Courtroom Soap Opera: Hostile Witness Dissembles On The Stand

I’m pretty sure two New York Times writers did not watch the same nonsensical court testimony from Georgia that I watched yesterday.

What I saw was a recalcitrant witness who seemed to be suffering from a bout of amnesia so severe that he should have been wheeled out of the courtroom and sent immediately to a senior citizen  “memory center.”

Terrence Bradley’s  evasive testimony could prove devastating to Fulton County DA Fani Willis and her boyfriend/colleague Nathan Wade. Bradley, a former law partner and divorce lawyer for Wade, was clearly trying to mollify his old friend and Wade’s lover while tap-dancing around a multitude of text messages he had exchanged with Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer for one of Donald Trump‘s co-defendants in the Fulton County Rico case.

Frankly, Bradley also appeared frightened.

This was one of my favorite parts of yesterday’s soap opera:

“As a normal course of relationships with your friends, do you pass on lies about your friends?” (Attorney Richard) Rice asked. “Is that something you normally do, Mr. Bradley? Do you tell lies about your friends?”

“Have I told lies about my friends?” Bradley replied. “I could have, I don’t know.”

Seriously? The only correct answer is, “No, I’m not a liar.” But of course, Bradley couldn’t say that.

When shown text messages that he sent to attorney Merchant assuring her that the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade “absolutely” began in 2019, Terrence Bradley claimed he was merely “speculating” at the time.

Unbelievable.

Yet Tuesday’s online story in The New York Times described Bradley’s testimony this way:

“In a potential setback to former President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, a key witness testified on Tuesday that he had no knowledge of when a romantic relationship began between the two prosecutors leading the case.”

Any wonder the legacy media is circling the drain?