#JMerchant then defends his wife’s, #AMerchant, credentials: My wife was called a liar. The text msgs prove everything she put into that motion. She verified w/[Bradley] what she put into the filing.
#McAfee: How does the timing of the relationship impact the financial interest?
JMerchant: she appointed #NathanWade for him to get the money. #FaniWillis created the scheme & didn't tell anyone about it. They hid it & tried to create an excuse by saying it happened after the fact.
#Sadow: All you have to find is a legitimate concern over their truthfulness about the timing of their relationship & that rises to the level of an appearance of impropriety.
Sadow: #TerrenceBradley texted w/ #AMerchant for months. He told her they "absolutely" dated before #NathanWade was appointed. Bradley, unprompted, texts to Merchant that "it started when she left the DA's Office & was a judge in south Fulton." Bradley definitively told AMerchant that it started before Wade was appointed.
After a break the State of Georgia the office of [#DA#FaniWillis] is up now.
[Willis is seated at counsel's table.]
DA: #TerrenceBradley did not impeach anyone, including #Wade. Any of Bradley's testimony was improper impeachment because it did not confront Wade in any way. Maybe Bradley lied to #AMerchant. Yeartie told her atty she had no info about the relationship.
DA: The standard for DQ requires the defense to show an actual conflict of interest that Willis received a financial benefit.
#McAfee to #AMerchant: Wasn't there a promise made by you that Bradley would impeach specific witnesses?
#Georgia#DA: Yes, that's what was represented to the Court. AMerchant represented that #TerrenceBradley would be an “impeaching machine" but he wasn't able to impeach anyone.
DA: Bradley was asked "do you think it started before Willis hired Wade"? His answer of
"absolutely" was based on the "do you think" part of the question. The question itself asked Bradley to speculate.
#Georgia#DA: #FaniWillis' father testified as to why Willis kept the cash in her home & the fact that he resided in her house in 2019 & Wade did not visit nor cohabitate as #AMerchant asserted. There’s been no evidence to the contrary re what Willis & her father said.
#McAfee: Was it fmr Gov Barnes' testimony that he was the first to be asked by Willis to lead the prosecution or just to be a prosecutor?
DA: To lead the prosecution. Barnes also testified to Wade’s qualifications.