Did you forget, or perhaps never hear what despicables did when congress certified the 2016 election results?

 

Hillary conceded 24 hours after the election.

So shooter, when did Trump concede the 2020 election?

Any ideas?

 

Its a different approach for sure. Fanni tends to do her talking in church.


Fani Willis unloads at church after court: 'No weapon formed against you shall prosper'

David Edwards
February 19, 2024 11:34AM ET



Atlanta Berean Church




Fulton County District Attorney spoke out over the weekend for the first time after testifying in Fulton County Superior Court.

On Saturday, Willis accepted a Black History Achievement Award at Atlanta Berean Church. The ceremony came just days after Willis testified about an affair she had with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade.

"So when I was invited here, it was really heartwarming, because to me, this is family, because family helps you when you're up and when you're down," Willis remarked. "There are things going on recently that I won't talk about, but everybody did not embrace me during those times, and Berean has continued to embrace me."

The district attorney said people had sent her scripture as she coped with allegations of a conflict of interest in Donald Trump's election interference case.

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"The Scripture they keep sending me is, no weapon formed against you shall prosper," she explained. "I need y'all to hear me, though. They did not say the weapons will not form."

"And that's the part I didn't hear until recently," Willis continued. "Just because they won't prosper, it doesn't mean that they won't form, even if you feel like everything you are doing in your life is the right thing, and you're making mistakes all along the way, but you're trying."

"You should not think that those weapons will not form."

Willis admitted to engaging in a personal relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to lead her election subversion case against Donald Trump earlier this month.

But the district attorney denied her relationship with lead investigator Nathan Wade had tainted the case in a filing that called allegations by Trump's co-defendant Mike Roman “meritless” and “salacious." She asked a judge to dismiss motions by the former president and other defendants seeking to disqualify her.

Roman's attorneys say the district attorney was engaged in a “personal, romantic relationship” with Wade, whose law firm has been paid more than $653,000 by Willis’ office since he was hired as an outside prosecutor in November 2021.

Bank records made public in Wade's divorce case show he purchased airline tickets for himself and Willis to Aruba in October 2022 and to San Francisco in April 2023, although it's not clear whether Willis reimbursed him or went on the trips.

The Trump co-defendant claims Willis may have broken the law by hiring Wade and then allowing him to pay for unrelated "vacations around the world," and Roman's filing calls for both prosecutors to be disqualified and charges against him to be dismissed.

Watch the video from Atlanta Berean Church below or at this link.


https://www.rawstory.com/fani-willis-black-history-award/

 

CNN Does Stunning Interview With Witness Who Backs Up Anti-Trump DA Fani Willis On Cash Claims
Tommy ChristopherFeb 20th, 2024, 1:24 pm


CNN tracked down a witness who backs up key claims by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — and scored an exclusive interview against a truly stunning background.

Last week, Willis took the witness stand in a hearing over a challenge brought by one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election crimes case that seeks to have Willis removed for an alleged conflict of interest.

A key point in the case against disqualifying Willis is that she did not financially benefit from her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade because she repaid him with cash for shared expenses.


On Tuesday’s edition of CNN News Central, CNN correspondent Zachary Cohen told anchor Kate Bolduan that Stan Brody — who was estate ambassador for Acumen Wines when Willis and Wade visited the winery together last year — backed up the prosecutor’s testimony.

He then played a clip of an interview that did just that — but which also drew comment from the anchors about that comical background:

KATE BOLDUAN: You spoke with this host. What did he tell you?

ZACH COHEN: Yeah. When Fani Willis took the stand last week, she argued there was no financial benefit that she received from her relationship with Nathan Wade because at the end of the day, they effectively split the cost of these vacations that have come out in these allegations against her.

And that includes a trip to Napa Valley in 2023. And that’s where my interview with Stan Brody comes into play here.

Stan worked at the winery at the time, and he hosted Fani Willis and Nathan Wade that day. And he said, he recalls, when the bill came. Fani Willis not only picked up the check, but she paid in cash almost $400 in cash, which struck him as odd.

But take a listen to what he told me about that encounter with Fani Willis and Nathan Wade last year.

STAN BRODY: I ran up to saying, and I showed her, I was expecting a credit card, quite frankly. And, no, she says, “I’ll pay cash.”

And so that was that. So then I just put the cash in, made change for her. And she was very generous to me.

ZACH COHEN: So Stan was apparently in outer space when we did our interview.

