S10 E30: Fani Willis Takes the Stand

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

True Crime, Politics, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

With the future of Fulton County’s election interference case on the line, District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand to fight back against misconduct allegations. Defiant, emotional, angry and sometimes even funny, Willis’ testimony was both remarkable and surprising as she pushed back against accusations that could disqualify her and her office from prosecuting former President Donald Trump and his 14 remaining codefendants. The most recent episode, “Fani Willis Takes the Stand,” of Season 10 — “The Trump Indictment” — of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast analyzes Willis’ combative courtroom appearance. The episode also looks at the testimony of special prosecutor Nathan Wade and Robin Bryant Yeartie, a former friend of Willis and ex-employee of the DA’s office, who contradicted Wade and Willis’ account of when their relationship began. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favorite podcasting platform. You can also stream it above. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on breakdown.
0:02.0	How can Mr. Wade not have relevant information to this inquiry?
0:07.0	That is the real question here.
0:09.0	What remains to be proven is the existence and extent of any financial benefit again if
0:15.4	there is if there even was one.
0:18.8	We went into Thursday's hearing expecting fireworks, but we ended up getting magnitudes more than what we expected.
0:27.0	When my colleague David Wickard and I sat down in the public gallery in Judge Scott McAfee's courtroom,
0:32.0	we were expecting lots of
0:33.9	procedural stops and starts. And we definitely got that right off the bat. But
0:38.2	neither one of us were prepared for the twists and turns the day would bring.
0:42.0	No way. We were pretty twists and turns the day would bring.
0:43.0	No way.
0:44.4	We were pretty blown away when Robin Bryant Yurti, a former friend,
0:48.4	an employee of the Fulton DA's office,
0:50.5	took the stand and contradicted information in Nathan Wade's sworn affidavit.
0:55.6	We figured that would be the big headline of the day.
0:58.5	But then Judge McAfee called Wade to the stand. That in and of itself was pretty newsworthy too, but what
1:05.6	happened next unfolded like a movie scene. DA Fani Willis in a hot pink
1:10.6	dress walked into the courtroom unannounced
1:13.5	and leaned on the side of prosecutor's table.
1:16.5	Her deputy then asked to withdraw the DA's motion
1:19.2	to quash her subpoena.
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