Fani Willis vs. Trump: The Nazis Strike Back

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

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Mark your calendars! Tristan Snell, the prosecutor who led New York State's case against Trump and Trump University and the author of "Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully," will join Andrea for a live-taping of Gaslit Nation for our community of listeners on February 12 at noon ET. An event link will be sent to our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level or higher on the day of the event. To join us, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

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Republicans have once again refused to stop Trump: Nikki Haley lost the New Hampshire primary, and the Trump Klan is moving ahead towards the GOP nomination. Why might that be? According to Harvard psychologist Martha Stout, author of "The Sociopath Next Door," one in twenty-five people are sociopaths. Trump's cult has galvanized and emboldened them, unleashing a toxic sludge that threatens to drown our democracy.

In this week's episode, Andrea is joined by Olga Lautman, a Russian mafia expert and co-host of the Kremlin Files podcast, to discuss why Republicans are goose-stepping in line to support a shameless wannabe dictator, why the media continues to fail us and normalize this dangerous career criminal and Russian asset, and what can be done about it.

Andrea and Olga also debate over the growing attacks against Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Georgia DA who built a strong case against Trump and his goon squad for trying to overturn our election in 2020. Michael Roman, one of the 18 co-defendants in her case and a professional GOP opposition researcher, is trying to get Willis removed, which would put the entire case in jeopardy. Without any evidence, Roman claims that Willis is in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a lawyer she hired to her team of prosecutors. (Who cares!) This is a clear case of disinformation warfare to help Trump once again escape accountability. While there's nothing illegal done by Willis or Wade, this is the new "Hunter Biden's laptop" – red meat for the Fox News echo chamber. Check the show notes for trusted sources that cut through the gaslighting against Willis, who must remain in her post.

As for who will actually stop Trump, that's us and our Gaslit Nation phone banks this fall.

Show Notes:

OPENING CLIP: Natasha Alford, author of American Negra, and anchor of The Grio https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1747731236196614497?t=VhKn8V81n1j_qz6Hi-er6Q&s=19

NEW YORK TIMES: Trump Prosecutor in Georgia Seeks to Avoid Testifying in Colleague's Divorce Case. Fani T. Willis was subpoenaed in the divorce case of a colleague she hired to manage the Trump prosecution in Georgia, with whom she is accused of having a romantic relationship.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE: "The filing also stated that [Nathan Wade's soon to be ex wife] Ms. Wade had 'conspired' with 'interested parties' in the Trump case 'to annoy, embarrass and oppress' Ms. Willis. It noted that Ms. Willis had been subpoenaed around the same time that Mr. Roman's lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, filed motions seeking to unseal the divorce records and, in the Trump case, to remove the two prosecutors. The filing also said that Ms. Wade had acknowledged having an affair with a longtime friend of Mr. Wade's, and that the couple had agreed their marriage was 'irretrievably broken' as early as 2017, before Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis had met." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia-prosecutors.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20240118&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=48614702&segment_id=155695&user_id=097a378032011d6e8be1570cdce0a176

Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post: Fani Willis's Gift to Trump: "As a legal matter, the allegations about a romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and the chief prosecutor in the election interference case against former president Donald Trump are irrelevant. Even if all the claims are true, they wouldn't imperil the prosecution or justify dismissing the indictment, as one of Trump's co-defendants is seeking." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/22/fani-willis-gift-trump/

7 questions about the future of Fani Willis in the Georgia election interference case https://www.wabe.org/7-questions-about-the-future-of-fani-willis-in-the-georgia-election-interference-case/

Steve Bannon Thought Trump Had Early Dementia and Pushed to Remove Him, '60 Minutes' Producer Claims https://people.com/politics/steve-bannon-thought-donald-trump-had-early-stage-dementia-book-claims/

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dangerous-case-of-donald-trump-37-psychiatrists-and-mental-health-experts-assess-a-president-updated-and-expanded-with-new-essays-updated-expande-/20868798?ean=9781250212863

AI Reveals Dementia in Trump Speeches https://thedemlabs.org/2024/01/20/ai-reveals-dementia-in-trump-speeches/

Trump co-defendant alleges Georgia DA and prosecutor in relationship but offers no proof https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/09/georgia-trump-case-fani-willis-relationship-prosecutor

South Carolina natives Nikki Haley and Tim Scott's complicated history on display as they battle for GOP nomination https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/south-carolina-natives-nikki-haley-tim-scotts-complicated/story?id=104253045

The Sociopath Next Door by Harvard Psychologist Martha Stout https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sociopath-next-door-martha-stout/15279323?ean=9780767915823

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0:00.0	She never actually says, DeSantis says it, and I'm surprised at that because that's part of our proud history as Republicans, the fight against slavery.
0:08.0	Can I just say something though? I mean, we talk about this as if it is the past.
0:12.0	We are looking at, we've covered stories where people have died, have been killed because of racism.
0:18.0	Jacksonville, Florida, the Dollar Tree shooting. I mean, this is happening right now.
0:22.5	And this is not just the black community, right? The Japanese internment. I mean, those families
0:28.4	and descendants are still here. My last name is Alford, not because my family chose that last
0:33.3	name. That is the name of the slaveholding family that owned us. I know the plantation that we are from in South Carolina, and I am here.
0:41.3	My father desegregated a school.
0:43.3	He remembers those things.
0:45.3	So why do we have to talk about it as if it is past?
0:47.3	This is right now, the pain is real, the survivors of racism.
0:50.3	We are here, right?
0:52.3	And so if you don't have a message around that,
0:55.2	that talks about the future, that talks about the present, you cannot leave this country.
0:59.4	Well, Republicans do have a message around it. It's to ignore it. It's to say that we are
1:03.8	colorblind, which does not solve the problem. But it is to say that we are undoubtedly
1:08.9	a better and stronger nation on this front today than we
1:13.0	were 10, 20, 40, 50, 150, 180 years ago. We are undoubtedly better as an American people than we ever
1:21.8	have been. And that will be true again tomorrow. And that I think that was the point you was
1:25.9	make. But why is it? It's not because we ignored it.
1:28.3	It's because people called out what was uncomfortable and they challenged the status quo and they said,
1:31.3	we need to live up to what the American dream actually is.
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