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Patriot Brief

• Fani Willis lashed out when questioned about payments to her former romantic partner.

• She deflected scrutiny by accusing critics of racism instead of addressing invoices.

• Georgia lawmakers say her conduct still warrants full investigation.

Watching Fani Willis testify before the Georgia Senate was a master class in political deflection. Instead of calmly addressing serious questions about taxpayer money and her relationship with Nathan Wade, she pivoted hard — straight to allegations of racial abuse. If those claims are true, they absolutely deserve investigation. But they are not a magic eraser for ethical misconduct.

The issue on the table wasn’t name-calling. It was whether Willis exercised sound judgment while paying her boyfriend hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute Donald Trump — and whether she personally benefited from that arrangement. Judges have already ruled her actions created an “appearance of impropriety,” and she was ultimately removed from the case. Those facts didn’t disappear just because she raised her voice.

Public officials don’t get to choose which questions they answer. Playing the race card may rally supporters, but it doesn’t change the paper trail, the cash payments with no receipts, or the findings of multiple courts. Oversight isn’t harassment — it’s accountability.

From Western Journal:

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis became angry when questioned by a Georgia Senate Committee on Wednesday about invoices that her former boyfriend, Nathan Wade, submitted while he served as special counsel in her office, overseeing the prosecution of Donald Trump.

Willis then suggested the committee should instead be investigating racial epithets that she said have been directed at her as a result of her prosecution of Trump.

In August 2023, Willis announced the indictment of the then-former president and 18 others under an anti-racketeering law for their alleged involvement in interfering with the 2020 election results in Georgia, the Associated Press reported.

Defense attorneys argued that Willis’s hiring of Wade as a special counsel while the two were engaged in a romantic relationship constituted a conflict of interest.

Willis was accused of personally benefiting financially from the high salary she gave him in the form of lavish personal trips they took together. She said that they split expenses evenly on the trips, and that she repaid him in cash, and therefore had no records of the transactions.

The New York Post reported in January 2024 that Wade received $250 per hour, and the total payments to his law office in 2022 and 2023 totaled $653,880, according to Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA-TV.

On Wednesday, state Sen. Greg Dolezal, the vice chair of the committee investigating Willis, presented documents showing expenses that Wade submitted, CNN reported.

Willis immediately became fiery, saying that she had not personally reviewed the documents in question.

Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

“Why don’t you investigate how many times they called me the n word?” pic.twitter.com/luC6E5rORM

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 17, 2025

She described Wade as a public servant, “and for that, [he], like me, has been threatened thousands of times.”

“You want something to investigate as a legislature? Investigate how many times they called me the n-word. Why don’t you investigate that? Why don’t you investigate them writing on my house? Why don’t you investigate the fact that my house has been swatted? If you want something to do with your time that makes sense,” Willis said.

If what she says is true, it would be worth investigating and for authorities to bring criminal charges when appropriate.

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