But his — what he said, it actually does relate and is important to the in the context of the case in Georgia. Because look, without — when you pay cash there’s no paper trail. And that is a sticking point for the judge who is weighing whether or not to disqualify Fani Willis over this issue of whether or not she benefited financially.

And sources I’ve talked to say that if Fani Willis is thrown off the case, it will effectively end any hope of prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia.

KATE BOLDUAN: Great reporting, Zach, thank you so much. And we do all love a creative zoom background.

Watch above via CNN News Central.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/cnn-d...-up-anti-trump-da-fani-willis-on-cash-claims/

 

Trump has had plenty of financial dealings with shady Russian oligarchs.

 

Trump has had plenty of deals with foreign companies and individuals.
So has Apple, so has Microsoft.

The shady part appears to be your opinion and irrelevant.

 

If you insist.
Trump’s Conflicts of Interest in Canada
A troubled Trump project in Toronto links to a large and unexplained infusion of funds from a Russian bank suspected of espionage and efforts to interfere with the U.S. presidential election.
Shady dealings north of the border
In 2007, the Trump Organization broke ground on a $500 million Canadian project in Toronto in partnership with the real estate development firm Talon International Development Inc. Five years later, in 2012, Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka cut the ribbon on the gleaming 65-story Trump International Hotel and Tower Toronto that was the result of that partnership. The ribbon cutting ceremony may have been the high-water mark for the ambitious project. President Trump’s partner in the enterprise was Russian-born Canadian Alexander Shnaider, who leads Talon. The deal between the two companies was a licensing and management arrangement in which the Trump Organization provided the use of the Trump name for the hotel and tower and also managed the property in exchange for royalties and management fees. For his part, Shnaider was to develop the tower and the condominiums.

The project, however, was beset by financial problems almost from its onset, and The Wall Street Journal recently broke the story of some troubling sources of finance associated with the project. As that story notes:

VEB, a Russian state-run bank under scrutiny by U.S. investigators, financed a deal involving Donald Trump’s onetime partner in a Toronto hotel tower at a key moment for the project, according to people familiar with the transaction. Alexander Shnaider, a Russian-Canadian developer who built the 65-story Trump International Hotel and Tower, put money into the project after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from a separate asset sale that involved the Russian bank, whose full name is Vnesheconombank.

Vnesheconombank has become a key subject of focus for U.S. investigators looking at links between Trump and his team and Russian interference in the U.S. political system. VEB is currently on the U.S. sanctions list, and it has frequently been used to provide cover for Russian intelligence operatives in the field. Russian President Vladimir Putin was chairman of the bank’s supervisory board at the time of the Trump deal with Schnaider. A Trump Organization spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that Trump was not involved in any of the financial dealings with VEB, noting that the organization, “merely licensed its brand and manages the hotel and residences.” VEB did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.


In addition, presidential son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny for meeting with VEB’s chairman during the transition period. Kushner initially failed to disclose the meeting, and VEB officials and Kushner have provided contradictory statements regarding under what capacity Kushner took part in the meeting. VEB officials claim the meeting was to discuss new business opportunities, even as Trump was set to be sworn in as president, while administration officials assert that Kushner did not discuss business during the meeting.

According to a number of news reports—and verified by court records—a VEB official was also engaged in an effort to recruit the Trump campaign’s foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, as a Russian agent. This VEB official was eventually arrested for espionage in 2015 and plead guilty to “conspiracy to act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government.” He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and dealt a $100,000 fine.

This considerable pattern of engagement with VEB and the large infusion of Russian money into the Toronto project seriously call into question Trump’s assertion that he personally has “nothing to do with Russia” and that “no person that I deal with does.” The Toronto project also makes clear that Russian money can easily pass through second or third parties before it flows directly to Trump interests.


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As Jeremy Venook at The Atlantic noted, “As with many of Trump’s business holdings, the property represents a conflict of interest because it brings him revenue that’s made possible by money from a bank owned and operated by a foreign government.” Through his licensing arrangement with Talon, Trump still profits from the building and—because Shnaider leads Talon—by extension, from Shnaider’s sale involving VEB, which “potentially gives the Russian government leverage that it could use should it want to influence Trump’s policies.” Such an arrangement may be a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which bars elected officials from accepting gifts from a foreign state.

Even with a massive infusion of questionable outside money, the Trump project in Toronto had gone into receivership by November 2016, and it was sold for a fraction of its original cost in March 2017.

