Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! This morning, one story’s ample body eclipsed all the other news and we have a single-topic special edition roundup: the dramatic first day of Fani Willis’s testimony in Atlanta. By now you have probably already seen lots of clips and read dozens of hot takes. As a litigator with experience in these types of cases, I couldn’t resist, so I’m going to dig a little deeper into this remarkable and important story and try to give you some commentary and context you haven’t heard yet.

Corporate media wants you to view this two-day hearing as a desperate distraction, a wild, last-ditch effort by the Trump Defendants to deflect from their own misdeeds by prying into the prosecution’s personal lives. Don’t be misled. You are watching history unfold. The players, DA Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, are meant to occupy chapters in history books as the courageous crimefighters who rescued democracy. With all our fates intimately intertwined with those of Willis and Wade, it is imperative that we know just who are they?

Nothing like this has ever happened in the Country’s 248-year history. The paramount question of ultimate importance is whether it will ever happen again.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/foolish-fanny-friday-february-16?

Update

Fani chickens out…will not appear in court today

How come she gets to decide when to show up and when not to show up. This judge looks to be a weak little shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmpaPK5GEs&t=360s