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March 7, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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Ashley Merchant Absolutely Buried Fani Willis in Today's Georgia Senate Hearing

Ashley Merchant Absolutely Buried Fani Willis in Today's Georgia Senate Hearing

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Today, my friends, was something that I hope you saw or you heard the best of.
This was a Senate committee, a Senate subcommittee or committee hearing in Georgia regarding this debacle, this horror show, this clusterfark that is the Fannie Willis Whatever this thing is.
Ashley Merchant was beyond incredible.
One of the most perfect testimony machines she had.
How do I say this?
Let me see if I can say this in a way that makes the most sense.
By virtue of her age, by virtue of her I don't want to say gender.
I don't think it matters.
But she delivered this.
And I'm saying this in a way that's with utmost respect.
Not like a lawyer.
Not like, you know, some staid stuffy proceeding.
But it almost was like entertainment tonight or something that was gossipy.
And again, I'm telling you, it was one of the best presentations because it was captivating.
She gave the information in a way that was completely and totally commensurate with how people take and deal with information today.
Now, as a comparative note, State Senator Harold Jones was horrible.
I don't know why they even threw him into it.
He was completely...
Out of his league, he was arguing arcane notions.
He doesn't know how to get to the heart of this.
The funny part about this, the funny part, they were saying that Frau Fanny might have been tainting the jury pool.
If anybody tainted anything, it was this.
You can't believe.
You can't believe what happened.
You can't believe what these corrupt folks do until you heard it her way.
Now, this is the most important thing.
First of all, there was a very good portion which was very interesting.
She was talking about this notion of the special counsel and the special grand jury.
And she, who I believe as president, of either the Georgia or the Fulton County or Cobb County or state criminal defense lawyers.
I think it was the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
She basically was saying that nobody really knew what the hell this special grand jury was.
And what it was was, if you recall correctly, it's not able to indict, but it's able to make...
Recommendations.
And what it does is it really provides a level of protection so that when the prosecutor is alleged to be doing this for reasons that are nothing more than A political reason.
She could say, oh, no, no, don't blame me.
No, no, this was the special grand jury.
I didn't do anything.
It's not me.
It's not like I wanted to do anything.
Remember that lunatic?
What was her name?
Emily Kors.
Do you remember her?
Do you remember this woman?
She was like the foreperson of the...
I always check my research.
Yes, Emily Kors.
Yes, do you remember her?
She was this 30-year-old woman who was the random people.
She was in, I believe, the special jury.
She would say, I don't know.
Remember that?
They said, what are you going to indict?
I don't know.
It could be.
She was just loving this.
She was absolutely...
I mean, it was one of the strangest things ever.
And this was a part of the...
Random people that went forward.
Remember that she was the foreperson of the special grand jury.
Creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life.
This set the tone, but we didn't think it would ever get this bad.
We thought, okay, maybe this was it.
What Ashley said, which was repeated, Ashley Merchant said, repeated, was she's not really sure what the hell a special grand jury is, and they're not even sure what the hell a special...
Special District Attorney, Special Assistant.
Who is Nathan Wade?
Who is he?
Where does he come from?
It's some of the most unbelievable testimony you can imagine.
She had, they said, incredible access to Fannie.
Here's something which was interesting.
Do you remember?
There was a book called Find Me the Votes.
I think it was done by Donald Kledeman and Michael Isikoff.
And she said that they had inordinate, inordinate access to her, to Frau Fanny and the whole process and how they came about indicting...
...
And by the way, remember, the whole notion of the special, of the regular grand jury, is secrecy.
And you always want to maintain, and I can't say this enough, that first and foremost, fundamental, fundamental in the basket of concerns of the prosecutor is always, is always, fundamental.
Fairness.
Justice.
Not convictions, but fairness.
So she was talking about this one.
This was incredible, this access that she had.
Wade, Nathan Wade, was paid more than anybody else.
This guy, John...
Oh, John...
Oh, the...
John Floyd.
This was the...
Rico, the racketeering expert, this guy was really the fellow who knew what was going on.
And according to them, he paid more.
This is the part where Wade was paid more than anybody.
And he had inordinate, this inordinate, this, let me always check these names here, always checking the names.
He had inordinate.
A run of the office.
And people kept saying, who is this guy?
He was in charge, perhaps, of finding who was...
He was...
I want to make sure that's right.
He was always found...
Yes, that's right, John Floyd.
He's from Bondurant, Mixon, and Elmore.
This kind of a white shoe, dare I say, firm, who basically is the only adult...
In this entire organization?
Anyway, what's his name?
Loverboy was paid more than this guy.
This guy is, I mean, he's the Philip Corboy, if you will, of the Georgia board.
And they paid way more?
I mean, I don't know if it was double, but more than anybody else.
Okay, is that illegal?
No.
No, it's not illegal.
And is that a conflict of interest, necessarily?
No.
No, not really.
Then we also find out that this was the most important part.
This really, this freaked me out.
