Elie Honig Declares That Fani Willis’s Win Comes at ‘Devastating’ Cost, Potential ‘Career Ender’

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said on Friday that there were seven separate potentially career-ending lines for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Judge Scott McAfee’s decision to allow her to remain involved in the case she’s brought against former President Donald Trump .

Despite having submitted earlier in the morning that McAfee’s decision was “pretty close to the best” that Willis could have expected, Honig also noted that the language in the decision was extremely damaging to Willis’s reputation.

“So if I’m the D.A., I’m taking this as a win. It is a win, she has survived. That is the most important thing here; I’d be breathing a sigh of relief. But Sara earlier said there’s some bruising involved — wow, is there some bruising,” began Honig. “Let me just give you the seven, I think, most severe lines. And these are really serious findings by the judge about the D.A. and these are all verbatim from the opinion.”

He continued:

First of all, there is a, quote, “significant appearance of impropriety that infects the prosecution team.” Second, “a tremendous lack in judgment.” Third, “the unprofessional manner of the D.A.’s testimony.” Fourth, “the odor of mendacity remains.” I Googled mendacity, it means lying. Fifth, the legally improper speech that was made in the church that Laura just talked about, “legally improper with the effect to cast racial aspersions on the defendants.” Sixth, the D. A. has “created dangerous waters for the D.A. to wade further into.” And finally, and I think this is the most damning, “there are reasonable questions about whether the D.A. testified untruthfully.”

“Any one of these statements by a judge would be a career ender for a normal prosecutor,” declared Honig. “To have an on the record finding that there are reasonable questions about whether you lied under oath? That would be devastating.”

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