Ashleigh Merchant
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I know. It was unbelievable. And I'm not tech savvy, so I didn't really know how to turn it over to them. But I'm like, I have nothing to hide here. You can look through that. I wish that they had had the same ability to be transparent. We still haven't seen behind the curtain. There's still a lot of things that we don't know the answers to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
You know, but your point where you said that basically this hatred for Donald Trump, you know, I've gotten I've recently gotten some more open records, which I've just been going through the last couple of days. And the day that Fannie Willis hired Nathan Wade, she also purchased a ton of books.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
all of the books that people had written about Donald Trump and about the 2020 election for her and her team. So, you know, you can just see before they even had these charges, they're reading books to try and figure out this case, trying to figure out how to make the case. And there are books written about hatred, essentially, for Donald Trump and his entire presidency.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So, you know, I think that just really shows the motive here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
She bailed when that guy took a stand and clearly lied. Nobody has seen her again. So, and Anna is a well-respected lawyer. So I sort of reading tea leaves there, just think that she did what we would call a quiet withdrawal, you know, and just no longer worked on the case has not appeared since hasn't filed another writing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So I'm kind of thinking that that means that she knew something was wrong and she didn't want to be involved in it. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
You know, I don't know if I'm surprised or not. I mean, when they canceled the oral arguments,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I sort of was reading tea leaves and thinking well that's going to go well for us because normally they don't cancel oral arguments if they're going to rule against us so I thought that was probably a good thing um but you know it's one of those things you get an email with the docket notice saying you know with the opinion and you have no idea and you open it I mean it's just like Christmas when you know you didn't know Christmas was actually coming today um it's like
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
The presence appeared under the tree and you didn't even know there was a tree that was happening today. So it's kind of surreal. You know, the impact of it, I don't think has quite hit me yet, but I'm very excited.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Yeah, definitely. So the Court of Appeals has said that they agreed with us that there was an appearance of impropriety and it was enough that Fannie Willis should not be on the case. So she and all of her deputies were disqualified. And so what that means practically is the case will be assigned to what's called PAC. It's the Prosecuting Attorneys Council.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And they'll be the ones that will review it. And I've said from day one, if we had an independent prosecutor, someone who wasn't financially or politically interested in the outcome of this case, it would never see the light of the day. It's not a case that would ever be brought. I mean, there's, you know, hardly probable cause. You could indict just about anything.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So you could find probable cause in just about anything. But I think if you had a neutral prosecutor looking at it, they're going to say, no way, this is ridiculous. We have other cases. This case is not, it doesn't rise to the level of a crime. You know, and we just don't think that this is where we should be prosecuting cases.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So I think that it will essentially die on the vine once it goes to an independent prosecutor. I don't think Fannie Willis is going to go away quietly, though. I've already got a notice of intent, just got it on email where she plans on appealing to the Supreme Court. So the question will be whether or not they even want to want to touch it. You know, it's a good opinion.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So I don't think the Supreme Court is going to have any interest in dabbling in this, but we'll see.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Georgia Supreme Court.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I don't think I'll be holding my breath for that. And I don't know that I've ever been called a liar so many times. And I just kept thinking, what is it that you think I'm lying about? Because just about everything that I've alleged has turned out to be true. And if something wasn't, it wasn't not true. We fought over the term cohabitate. We fought over the term whether or not you cohabitated.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And that was one of her big things saying, oh, I lied because they didn't live together. And I was using the Georgia definition of cohabitation that we have in the criminal code. If you spend the night together in someone's bed at their house, that's considered cohabitation under Georgia law. So, you know, that was the big, oh, you're lying because we didn't live together.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Well, you know, you cohabitate it. And so, you know, I think we were just playing with words at that point. But no, I certainly am not going to be holding my breath for an apology anytime soon. But I can't believe how many times I've been called a liar in the year 2024. I sort of feel like I should try and come up with a New Year's resolution having to do with that. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I did. I mean, I thought that it was something that was large enough and something that was deep enough that it could effectively end it. But I knew that it would take some really strong judges to give us, you know, every step we had to win. We had to win a hearing. That was the first one, you know?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So when we filed it, and it's crazy because this time last year, I was writing the motion, you know, getting ready. I mean, I spent the holidays preparing it and, you know, editing it with my law partner, with my husband, and getting it ready to be filed in early January. And so, you know, with Terrence Bradley. Yeah. Talking to Terrence Bradley. Exactly. Talking to Terrence Bradley.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
You know, he was away for the holidays. And I remember waiting until he got back from the holidays to sort of verify all the facts with him. But, you know, so it was a year ago thinking about what's going to happen with this. And I knew that we were going to have to fight. So we're going to have to take every step of the way. We're going to have another fight.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
we had to make sure that the judge gave us a hearing because we needed that hearing, you know, and then we needed the judge to issue strong, a strong order. And even though judge McAfee didn't rule with us, he issued a strong order and he made factual findings that were really strong. Um, you know, I'd hoped that funny Willis would do the right thing, but she dug in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Um, she did the expected thing, you know, knowing her, she dug in, but, um, So, you know, I knew that it had the potential to completely derail the case if we won it every step of the way. But I also knew that that was going to be a really long haul. And I knew that it was going to be something where they dug in a lot and fought. I mean, fought vehemently.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
You've seen how much they wanted to keep this case. But, you know, one thing I want to point out is the more they dug in, the more you could see that they were biased because these are government employees. If most of the time, if you say a judge is biased or you say a DA is biased, they say, OK, send it to someone else.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
You know, I mean, that's immediately when you file a motion to recuse someone or disqualify. Normally they're like, bye, because who wants more work when you're, you know, when you're a government salaried employee, you usually don't want extra work. So normally the normal response would be disqualify me, let someone else look at it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I feel so strongly about the facts of my case that if you had a neutral and detached prosecutor, they're going to come to the same conclusion. So I don't need to have a personal stake in this case. So when we saw her dig in and not do that, that said all we needed to know. That said, you definitely do have a personal stake in this case.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Yeah. So I got to call him this morning and, you know, getting to make a call like that is pretty exciting. I'm not going to lie. That's a pretty, that's a pretty special moment. And so we definitely had a special moment. We were, we were teared up over it and in shock, you know, and, and kudos to him because I couldn't do it without him having the fortitude to fight.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I mean, he was offered a misdemeanor reckless conduct plea. He was offered one of the first pleas in this case and he rejected it. So he could have taken a plea last September, be done with this. And he had the guts to And I mean, he had to authorize me doing this, you know, had to authorize that me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I mean, I have autonomy in my job, but I'm also not going to do something like this without my client's approval. And so, you know, I'm really proud of him for having the guts. Most people wouldn't have the ability to turn down a misdemeanor when they're faced with a RICO charge. And so, you know, I was proud of him and he was proud of me. So we had a special moment.