The Trump Organization also has a licensing and management agreement, announced in 2013, with the real estate company Holborn Group for a Trump-branded hotel and tower in Vancouver—a project that brings its own set of conflicts. Like the Trump Organization, the Holborn Group is a family run business, headed by Joo Kim Tiah, the eldest son of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families. Tiah’s father, Tony Tiah Thee Kian, was convicted in 2002 of providing false information to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, for which he was fined roughly $675,000. He now serves as the executive chairman of TA Global Berhad, the company behind the Holborn Group.

As the Financial Times chronicles, “The Vancouver development raises the risk of violating the emoluments clause in the US constitution prohibiting elected officials from receiving benefits from foreign governments. The hotel also invites scrutiny of his business partners such as the elder Mr. Tiah, who was convicted of providing a false report to the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange.”

Some of the units in the Vancouver property have been bought by investors with strong ties to the Chinese government, again suggesting a pattern that has been seen elsewhere where Beijing may be purchasing Trump properties as part of an effort to influence his decision-making.

Follow the paper trail
According to Trump’s July 2015 financial disclosure—which was not verified by regulators and therefore may not include all of his foreign deals or assets—Trump made at least $571,665 and owned, had ownership interest in, or was a managing member of several companies related to his business in Canada, including the following:

• DT Marks Vancouver LP, partner, president
• DT Marks Vancouver Manager Corp., director, chairman, president
• DT Marks Vancouver Member Corp., owner
• THC Vancouver Management Corp., director, chairman, president, received $28,571 in management fees
• THC Vancouver Payroll ULC, director, president
• Toronto Development LLC, member, president
• Trump Marks Toronto Corp., director, president
• Trump Marks Toronto LLC, member, president
• Trump Marks Toronto LP (formally Trump Toronto Management LP), partner
• Trump Toronto Development Inc., director, president, secretary, received “None (or less than $201)”
• Trump Toronto Hotel Management Corp., president, received $543,094 in management fees
• Trump Toronto Member Corp. (formally Trump Toronto Management Member Corp.), director, chairman
• Trump Canadian Services Inc., president, secretary
• Trump Education ULC, director, chairman

According to Trump’s May 2016 financial disclosure—which was also not verified by regulators and therefore may not include all of his foreign deals or assets—Trump made at least $647,578 and owned, had ownership interest in, or was a managing member of several companies related to his business in Canada, including the following:

• DT Marks Vancouver LP, partner, president
• DT Marks Vancouver Manager Corp., director, chairman, president
• DT Marks Vancouver Member Corp., owner
• THC Vancouver Management Corp., director, chairman, president, received $35,714 in management fees
• THC Vancouver Payroll ULC, director, president
• Toronto Development LLC, member, president
• Trump Marks Toronto Corp., director, president
• Trump Marks Toronto LLC, member, president
• Trump Marks Toronto LP (formerly Trump Toronto Management LP), partner
• Trump Toronto Development Inc., director, president, secretary
• Trump Toronto Hotel Management Corp., president, received $611,864 in management fees
• Trump Toronto Member Corp. (formerly Trump Toronto Management Member Corp.), director, chairman
• Trump Canadian Services Inc., president, secretary
• Trump Education ULC, director, chairman

Based on both disclosure forms, Trump received at least $1,219,243 in management fees from his Canada projects over the previous two years, and he and his children will presumably continue to receive money from these arrangements. Interestingly, unlike for his other licensing arrangements, these forms do not appear to list any royalties Trump received from these projects.

Trump’s Canada projects have all the hallmarks of his classic conflicts of interest: links to Russian money; grand business plans that end in receivership; a willingness to comingle the office of the president with his own financial interests; and foreign governments that may be looking to buy property as an easy means to influence him. At a time when the North American Free Trade Agreement is about to be renegotiated, potentially affecting millions of American workers, do the American people really want a president who is possibly more concerned with investigations into Russian money in his business dealings in Toronto and into Chinese influence in his project in Vancouver than he is about American jobs?

 

'Street fighter' Fani Willis earns praise from former federal prosecutor

Matthew Chapman
February 20, 2024 9:59AM ET



ATLANTA, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 15: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Judge Scott McAfee is hearing testimony as to whether Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade should be disqualified from the case for allegedly lying about a personal relationship. (Photo by Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images)




Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner lauded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a video posted to X on Tuesday, calling her exactly the sort of "street fighter" necessary to take down former President Donald Trump.

