Today is primary day in Georgia, and Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, who has made quite a name for herself, is on the ballot.

Of course, as our readers know, Fani Willis has made a name for herself by being the prosecutor who decided to indict Donald Trump with a grand jury whose forewoman loved the spotlight a little too much, then hired her secret lover Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the Trump RICO case, took vacations on HIS dime, played the race card and denied the whole thing until it became too obvious to deny, put herself on the stand in a crazy hearing, managed to keep her job because the judge said it was either her or Wade who had to go (Wade then promptly resigned), and now the entire case is before the Georgia Court of Appeals. In short, Fani Willis has spent a LOT of Fulton County’s money making this Trump case all about herself. And readers will remember, on this primary day in Georgia, what Fani Willis once promised the people of Fulton County.

NEW: Fani Willis, accused of sleeping with the married man she hired at an exorbitant rate to prosecute Trump, promised in 2020 she wouldn't sleep with her staffers.

She also said it would be "unfortunate" if taxpayers had to pay for an elected official's sexual misconduct. pic.twitter.com/sJs0g97yhP

— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) January 19, 2024

In addition to that promise – which Willis shattered into a million pieces quite publicly – she is also being investigated by the House Judiciary Committee, headed by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH). How did Jordan enter the picture? Well, when you take federal money for things, you invite federal oversight. Remember that Fani Willis fired an employee who pointed out her office’s misuse of federal grant money?

Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney’s office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders “alternatives to the juvenile court system.” During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide from misusing federal grant money meant for a youth gang prevention initiative.

According to Timpson, the aide, Michael Cuffee, planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant—earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention—to pay for “swag,” computers, and travel.

“He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,'” Timpson told Willis in a Nov. 19, 2021, meeting. “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.'”

“I respect that is your assessment,” Willis responded. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”

Later in the conversation, Willis apologized to Timpson, and said Cuffee had “failed” her administration.

Less than two months later, Willis abruptly terminated Timpson and had her escorted out of her office by seven armed investigators, according to Timpson. When Timpson filed a whistleblower complaint the following year that alleged wrongful termination, Willis’s office issued a statement describing Timpson as a “holdover from the prior administration” who was terminated because of her “failure to meet the standards of the new administration.”

Well, Jordan issued a subpoena to Fani Willis regarding that federal money. And while she bitched and moaned about it, Willis finally had to comply with the subpoena. Not that she stopped the bitching and moaning.

“Jim Jordan has, time after time after time, attacked my office with no legitimate purpose,” Willis said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “Anyone who knows Jim Jordan’s history knows that he only has the purpose of trying to interfere in a criminal investigation.”

Earlier this year, Jordan threatened to hold Willis in contempt of Congress if she did not cooperate with an investigation into her use of federal funds. She ultimately cooperated in the probe, which she labeled Monday as “illegitimate,” calling the Ohio Republican’s actions “disgusting.”

“He has now turned his tricks to, he’s going to look at grant programs, which I invite him to do. And we have complied with his subpoenas, but yet he continues his attacks to try to interfere in a criminal investigation,” she said. “All while his jurisdiction has one of the worst crime rates, has poverty issues.”

Willis — who stands for reelection Tuesday in the Georgia Democratic primary — also denounced a similar state-level investigation against her.

“I bring that up at the federal level because now at the state level, they’ve decided to follow this clown’s lead, and they want to now try to interfere in an investigation,” she said. “And it’s not legitimate either.”

“And so, it shall fail, and it’s not going to go anywhere. But they are trying to attack me at every level,” she added.

I hate to break it to Fani Willis, but she drew all this attention to herself. So when a whistleblower shows up and has a stack of allegations and evidence about the misuse of federal grant money, a receptive ear like Jim Jordan’s is going to listen. It’s not like your record of completely ethical and spotless behavior speaks for itself. *cough* I’m sure that Jim Jordan would LOVE to get his hands on the Trump RICO case documents, but he hasn’t. Your office took the federal money, so now you get the federal microscope because you placed a target on yourself. Calling Jordan a clown? Well, it takes one to know one. Since the race card has lost its credit with Fani Willis, she’s trying to play the “illegitimate” card. That card is going to be declined as well, because there’s quite a bit of evidence from the whistleblower that Willis will have to answer for.

The people of Fulton County have expressed before that they are fed up with the Fani Willis circus sideshow. But are they fed up enough to vote her out today?

Willis, a Democrat, is facing a primary challenger from attorney Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary DA race. The primary on Tuesday comes after she has faced scrutiny from some voters over her handling of the Trump election interference case in recent months.

Only one poll has been conducted on the primary, and it found Willis with a wide lead over her(sic) Wise Smith.

The survey, conducted by Georgia-based political consultant Fred Hicks from April 20 to 23 among 1,000 likely Democratic voters, found that 79 percent of respondents plan to back Willis in the primary, while 9 percent said they are voting for Wise Smith.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

But that is just the primary.

If Willis prevails Tuesday night, she will face Republican Courtney Kramer, who is running unopposed in the GOP primary, in the November general election. However, it remains to be seen if the general election will be competitive in Fulton County, a deeply Democratic area home to Atlanta.

In 2020, Fulton County gave Biden nearly 73 percent of its vote. Republicans did not run a candidate against Willis that same year.

Voting out Fani Willis in Fulton County is a steep hill to climb, even in a primary. Courtney Kramer, the Republican candidate that Willis will face in the fall, is a Trump supporter and worked in the White House during his administration.

The future of Fulton and safety in our community should not be controlled by self-interested politicians who use their office for political law fare. It’s time for a change. It’s time to #firefani and vote for @KramerForGA. https://t.co/vY9C52vUai #FoxNews

— Courtney Kramer (@KramerForGA) May 11, 2024

Kramer, an associate at the Katz Legal Group in Atanta, also worked in the Office of White House Counsel in the Trump administration in 2019. She said Willis “has made a mockery of the legal profession and the judiciary.”

“Using her position to pursue political prosecution is not part of the oath you take when you become DA,” Kramer said.

“The job of the district attorney is to ensure safety in the community, put criminals away and make sure victims are being advocated for. Here, Willis is not zealously advocating for the people of Fulton County, she’s zealously advocating for herself,” Kramer said.

Kramer said she would have to recuse herself from the Trump litigation due to her own conflict of interest, having worked with co-defendants in the case.

Before the general election this fall, Fani Willis could be standing before the Georgia Court of Appeals to plead her own case as to why she should not be disqualified from the case that made her famous. However, there is a chance that the Court of Appeals might not hear the case until next spring, though it might happen by this August. The appeal means that there is no way that the Trump RICO case is heard and adjudicated before the election in November. And if the Court of Appeals decides to remove Fani Willis from her biggest case before the general election??? All bets, even in deep blue Fulton County, might be off, if the public feels like Fani Willis wrecked her own case against Donald Trump because she literally hired the guy she was banging on the side. Courtney Kramer should just be playing that Fani Willis clip from 2020 on a loop in her ads, regardless.

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