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Ashleigh Merchant, the Georgia attorney who exposed the affair between Fulton County DA Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, reacted to news that Willis had been disqualified from her prosecution of President-elect Trump in Georgia.
"She could have done the right thing early on, whenever we brought this to everyone's attention, and said, 'Hey, let's have a neutral prosecutor handle this case. Let's have someone else look at it.' But I think she was terrified because her case was so weak, she didn't want someone else to look at it," Merchant told Fox News Channel's Steve Doocy.
Based on Merchant's uncovering of Willis' relationship with Wade, Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that Willis must either withdraw herself and her team from the 2020 election interference case or remove Wade as special prosecutor. Following the decision, Wade resigned from his position in the case, leaving Willis to continue it.
At the time, Merchant expressed her desire to have seen Willis removed from the case entirely, writing in a statement,"While we believe the court should have disqualified Willis' office entirely, this opinion is a vindication that everything put forth by the defense was true, accurate and relevant to the issues surrounding our client's right to a fair trial."Merchant's goal to see Willis ousted happened months later on Thursday, after the state appeals court declared that Willis' "appearance of impropriety" constitutes "the rare case in which disqualification is mandated, and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.
Merchant characterized it as an obvious decision, telling Doocy that Willis' impropriety was "something that you couldn't turn your eye away from, and I think that's something the court of appeals said."
"It's one of those things that you know it when you see it," Merchant continued. "It's the appearance of impropriety. It is so great that it had to be enough to kick them off the case."
After speculating that Willis wouldn't willingly leave the case because of its weakness, Merchant expressed her belief that if a more "neutral prosecutor" got hold of the case, they would have it dismissed.
"I've always thought, if a neutral prosecutor - someone who didn't have a financial interest in this case and a political interest in this case - looked at it, that they would see things differently. And they would decide that the taxpayers, the courts, the people who are charging the case, they deserve this case to be dismissed."

"You and the people who pay your salary in the US would very much like to see Russia in a weakened state," he said. "I believe Russia has become much stronger over the past two to three years."
Comment: Most of those funds were washed back to the EU kleptocracy and the U.S. MIC.
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That's why Biden has been shoveling money into Ukraine in the dying days of his administration. The decades-long gravy train is ending:Biden Administration to Unveil Final $1.2 Billion Ukraine Aid Package Amid Uncertain Future for U.S. Support
One of the many reasons we don't have nice things.