Weissmann: ‘Fani Willis, for This Case To Be Protected, Really Needs to Remove Herself Voluntarily’

SCARBOROUGH: “And Andrew, it’s so fascinating, what Danny just said. He’s exactly right. It’s not what happened before, the conduct before, that’s going to ensnarl them down the road if they get further ensnarled by ethics claims and other things. It’s what happened after the investigation into this began. That testimony, whoa! Yeah, the Georgia Bar and people on both sides of the aisle are going to be shaking their head as they go through all the testimony line by line, all the evidence line by line. And I couldn’t agree with Danny more. It’s what they did once the investigation started, and not before, that’s going to cause them problems in the future.”
WEISSMANN: “So, what prosecutor does not know it’s the cover-up, not the underlying conduct that’s going to get you in trouble? This is exactly what happened with Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. If he had simply said, ‘I’m returning them,’ as Mike Pence did and Joe Biden did, there wouldn’t have been a case there. It was the cover-up and the obstruction over and over again in that case that’s the problem. Here, if they had simply said, ‘Absolutely, we had a relationship? You know what? We tried to split money, but maybe we weren’t perfect,’ None of this would have been an issue. By the way, None of that excuses — you cannot take the stand and give anything less than candid testimony. The fact that they did not understand that the cover-up was going to be the problem, that is why the judge here had such harsh words for what happened. He was not troubled by what actually happened in terms of their relationship. That is not what he’s focusing on. He is focusing on the conduct in terms of what happened at the hearing, you know, as rightly he should be. And the reason it is so infuriating is because it damages this case. That’s why I really think it’s not just Wade, who obviously is going to be removed, but I think Fani Willis, for this case to be protected, really needs to remove herself voluntarily so that this doesn’t linger and this case can go forward in the strongest possible way, because the judge has found — just to repeat it, the judge has found there is no prejudice to the defendants here.”