Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been facing challenges.
The last time we checked in on the Willis situation, the election case involving President Donald Trump was officially dismissed in November. This occurred after Willis had been removed from the case the previous year.
Willis was visibly unhappy as she faced pointed questioning from the committee on Wednesday, and it showed. Lawmakers zeroed in on how much Nathan Wade — the special prosecutor she handpicked while carrying on a personal relationship with him — had been paid, among other uncomfortable details. The hearing quickly devolved into a series of defensive outbursts and thinly veiled meltdowns as Willis struggled to explain away conduct that would have ended the career of almost anyone else.
Willis testified that she didn’t bother reviewing the invoices Wade submitted and felt perfectly comfortable allowing “him to bill 160 hours a week.” That’s more than four full-time jobs, for those keeping score at home.
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She went on to claim Wade was the first person in the office every day and took it upon himself to “correct” the behavior of other employees. Which raises an obvious question: why was a supposedly subordinate special prosecutor policing the office at all? Why would he need to?
It was at this point that she just lost it, firing back: “Why don’t you investigate how many times they called me the n word?” She then stated that she hadn’t gone over the invoices and struggled to provide a clear response regarding who had reviewed them.
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
Willis later tried to walk back the jaw-dropping claim, saying she meant 160 hours a month, not a week — a correction that only underscored how rattled she was under basic questioning. Sloppy testimony has a way of doing that. Reports indicate Wade ultimately pulled in roughly $700,000 for his work on the case during the time he was involved.
And just when it seemed she might regain her footing, Willis grew visibly irritated again when lawmakers pressed her on how deeply Wade was involved in meetings and decision-making. She expressed that they would need to show her what Wade had said about the situation. “I don’t really trust you,” she told the committee.
At another point, Willis became agitated again, accusing senators of “trying to intimidate me.”
? NOW: DA Fani Willis and her legal team just got HEATED while testifying before the Georgia Senate following her persecution of Donald Trump
"You gonna need to SHOW it to me. I don't really TRUST you!"
She's flailing. Brutal.pic.twitter.com/hVXmshs22u
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 17, 2025
?NEW: Fani Willis *COMES APART AT SEAMS* as she accuses GA State Senate Committee of "TRYING TO INTIMIDATE [HER]"?
"You think that you're going to intimidate me! You all have been trying to intimidate me for 5 years — which is why I have not been able to live in my house for 5… pic.twitter.com/ayPtVsbqUM
— Jason Cohen ?? (@JasonJournoDC) December 17, 2025
You think that you’re going to intimidate me! You all have been trying to intimidate me for five years, which is why I have not been able to live in my house for five years, because the n word has been written on my house!
Willis even took a gratuitous swipe at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), sneering that she wasn’t going to “quit in a month.” Greene may be leaving Congress in January, but Willis didn’t exactly ride off into the sunset herself — she was disqualified, and her case against Trump was dismissed. That’s a strange perch from which to lecture anyone else about staying power.
Things didn’t improve when lawmakers asked about contacts between members of her prosecution team and the Jan. 6 Committee. On that front, Willis suddenly became vague and evasive, offering little clarity when transparency was precisely what was being demanded:
Jan. 6 committee letter: Willis acknowledged a Dec. 17, 2021, letter (with her signature) seeking documents from the Jan. 6 committee; she said she recalled no nonpublic documents being provided and said she has never met Rep. [Bennie] Thompson [the J6 committee chair].
D.C. trip acknowledged, purpose vague: Willis confirmed Wade and staff traveled to Washington and said it was connected to “this investigation,” but she said she could not recall the purpose or who they spoke with.
All in all, Willis only managed to make herself look worse than before, and that’s saying something.