Willis -- who is prosecuting the election racketeering case in Georgia that includes Trump, several of his lawyers, and a handful of state GOP operatives -- is currently defending herself in an ethics hearing on her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor in her office, and she has grown visibly frustrated as Trump's co-defendants have made accusations of misconduct without hard evidence.

Some commentators have criticized her demeanor on the stand as she defended herself — which made Kirschner bristle.

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"I have been thinking a lot of what is unfolding in that courtroom down in Georgia, when Fani Willis took the stand and testified about the lies the defense had told about her," said Kirschner, who worked with former FBI Director Robert Mueller before his special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. "And there are some who say, Fani Willis was too loud, she was too brash, she was too angry. Are you kidding me?"

"Imagine being a public servant, trying to hold a criminal former President of the United States accountable for trying to steal the election from the people of your state," Kirschner said. "Then be accused of being too loud, too brash, and too angry, when you are exposing the lies that Trump told about you? No. No."

"I for one applaud her testimony, and I would expect her to be loud and aggressive and forceful and even angry at what she has had to endure — not only the lies, but the death threats and being driven from her home, simply for trying to hold Donald Trump accountable for his crimes," he added.

Watch the video below or at this link.


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Prosecuting Trump takes a street fighter. DA Willis has proved from day one that she’s a street fighter. And she proved it again with her testimony, forcefully debunking the lies that Trump and his criminal associates/RICO co-defendants told about her.












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Any prosecutor who would praise fani's performance is either not a prosecutor or hes being paid to lie.

That performance probably sank the willis yacht.

 

Nathan Wade appears to have made far more visits to the neighborhood of Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis than previously admitted in court.

 

Trump Faces Setback in Georgia as Fani Willis Triumphs Over Disqualification Efforts

 

This Bombshell Discovery Could Be the Doom of Fani Willis

Mia Cathell | February 26, 2024 6:45 AM





Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade appears to have visited the neighborhood of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis far more times than they claimed under oath and well before when they alleged their affair began, according to an explosive court filing.



Friday's filing—submitted by former President Donald Trump's defense attorneys—says Wade trekked at least 35 times to a residential community in Hapeville, Georgia, where Willis was living at a friend's condominium, and traveled there twice in the middle of the night. The apparent after-hours rendezvous allegedly took place prior to when the pair says the affair started.



Trump's lawyers relied on data collected from Wade's cellphone and its "pings" off of cellular towers close to the condo.

According to an affidavit written by private investigator Charles Mittelstadt, he received AT&T records from the company's Subpoena Compliance Center documenting the call and text history as well the location data of the number belonging to Wade.

"Upon receipt [of the requested records], I began an analysis using a Leads Online analytics tool called CellHawk. CellHawk is considered by law enforcement to be the gold standard in cell phone records analytics. It is used throughout the United States and Georgia by law enforcement agencies" and "should be well known" to the DA's office..."Mittelstadt wrote. "A cornerstone of the CellHawk analytics tool is the inability to manipulate the data. Data is uploaded as received by the cell provider custodian."

Using the CellHawk analytics program, Mittelstadt compiled his discoveries into:

Exhibit A: A report of more than 2,000 voice calls and a little under 10,000 text messages exchanged between Willis and Wade over an 11-month period in 2021, specifically from January 1, 2021, through November 30, 2021, the month of his hiring.

Exhibit B: A heat map of the Wade-Willis interactions capturing "a prevalence of calls made in the evening hours."

Exhibit C: A report of Wade's geolocation activity near the Hapeville condo.

Mittelstadt constructed "a geofence" that isolated two cell towers in closest proximity to the condo's address. From there, he discovered "a minimum of 35 occasions" pre-2022 when Wade's phone connected "for an extended period" to either one of those towers based on Wade's data usage, voice calls, and text messages. The data revealed Wade was "stationary and not in transit."

Specifically, on the evening of September 11, 2021, Wade made a late-night visit to the Hapeville condo's vicinity at 10:45 p.m. and departed overnight at 3:28 a.m. the following morning, Mittelstadt found. According to the cellphone data, shortly after arriving in East Cobb, where his home is situated about a half-hour drive away, Wade sent a text to Willis at 4:20 a.m.

On November 29, 2021, Wade's phone was pinging to the towers near his East Cobb residence, but he allegedly left the area upon receiving a call from Willis at 11:32 p.m. "[W]hile the call continued," Wade headed towards the condo just after midnight, arriving within the geofence at 12:43 a.m. and remaining there for several hours until 4:55 a.m. the next day, Mittelstadt observed.

