Where Does Fani Willis Go From Here?

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pushed back hard after having her personal life dragged into the spotlight. Lawyers for Donald Trump are trying to dismiss her from the Georgia election subversion case she brought against the former president. They argued that she and Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to lead the case, engaged in an improper romantic relationship which financially benefitted her. Audie chats with journalist George Chidi about the hearing and what’s next for Willis. Chidi is a politics and democracy reporter for The Guardian, based in Atlanta. Chidi himself was subpoenaed in this case after exposing the Republican fake electors plot. Chidi was in the courtroom for Willis’s testimony, and he paints an audio courtroom sketch of this jaw-dropping moment. George Chidi is co-host of the podcast King Slime: The Prosecution of Young Thug and YSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you aware if Miss Willis was dating someone? Yeah, she had a boyfriend when I first got there.
0:07.9	Did you know him by any specific nickname? Yeah, Deuce. Was it a disc jockey or something?
0:14.9	I heard it this morning and I started Googling around for all of the guys who are DJs in Atlanta.
0:20.3	Name Deuce. And unfortunately, there's more than one. Am I going to have to Googling around for all of the guys who are DJs in Atlanta. Name you.
0:20.8	And unfortunately, there's more than one.
0:23.8	Am I going to have to go to some dude's house and not, are you the deuce that was dating
0:29.6	angles?
0:30.8	Like, am I this guy now?
0:32.9	Is this what my life has been reduced to?
0:35.5	I know they're paying me a lot of money at the Guardian,
0:38.7	but there's a reason why I've quit journalism before,
0:42.2	and it's crap like this.
0:43.9	I'm glad you're back, though.
0:47.4	I don't need anything from a man.
0:49.1	A man is not a plan.
0:50.6	A man is a companion.
0:52.9	This is the kind of quote from Fulton County DA Fannie Willis that will live on in memes, jokes, and ironic needlepoint kits.
1:00.0	It's also the kind of thing that is a massive distraction from the case against Donald Trump in Georgia,
1:05.0	the one that accuses the former president and Rudy Giuliani and others of abusing state and local laws and trying to defraud voters in their attempt to overturn the vote.
1:14.9	So a couple of questions.
1:16.4	Will Willis be disqualified from the case or just discredited?
1:20.4	What do the answers mean for Donald Trump or for you, the voter, in the next election?
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