Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling into whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the case into former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference sparked outrage from MAGA members on Friday.

McAfee ruled that Willis could choose between staying on the case herself or keeping attorney Nathan Wade as a prosecutor. Attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendants argued the relationship between Willis and Wade should lead to her disqualification, alleging the pair benefited from taxpayer dollars. Willis, however, maintained that she engaged in no wrongdoing and that their relationship began only after he was hired.

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson said during a livestream discussing the ruling that it was “not the result we were looking for.”

“We were looking for total and complete disqualification,” he said.

Conservative pundit Tim Pool wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter, “This judge is a coward.”

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        Or that a trump backed company paid Smirnov, the lying FBI informant and central to the entire impeachment effort to smear the Bidens, $600,000 right before he started lying about what he knew.

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      They have to act outraged or the legitimate outrage of democrats and progressives will make them look even worse. It’s vital they maintain every aspect of their alternate reality or it all crumbles.

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    Fani Willis allowed this to become an issue.

    This was an unforced error on her part and never had to come into question in the first place.

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    I wish I could afford to hire a lawyer to question the morals of any cop who ever writes me a traffic ticket. Take it to the Supreme Court!

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    When you are guilty AF and can’t defend against a mountain of solid evidence, all you got is trying to get the case crushed on some technicality.

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      It would be some proper justice for the Justice Dept to step in and say “We agree, Willis has shown a conflict of interest, and as a result, Jack Smith will now be the prosecutor.”

      Try to get it thrown on a technicality, get an even harsher prosecutor

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    Dim Tool followed his tweet up with another which read “…civil war?” /s

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    Well usually that’s a good thing…when fascist morons are upset then democracy is working.

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    Article title tells low intelligence maga folk what to think and feel. Stay tuned for more outrage

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling into whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the case into former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference sparked outrage from MAGA members on Friday.

    Attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendants argued the relationship between Willis and Wade should lead to her disqualification, alleging the pair benefited from taxpayer dollars.

    Willis charged Trump and 18 others for efforts to allegedly overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, which the former president has claimed was stolen despite a lack of evidence.

    “This finding is by no means an indication that the Court condones this tremendous lapse in judgement or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorney’s testimony during the evidentiary hearing,” Judge McAfee wrote.

    Fani Willis overpaid her lover Nathan Wade as he had zero experience with RICO cases, abuse of taxpayer funds!"

    Willis has not yet responded to McAfee’s ruling, but legal experts have said the judge gave her an “easy choice,” as she can simply remove Wade from the case and continue toward the trial, which has already been delayed due to the disqualification question.


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