As required by the court, Willis responded to the filing Friday night.

In a motion demanding that the defense's exhibits be excluded, Willis disputed Mittelstadt's findings and asserted that the Trump team's submission is "clearly inadmissible," has "little evidentiary value," was "not filed in good faith," and "should not be considered by the Court." Willis went so far as to suggest that the cell site location information (CSLI) was not "legally obtained."

Regardless, the cellphone records "simply do not prove anything relevant," the DA's office asserted in the objection. "The records do nothing more than demonstrate that Special Prosecutor Wade's telephone was located somewhere within a densely populated multiple-mile radius where various residences, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and other businesses are located," the rebuttal reads. "The records do not prove, in any way, the content of the communications between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis; they do not prove that Special Prosecutor Wade was ever at any particular location or address; they do not prove that Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis were ever in the same place during any of the times listed..."



One tower is roughly 2,000 feet away and the other is 3,000 feet. Though the perimeter established around the condo, which is two miles from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, also encompasses several businesses, Mittelstadt said his methodology "eliminate the possibility" that hits could be associated with routine travel on the interstate, "nearby attractions," or the airport.

Trump's team pushed back Sunday on Willis's objection, noting that the records were obtained via a subpoena issued to AT&T.

Legal analysts chiming in on the unfolding corruption case against Willis have pointed out that a court-ordered search warrant backed by probable cause is not necessarily needed here, as the state suggests, since the defense counsel is not a state actor.

Mittelstadt's findings contradict what Willis and Wade claimed under intense cross-examination.



Both of them testified at the February 15 evidentiary hearing that they never slept together at the condo in question.

On the witness stand, Wade was explicitly asked if he ever stayed the night there. "Never," Wade replied. Grilled on how frequently he had visited before his hiring, Wade told Trump's lead attorney Steve Sadow it was no more than 10 times:

SADOW: "And would you say that was frequent? When I say frequent, do you think prior to November 1st of 2021, you were at the condo more than 10 times?"

WADE: "No, sir."

SADOW: "So, if phone records were to reflect that you were making phone calls from the same location as a condo before November 1 of 2021, and it was on multiple occasions, the phone records would be wrong?"

WADE: "If the phone records reflected that? Yes, sir."

SADOW: "They'd be wrong?"

WADE: "They'd be wrong."

Questioned how many times Wade paid her a visit in 2021, Willis replied: "I don't think often, but I don't want to speculate." When pressed by Sadow for a number, Willis specified, "Let's say more than 10, but I'm not sure that that's even accurate. He certainly has come and picked me up, gone and grabbed some food to eat," adding: "I don't remember him being in that condo a lot."

Willis insisted that no one, except maybe one of her daughters, ever spent the night with her at the condo.

If the defense can prove that they lied during sworn testimony, it could constitute perjury and potentially bring forth criminal charges. Keep in mind that Willis is trying to convict Trump on charges of making false statements and filing false documents.

"[T]his would make this controversy far more serious than disqualification from this case. It could raise concerns over potential criminal conduct. It could also push the court to refer both attorneys to the bar," legal scholar Jonathan Turley remarks.



Willis is accused of deriving personal benefit from appointing Wade, her lover, to serve as special prosecutor in the sprawling Georgia RICO case against Trump. The relationship's timing is a critical component of the defense's argument that the affair compromised the case's integrity, as the Trump co-defendants seek to dismiss the grand jury indictment as "fatally defective."

In court, the couple claimed the romantic relationship didn't begin until spring 2022, after his appointment on November 1, 2021.

However, ex-Willis staffer Robin Bryan-Yeartie, the DA's former friend who allowed Willis to sublet her condo, testified she had "no doubt" that the affair started earlier than they alleged. Believing the fling began as early as 2019, Yeartie recounted witnessing Willis and Wade intimately embracing each other, such as hugging," "kissing," and showing "affection."

Judge Scott McAfee, who's presiding over proceedings that could result in the DA's removal from the prosecution, will now need to decide whether to admit the affidavit and the cellphone data into evidence. Mittelstadt says he is readily available to testify.



The disqualification proceedings are expected to continue this week with the defense's "star witness" Terrence Bradley, who was Wade's divorce attorney, appearing Monday before McAfee. The judge has denied Wade's bid to block Bradley's appearance.

Closing arguments on the defense's motion to disqualify Willis have been scheduled for Friday, March 1.