Fani Willis knows that she is about to be in even bigger trouble.
There is nowhere she can hide from being forced to come clean.
And Fani Willis is biting her nails in fear after being ordered to surrender these secret documents in court.
Judge orders Willis to surrender documents related to her hiring of P.R. firm
Lawyer Ashleigh Merchant currently represents Trump co-defendant Mike Roman in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ 2020 Election political witch hunt against former President Donald Trump.
Merchant is the lawyer who blew the lid on the story surrounding Willis’ secret affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
She also filed the motion to disqualify Willis, which is the greatest threat to her entire case.
But Merchant just scored another massive victory against Willis in court.
A judge just ruled that Willis’ office had violated laws requiring her to comply with an open records request that would compel her to surrender records related to her hiring of a firm that monitored media coverage immediately before initiating her witch hunt against Trump and his co-defendants.
Merchant argued that her request for these records came down to ensuring accountability for public officials, including Fani Willis.
“She is the elected DA. It’s her office,” Merchant noted. “I think that every government agency has a duty to respond to open records requests.”
“I think when you have an elected official that they are the ones who are held accountable by the public,” she continued. “They are the ones who set the policy.”
She argued in court that the documents Willis had turned over were insufficient for satisfying the request because they were loaded with redactions and clearly missing information.
“The first one is what I would call a compilation of documents. It was 44 pages,” Merchant added. “It was clearly cut and pasted.”
“Someone had removed dates, times, parties, subject matter, things like that. So someone had to actively take those documents and redact them,” continued the lawyer. “From the cut outs, it literally looked like they copy-pasted them.”
The severity of the controversy sets in
In January of 2024, the Daily Caller had published a report related to documents that exposed Willis’ office for dropping $10,000 in taxpayer funds on a public relations firm called Critical Mentions.
One of the documents bragged about how Willis had received media coverage equating to $150 million worth once she announced her plan to target Donald Trump.
“We are getting more coverage via your name than by title,” a memo issued to Willis stated. “This graph has the coverage value for the last week at over $150 million.”
“I ran a report for mentions of ‘Fulton County District Attorney’ worldwide for the last seven days. Critical Mention (the PR monitoring platform I told you guys about that we contract for last week) gives a ‘publicity value’ to the coverage, which is meant to reflect what it would cost to buy paid advertising equivalent to the penetration of the media coverage,” noted an email to Willis.
“While it can be a bit exaggerated, it says in the last week we’ve gotten media coverage equivalent to $67 million in advertising,” continued the message. “Even half of that value would be staggering.”
Willis has been subject to allegations that she had elected to target Trump solely for the purpose of spring boarding her political career to give her better odds in a future run for statewide office.
These documents are further evidence that she was interested in determining how much her public profile gained as a result of the investigation.
And Merchant clearly seems to believe that Willis was trying to mask the depth of this scandal by refusing to cooperate and comply with her open records request.
