know about how badly that unpleasant interview is likely to go.

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