Former President Trump’s campaign targeted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis following her indictment on Monday evening, claiming that her family has a strong propensity for animosity, is “drenched in hatred,” and highlighting her father’s affiliation with the Black Panther Party.
Following the issuance of charges, the Trump campaign communicated via email with its supporters regarding the Georgia prosecutor. The communication included extracts from a 2021 Time Magazine article and information from the Fulton County administration’s official website.
The campaign statement asserts that Willis hails from a “family steeped in hate” and identifies her as the daughter of a former Black Panther”, afterward citing the Time Magazine article as supporting evidence.
According to the cited Time article, “The daughter of a former Black Panther who recently retired as a criminal defense lawyer, the Inglewood, Calif.-born Willis would go along when her father went to court on Saturday mornings.”
“The judge who oversaw the Saturday courtroom, an older white man, was, according to Willis, known to be mean. But each week, he had Willis, too young to stay home alone or to hear the details her father needed to discuss with clients, sit next to him on the elevated dais, the two whispering back and forth,” Time Magazine continued. “One day, Willis’ father asked her what on earth they talked about.”
The email also included a citation from the official website of the Fulton County Government in which Willis mentioned her father’s past affiliation with the Black Panthers.
According to the government website, “Fani has a seemingly proud family background as an African-American woman. As what can now be considered a conscious foreshadowing to her future endeavors, she describes her Swahili name’s intended meaning, saying: ‘My name is actually Fani (fah-nee), Taifa is my middle name, and my last name is Willis. So, my father was a Black Panther, so he was very Afrocentric… my name is Swahili. Fani actually means ‘prosperous,’ and Taifa means ‘people.’”
According to an article published by South Atlanta Magazine in October 2022, Willis stated that her father, who later pursued legal education, had been arrested so frequently that he was unable to provide an accurate count.
“He told me when he was taking the bar that was one of the questions they asked is that ‘have you ever been arrested before?’ He said, ‘Yeah, but I don’t, you know, want to lie on this application,’” Willis informed the magazine. “‘So, I’ll just tell you these are the states, you’ll have to research them.’”
In other Georgia/Trump legal news, Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat stated that a mugshot of former President Trump will be taken.
“First and foremost, we will follow our own policies and procedures. We simply don’t … give any leniency just because of your status. Ultimately, there may be a court order that his lawyers may ask for, there may be some alternate … processes around it, but we’ll stay focused on our policies and procedures. And if a mugshot is warranted, we’ll follow that policy and procedure as well,” according to Axios.
“And so again, we treat everybody equally,” he asserted. “We’ve certainly learned from both New York as well as Miami. So, we’ve got a lot of different agencies involved.”
A brief search on the website “Open Secrets,” which details which organizations and individuals donate to which politicians, etc., reveals that Sheriff Labat supports Democratic candidates. Labat is also black, like Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is presumably anti-white racist. While campaigning for her elected position as district attorney, DA Willis advocated for Trump’s indictment. This week, she was ecstatic and chuckling when she announced the indictment.
This week, Trump’s campaign revealed that Willis is the daughter of a former Black Panther and claimed that she hails from a “family steeped in hate.”
The Trump camp blasted out pushback against Fulton DA Fani Willis
It includes a section titled “A Family Steeped In Hate” highlighting that her father was a former Black Panther (the anecdotes included are her attending court w/ her dad & her explaining the meaning of her name) pic.twitter.com/4RguNh0gIA
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) August 15, 2023
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