Georgia’s Former Republican Lt. Gov. Calls Fani Willis Hearing a ‘Sideshow’: ‘Like Two Teenagers…Caught By Their Parents’
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) dismissed hearings on accusations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis a “sideshow.”
Duncan, a current CNN commentator, joined Kasie Hunt on CNN This Morning on Wednesday and reacted to the latest testimony in the Willis hearings, which came from former Nathan Wade law partner Terrence Bradley. Bradley was unable to concretely tell the court when a romantic relationship between Willis and Wade began.
Willis is behind a number of indictments against Donald Trump and several of his key allies in an election racketeering case related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state of Georgia. One of the co-defendants, Mike Roman, accused Willis and Wade of having a romantic relationship before the latter was hired on as a special prosecutor in the Trump case.
Duncan called the case a distraction and said it continues to “cast doubt” on the elections case.
“The big takeaway for me is it just continues to just cast doubt and I think at the end of the day that’s a big problem here. Trump and his cast of characters, you get them an inch and they take a mile and so even if this doesn’t prove to be a technical default or disqualify her or Nathan Wade, it just continues to cast doubt on the process,” he said.
Duncan argued Willis never should have had such a relationship with someone who worked with her.
“I don’t think she should have had a relationship with someone like Nathan Wade throughout this entire process and whenever you run for elected office, you know you’re held to a higher standard and she ran for elected office. And then in addition to that, when you take on a former president and put a number of indictments on the table, you raise it to an even higher bar,” he said.
Duncan was previously subpoenaed to testify for a Fulton County grand jury on the racketeering case, as CNN reported.
The former lieutenant governor ultimately argued the hearings had become too personal and a “sideshow” as Willis, Wade, and even Willis’s father have all been questioned about the details of the relationship.
“This whole thing’s playing out a lot like two teenagers that were running around and getting caught by their parents and being asked uncomfortable questions,” Duncan said. “I mean, to hear her dad in the courtroom answering some questions and Nathan Wade having to talk about the last time they had sex — I mean, this is just hard, difficult stuff, and it’s just a side show as to what we should be talking about and that is a group of individuals who tried to usurp democracy and try to attack the actual validity of the election.”
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