This IOLTA, this Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts.
I-O-L-T-A.
When you go to a lawyer's office and you are, let's say you go to a lawyer, and there's a closing.
And you get a million dollars and the million dollars goes into your escrow account.
And that escrow account is basically not your money.
It's not anybody's money.
It's there for purposes to protect the client.
And you cannot commingle your fees and your monies with this special thing that is so, oh my God, this thing has to be regulated.
They're talking about leaving money in the IOLTA account.
I mean, it's incredible.
Wade, I know that Terrence Bradley's got serious problems with the bar down the road.
But we're learning about that.
Which goes to show you again, these people don't seem to know anything about the rules.
Then we find out that, that's right, he was paid almost double the salary of his colleagues.
And that Fannie met with Kamala Harris before she indicted Donald Trump.
She's meeting with Kamala.
Do we know what they talked about?
We don't know what.
Nobody knows.
She also said that there was about 12,000 text messages that Frau Fannie and Loverboy exchanged before they claimed to have started their relationship.
12,000!
This is just being friends.
It's ridiculous.
It's bizarre.
Then, Ashley sketched out the theory that, and this might be a tad far-fetched, but I like it, that Frau Fanny and Loverboy deliberately brought this complex case so that it would go on, and that Wade could build more hours, and all this other kind of jazz.
Okay, that might be a little bit, that might be a little bit much, okay?
But what this is, is you get to hear the absolute...
You heard probably more, that hearing today was more informative than any of these motions.
And you also realize...
What a complete and total...
I mean, look, I'm sure the judge is doing a wonderful job, but there's no command of this.
He's already got some opposition.
You know he's not long for the world.
He's not.
He actually doesn't want to be there.
He actually has no control over this.
But what you are seeing, in addition to everything else that we learned this week, the garage door opener, I love that.
You've got Cindy Lee Yeager.
You've got Manny Aurora.
You've got all these other people who are basically saying that they're lying.
She's been lying since day one.
Fannie Willis doesn't care about the truth, doesn't care about the rules, doesn't care about anything.
It's her office.
That's the part that kills me.
It's her office.
She can do whatever she wants.
Think about this.
She even picks up the phone we learned the other day when she said, quote, they are coming after us.
You don't need to talk to them about anything about us.
She basically tells poor Pazzo, this poor guy, Terrence Bradley, he doesn't have a friend.
He is so...
He buried himself.
He buried everybody.
He is a critical witness.
I hope he's in a witness protection.
I don't want him to be a kid-twist relis being tossed out of the Half Moon Lodge, if you know your organized crime history.
You know, this canary can't fly.
Remember that one?
Anyway, I digress.
This was incredible.
And yet, and then I heard, and then there was this thing where, listen to this, this blew me away.
During the course of this, I could have sworn, I heard, and we're going to be a couple of days later when we go through and read everything, I could have sworn.
That actually, Merchant said that at one particular point, Frau Fanny was talking about some financial problems she had.
Where did she get $8 million from?
With an annual revenue of $2.7 million?
She only gets like $100,000 to $200,000 for her office.
$5 million in real estate, $2 million in stocks and equities and gold.
I mean, what?
What?
What?
This case is so gone.
It's the worst.
It's the worst.
But Ashley, she's going everywhere.
Watch her.
Watch her.
Believe me, I'm telling you, she's going to have her own...
She is going...
You know, I hope she's got agents, you know that Fox or whatever she's going to be, if she can, she's going to be their Jen Psaki.
She is...
Perfect.
She knows exactly what to say.
She is not afraid of cameras.
She is not this stodgy.
I mean, she's no Jonathan Turley, but then again, who is?
But she's young, and she's effervescent, and she's perfect with this.
And that poor Nyoko, they had this, oh my God, who is this guy?
Say Senator Harold V. Jones II.
Get him out of there!
He's the worst!
What was the purpose behind this?
Let me tell you something.
This case is just...
It's not just going to...
How do I say this?
Frau Fanny's concerns are not just merely going to be the fact that they're going to basically dismiss this case completely, disqualify her.
They're going to disqualify her.
They're going to go after her because nobody knew.
And the other DAs are going to say, you better do something, grind her into dust, because we're trying to play by the rules, and they're going to think we're all like this.
You're not going to see her again.
She's going to be like Pauly.
Remember that with Clemenza?
Don't worry about Pauly, you're not going to be seeing him again.
This is...
And by the way, leave the gun, bring the cannoli.
This is...
I think I've had enough Godfather references, don't you think?
Get ready, my friends.
Get ready.
But understand what I'm telling you.
I'm not going to sit back and just merely tell you this one said this and this one said that.
I'm going to tell you what it means.
And what it means is this is the greatest.
This is an implosion.
This is the death knell.
Political career and otherwise for Fanny, Frau Fanny, and Loverboy, the garage door lover.
I love that.
I don't know what the hell that even means, but it sounds good.
Alright, dear friends.
We'll talk to you soon.
Thank you so much.
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