Not only did she play the race card, seeking to inflame Fulton County jurors against any defendant questioning her torrid sex affair with Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., but she specifically said she was playing "the race card."
Well, she says she's playing the race card in response to the defendants playing the race card first.
This isn't just prejudiced, it's prejudicial.
Like the motion from fellow Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, which similarly aimed at the relationship between Willis and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, Shafer says that the DA's "prejudicial" comments in January at Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta amount to an attempt to bias future jury members.
In remarks at the church, Willis said that she was "confused" as to why Wade, who was one of three special prosecutors her office hired, was the only one facing public scrutiny.
"I appointed three special counsel, as is my right to do," she said to parishioners. "Paid them all the same hourly rate. They only attack one. I hired one white woman, a good personal friend and great lawyer. A superstar, I tell you, I hired one white man, brilliant, my friend and a great lawyer. And I hired one Black man. Another superstar a great friend and a great lawyer. Oh, Lord, they're going to be mad when I call them out on this nonsense. First thing they say. Oh, she going to play the race card now? But no. God, isn't it them who's playing the race card when they only question one?"
This, Shafer says, was an obvious attempt to affect a potential jury.
"Rather than properly addressing the accuracy of Mr. Roman's allegations, the District Attorney chose a church setting to deflect the Roman allegations by making the most offensive and incendiary allegations against her accusers -- forcing the defendants onto the lethal third rail of American politics, and in her own words, 'playing the race card,'" the motion says. "The obvious intent of her remarks was to inject and infect the jury pool in Fulton County with unfounded allegations that anyone who dares question her or Mr. Wade's conduct must have done so for racist purposes. As an attorney and, most importantly, a public prosecutor, her comments which directly affected the pending litigation were indefensible and reprehensible."
I mean, this is a bang-on. This is no stretch. She went to a black church to smear the defendant who raised this issue as a racist Klansman.
CNN analyst Elie Honig raised the same issue last week at NY Magazine. He noted that other courts had slapped Trump with gag orders to keep him from influencing jurors, and pointed out that Willis' remarks at the church was at least as bad as anything Trump might have done.
Jack Straw posted this about Fani Willis' radical, murder-adjacent family:
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NEW: Father of Trump prosecutor Fani Willis dated & lived w terrorist Angela Davis who [bought] shotgun to kill judge. John Clifford Floyd, now advising Willis,arrested on weapons charges,found w docs calling for "destruction" of America (separate case).Comrades had bombmaking recipes
Meanwhile, witnesses say they can prove Fani Willis "cohabitated" with Darrius Honeycum at an "AirBnB" for a few days. That's a bent way to say "spent the weekend in a hotel with him."
But the more damaging allegation is that these two started a sexual fling the moment they first met at a conference in 2019, which, if true, would make Sweetdick and Fani liars, as they claim their fornication only began after he was hired to prosecute Trump.
Also from Paul Sperry:
Paul Sperry
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FYI: Only one federal judge in the D.C. District has sent EVERY SINGLE Jan 6 defendant to jail or prison: Judge Tanya Chutkan, who's overseeing the Biden DOJ-controlled prosecution of Trump. An Obama appointee, Chutkan has put ALL THIRTY-NINE (39) of her J6 defendants behind bars
Paul Sperry
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NEW: The year after Tanya Sue Chutkan gave Obama $4,300 and worked phones and organized fundraisers for his 2012 campaign, Obama appointed her US District judge, where she now presides over the Trump case. (Official images of her FEC records have been altered to remove addresses)