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Joining me now, Caroline Levitt, who's the national press secretary for the Trump campaign. Caroline, what are the president's thoughts today about this hearing? Well, President Trump has long said that this Fannie Willis case is a sham. It has no legal basis, and it should be dismissed. And today, the entire world got to see that President Trump is 100% right. Even MSDNC, the legal analysts over there on Joe Biden's own propaganda network, admitted that Fannie Willis had a very bad day. But more importantly, Laura, Joe Biden had a very bad day because it's Joe Biden and his White House who are relying on these sham cases from Fulton County, Georgia to New York City to Washington, D.C., led by these far left Democrat district attorneys and prosecutors to take down his leading political opposition, and that is President Trump. If you look at all of these cases, they all have a few similarities. They're brought forth by far left district attorneys and prosecutors, but the timing is not coincidental. All of these people, Jack Smith, Fannie Willis, Alvin Bragg, have had years to prosecute President Trump if they really felt like he was truly a criminal. But guess what? They know that's not true. They are doing it to protect Joe Biden and remove President Trump's name off the ballot ahead of the next election because they know that Joe Biden did not beat him here in square of the ballot box. Did the president watch some of this today, Caroline? Did he watch any of this hearing? Our whole team watched this today along with the rest of the world. Yes, the president did share some of the most gasping moments on his Truth Social page. We'll continue to watch it. We'll continue to fight it. And we'll continue to make the case to the American people that this is a two tier system of justice. This is your tax dollars going towards prosecuting the former president who made your life better, secured our border, restored peace around this world, rebuilt the economy. But the thing is, Laura, the American people already know that. That's why when you saw President Trump's motorcade rolling through urban Atlantic to get his mug shot just a few months ago, you had Americans in minority, urban, impoverished communities on the streets yelling "free Trump" because they see this for what it is, the weaponization of our justice system. Caroline, there was a moment, yeah, there was a moment. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah, I got you. Hold on, hold on. There weren't all cheerleaders on the other networks, and this is kind of predictable, but I'll get your reaction on the other side. Watch. This is explosive. Fani Willis is defiant. She is confrontational. And frankly, she is persuasive this afternoon. She is a very irritated liver. The fact that she herself feels as though she is being called to task and on trial. Well, that's Laura Coates over at CNN. And that was after Fani Willis kind of played the victim at one point saying, you know, I'm not the one who's, I'm not the one who's really on trial. Let's watch that. Don't let the legal ears fool you. This is epic. This is monumental. If things are going in the direction we think Fani Willis lied to the court, it's game over for her. She will be disqualified if they had a relationship prior to when they represented to the court. It's a huge deal. Like I can't overstate it. Yeah, that's the MSNBC one you were talking about. But she was actually, you know, trying to play the victim at one point. And we'll play that a little bit later on. But do you think that works? And in this case, what if they disqualify her and, of course, her friend, Nathan Wade, off the scene, but they disqualify maybe her office and then try to restart this investigation? What is your what is President Trump's view of this in light of calls for the governor's office to step in and essentially start their own criminal investigation or special investigation of this office? Well, as President Trump has long said, this case should be dismissed, not just because of these allegations of misconduct that if proven true, if the court of law proves them true, and they certainly appear to be that should be dismissed on the merits of that, but also on the basis of the law. This case has no legal grounding. Our legal team has been fighting that since the very beginning. Legal experts on both sides of the aisle absolutely agree the president did nothing wrong. He abided by the United States Constitution. And if we can't question elections in this country, then we don't have a question. We don't have a country at all. And so we agree wholeheartedly as we have since the beginning that this case should be dismissed no matter who is prosecuting it. But Fannie Willis certainly isn't qualified to be doing that.

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-I'm Laura Ingraham, and this is the Ingraham Angle tonight. As always, thank you for joining us. Fanny lines blurred. That's the focus of tonight's angle. Today, over several hours in an Atlanta courtroom, we saw why allowing a county DA to bring charges against a former U.S. president is absurd and destructive. Now, Fanny Willis is a leftist who thought that this case would catapult her to political fame, maybe even the Senate or Governor's mansion, because it would be Fanny, the Trump slayer. She was so full of herself, she thought no one would notice when she hired her married boyfriend as her lead Trump investigator. Now, just to refresh everyone on the timeline here, on New Year's Day 2021, Ms. Willis started as Fulton County DA, and then the next month, about 40 days later or so, February 10th, she opens the criminal investigation into the Trump election interference claim. And then, months later, by November 1st, she hires her friend, Nathan Wade, as a very special prosecutor. And then the next day, he files for divorce from his wife. Now, of course, Willis and Wade didn't expect that his divorce proceeding would become an issue in the Trump case. But at today's hearing, Judge Scott McAfee was considering whether the affair between the two created a conflict of interest that should knock them both off the case. Today, Nathan Wade took the stand on the question of who paid for their pleasure trips. -Did you take a trip with Ms. Willis in 2023 to Belize? -I did. -Did you take a trip to California with Ms. Willis in 2023? -I did. -Did you pay for those trips on that credit card? -I used the credit card to book the travel, but understand -- -She paid your back cash. -Well, let me say this. Let's take the Belize trip, for example, since you started there. That was a