Daddy and Bradley and Barnes, Oh, my! Plus Frankenstein's monster on real-estate and Hochul on lawfare

Today’s show spends the majority of the time on the Big Fani Willis Evidentiary Hearing day two. It was the prosecutions turn to show Fani in a favorable light and even closed on Thursday with comments to the court that she would be back. However, as I mentioned on Friday’s show, they decided, perhaps after realizing what a disaster it was, to not bring her back to the stand.

To help paint the picture that Fani Willis did nothing wrong, I will focus on three key witnesses from Friday and how each one ended up doing more damage to Fani Willis that the last.

First we start with former Governor of Georgia, Roy Barnes. The point of his testimony was to show the judge that Willis didn’t just give the case to Nathan Wade. He testified that she offered him the chance to be a special counsel against Donald Trump. The problem is Barnes mentioned that Nathan Wade just happened to be at that very meeting. If Wade was not yet involved in the Trump case and there was not relationship yet between Willis and him, why was he there?

Next, they brought her daddy to the stand. He had a bigger job. He had to give credible reasons why Fani Willis would not sleep at her own home at night, why she kept stacks of cash hidden all around the house and how he knew everything about her personal life, yet only heard about her and Wade romantic relationship 7 weeks ago. Similar to Barnes, her daddy made things much worse for her when he finished, including admitting she kept Wade secret from him.

Finally, they put Terrance Bradley back on the stand, a former law partner with Wade and represented Wade during his divorce. It became apparent to everyone, including Bradley, that Willis’s attorneys were out to publicly ruin him, perhaps as a means of discrediting him. Unfortunately, Anna Cross, in her cross-examination, accidentally got him to talk about his personal friendship with Wade and recounted personal stories and events. This led to the Defense stating that they were told they couldn’t ask those questions due to privilege, but now it should be fair game.

After all, Ashleigh Merchant earlier wanted to introduce messages she had between herself and Bradley affirming the details he filed that led to the evidentiary hearing. The judge denied allowing it. But, at the end of the day, the judge literally said he was going to revisit that topic off-camera and in private to see if what had been previously denied should now be considered as part of the case for the defense.

The last subject we dive into is the ruling from NYC from Judge Engoron that the Trump Corporation would be fined $355 million dollars for committing an act of fraud. Engoron stated that Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18 million dollars and thus Trump lied by overstating it’s value for collateral on a loan. The problem Engoron, and by extension, DA Letitia James, will have is seeing a similar property, but three times smaller that Mar-a-Lago, just listed in Florida for nearly $300 million. It’s going to be one of the easiest cases turned over on appeal.

Finally, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) really stepped in it when she appeared on a news program. A caller asked if this could happen to Donald Trump, wouldn’t it happen to any other real-estate investor? She said no because this case was only about Trump. So much for this not being politically motivated!

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