birthday gift to me, so I paid nothing for that trip -- zero. -Okay. So the charges that are on your card, she gave you cash for? -She did. -Okay. -Cash. Now, we're supposed to believe that Fannie Willis was carrying around those large amounts of cash. Of course, cash is not traceable. Now, when the DA unexpectedly appeared on the stand today, she did address this, or tried to. -I know he initially paid for it. Did you pay him back? -For the cruise and for Aruba. Yeah, I gave him his money before we ever went on that trip. -You gave him cash before you ever went on the trip? -Mm-hmm. -Later in the afternoon, Trump attorney Steve Sadow revisited the cash question. -I'm asking you whether or not those payments would be reflected on credit card bills of yours. -So, there was about $500 that I think is reflected on a debit card. My recollection is I took about $400 in cash with me today. -$400 or $4,000? -$4,000. -$400 or $4,000? And she answered $4,000. Now, who carries around that kind of cash? Well, Fannie does. Again, very convenient because you need a paper trail, right, to show that Willis did repay Mr. Wade and that she wasn't getting a financial benefit from the lawyer that she hired to investigate Trump. -Did you keep track of this cash that you paid him at all? -What do you talk -- I don't understand. -Did you keep track? Did you keep a ledger? Did you keep track of it? -So, I've only given him cash, as I mentioned, three or four times. There's no ledger. This is friends handing money off to each other. Of course, just friends handing money off to each other. This is ridiculous, just like the idea that Ms. Willis didn't know her ethical obligations as the county DA. -Did you disclose your relationship to anybody at Fulton County? -No, I don't think so. -Are you aware that Fulton County requires you to disclose any relationship with someone that you're doing business with? -I'm not aware. To me, that was stunning. Again, she's going after Trump for election interference. She doesn't even know her own ethical obligations. Now, but that was on top of many other stunning moments today where both witnesses appeared evasive and, at times, very argumentative, even belligerent, with glaring memory lapses about events that most people wouldn't easily forget. -How many times Mr. Wade visited you at the condo between the time you moved in and prior to November 1 of 2020? -I don't think often, but I don't want to speculate. -Can we say more than 5, more than 10? -Let's say more than 10, but I'm not sure that that's even accurate. -What about any other prosecutor that's involved in the prosecution of this case? -I don't think any of them have. -Yeah, because a personal residence is not a typical venue for official meetings between government lawyers. -I'm asking you whether or not prior to November 1 of 2021, there was a romantic relationship with Mr. Wade. That's very simple. It's either a yes or no. -I don't consider my relationship with him to be romantic before that. I'm not a handholder. -You didn't see the need, if I understand, to tell any of the people on the prosecution team when you had established a romantic relationship with Mr. Wade, that the lead prosecutor, that is the man that was basically giving orders to others, was dating or having a romantic relationship with you. -From at least 2020, me and Mr. Wade were friends. We were friends. We hung out. In November of 2021, I hired him. I do not consider our relationship to have become romantic until early of 2022. -The romantic relationship ended before the indictment was returned, yes or no? -To a man, yes. -To a man, yes. To you, no? -To a man, yes. What? Now, women across America are laughing because every woman I've ever met remembers vividly when a relationship starts. She said, "Well, it started between February and sometime in April." Bizarre. Now, of course, this all flies in the face of earlier testimony of a friend of Ms. Willis who was questioned about when this Willis-Wade relationship began. -Okay. So, you know that their relationship, their personal relationship, began shortly after this municipal court conference? -Yes. -And do you understand it, that their relationship began in 2019 and continued until the last time you spoke with her? -Yes. -What motive would her friend have to lie about Ms. Willis's relationship with the prosecutor? The prosecutor, of course, that she hired to go after Trump. It's unclear what motive she would have. But what is clear is that when Fanny gets in trouble, Fanny plays the victim. She stayed away, for the most part, from the race card today, except for a few moments like this. -Did you have contacts with Mr. Wade in 2020? -Very limited contact because Mr. Wade had a form of cancer that makes your allegations somewhat ridiculous. I'm not going to emasculate a black man. Did you understand that? -What? -Again, her first instinct is to deflect and then try to engender some type of, in this case, racial sympathy. There were lots of "poor me" moments. -So, let's be clear because you've lied in this. Let me tell you which one you lied in right here. I think you lied right here. No, no, no, no, no. This is the truth, Judge. It is a lie. It is a lie. Turned 50 in 2021. That's probably one of the worst birthdays I've ever had. -I ask you who knew? Answer and then explain this to us. -I am very private. It's like a woman doesn't have the right to keep her private life private. I don't need anybody to foot my bills. The only man who's ever foot my bills completely is my daddy. -Look, as wild as today's testimony was, and I was riveted by it long before we knew even who Nathan Wade was, it was obvious that the election interference case brought by this Fulton County DA was tainted. By charging Trump and 17 associates under a state racketeering statute, Willis showed us who she really was, a rogue prosecutor on a political mission to disqualify the GOP's leading candidate from the 2024 campaign. Now, even never-Trump legal experts have thrown water on Willis's case, questioning Trump's judgment. Okay, that's one thing, but portraying him with this state RICO statute as some type of mafia crime boss whose enterprise was subverting democracy, that is quite another. The Willis investigation was a political vendetta, and it was a travesty from the get-go. There are plenty of low-life radicals across the country who want Trump off the political scene, but they shouldn't have the power to prosecute and be paid by state taxpayers or have any power to interfere with the 2024 presidential election because that's election interference, and that's the angle.

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