Better in their words…

More terrible news for DA Willis; new myocarditis study; Toby Keith’s jab status confirmed; NYT piles on Biden brain damage, or does it?; long covid targets trans folks; DeSantis science panel; more.

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🔥 There was more bad news for Fulton County DA Fani Willis this week, maybe the worst yet, and hers is quickly becoming a cautionary tale about how if you’re not careful, and you’re trying to cover something up, you can stupidly let a minor problem metastasize into a fatal self-inflicted injury. ABC News ran the story Friday headlined, “Trump co-defendant accuses DA Fani Willis of falsehoods in admission of ‘personal relationship’.”

Michael Roman, one of President Trump’s co-defendants in Fani Willis’s Fulton County ‘election interference’ prosecution, first filed the motion to disqualify the amorous DA that started the whole ball rolling. Roman alleged that DA Willis hired Nathan Wade, her unqualified lover, to work on the Trump case, overpaid him more than other, more qualified lawyers on the case, and directly benefitted financially from the arrangement, as well as indirectly benefitting by enriching her paramour at the County’s expense.

Last week, the DA responded with a ghostwritten 175-page response denying most of the claims, but — critically — Fani admitted having an affair with special prosecutor Wade but it started after she hired him.

In other words, Fani denied hiring anybody she was sleeping with. Instead, she claimed that, at the time Wade was hired, the pair were only professionally acquainted.

Wade was the best man to do a dirty job.

Not only that, but the DA’s 175-page response included as an exhibit an affidavit from Nathan Wade that I instantly noticed as greatly significant and extremely risky. Wade’s affidavit supported Fani’s claims by similarly denying he was having any kind of sexual relationship with Fani at the time he signed the lucrative contract to work for Fulton County on the Trump case (although he divorced his wife the very next day).

This may be obvious, but an affidavit is a witness statement made under oath. It has the same seriousness and effect as sworn court testimony.

Then on Friday, Mr. Roman filed his own 122-page reply to Fani’s 175-page response. In Roman’s reply, he said he’s got a witness who will testify at the next week’s evidentiary hearing that Willis and Wade’s romantic relationship started before Wade was hired — contradicting Wade’s affidavit and Willis’s allegations that they fell in love afterwards.

This fact about the timing of the affair is critical to the DA’s defense. If she was not sleeping with Wade when she hired him, a lot of the case against her falls apart, and she doesn’t look like as much of a homewrecker. But if a credible witness convinces the judge that Wade was, in fact, buttering Fani’s biscuit when he took the high-paid Trump gig, all Hades will break loose.

Even more than normal people, lawyers are not allowed to lie under oath. Some of the most serious perjury punishments under the law are reserved for lawyers who perjure themselves. Don’t laugh, but lying at all is a serious problem for lawyers, especially if the lie is made to the court. If the judge decides that Fani lied in her motion, and that Wade lied under oath on his affidavit, none of the rest matters.

Forget about the cruises, Wade’s inexperience, or the million dollars he ‘earned’ for his ‘services.’ The lies in the affidavit and the motion will sink the S.S. Fani Willis, glub, glub, glub.

There are tough measures for lying lawyers. A lawyer faces five years in prison for knowingly filing anything false in a federal case. Attorneys are routinely disbarred for lying under oath. One attorney I knew — a good man, and a lawyer in good standing, well regarded in the community — stretched a little on a school zone application form stating where “he lived” as the former marital home. He was in the midst of an ugly divorce and wanted to keep the kids in their same school. His ex-wife turned the form in to the Bar. Unfortunately for the lawyer husband, the school zone form included a little statement that it was signed “under penalty of perjury” .

The short version is that, after a year-long investigation and trial, he settled the case with the Bar by quitting his job and agreeing to accept discipline. The good news was he got to keep his law license.  Part of the reason for the deal was the Bar found he lacked wrongful intent, it was never used in court, and nobody was harmed.

But if Nathan Wade lied on his affidavit submitted to the Court, he’ll be disbarred. Period. It’s super high stakes for him, and it’s not something that can recede into the murky mists of ambiguity. It’s binary. Either Wade was or wasn’t sleeping with Willis at the time. And apparently there are people around who knew about it. (Not to mention Wade’s disgruntled ex-wife, who has access to his bank records and might have something to say.)

If Fani Willis lied to the Court in her 175-page response — even if it wasn’t technically under oath — she would almost certainly be removed as District Attorney, at minimum.

In other words, DA Willis and lover-boy Wade have managed to make a simple dispute over whether they should be allowed to work on the Trump case into a suicidal cage match where losing means professional death. It’s hard to fathom. Wade never should have included that statement in his affidavit. He probably shouldn’t have sworn an affidavit at all. One suspects that Mr. Wade’s inexperience with RICO actions also extends to high-stakes battles like the one in which he’s currently embroiled, where he’’s up against some of the best legal minds in the country who are paying extremely close attention.

Whatever Nathan might have gotten away with in front of a distracted, overworked county judge will not work this time.

I’ve predicted there’s no saving the Georgia Trump prosecution at this point, but the prediction seems even more safe now. Prepare for fireworks at next week’s hearing. Unless DA Willis resigns first, thus mooting any need for the hearing, which she would do … if she were smart. But, you know.

💉 The Egyptian Heart Journal published a new study last week titled, “Commentary: raised c-troponin levels as a sign of myocardial injury after COVID-19 vaccination in healthy individuals are worrying.”

The study specifically debunked a prior study that, astonishingly, found Moderna vaccines lowered background pandemic rates of myocarditis (they claimed to find rates lowered in more highly-vaccinated populations). Using statistical analysis, the first study’s researchers concluded that the viruscauses more myocarditis than Moderna.

Uh huh.

Last week’s researchers double checked. They compared rates of heart damage, as measured by troponin levels, between vaccinated and unvaccinated but infected people, in both hospitalized and non-hospitalized persons, and found the exact opposite from the pro-vaccine study. Shocker. Their conclusion didn’t beat around the bush:

The claim that the extent of myocardial injury after COVID-19 infection would be higher than after vaccination is not supported by empirical evidence and therefore wrong.

Not only that, but the authors of this current study pinpointed the error in the prior study’s statistical analysis, which they generously called a “logic error.” I say they were generous because I would have assumed that the previous authors knew exactly what they were doing, lied, didn’t make any mistakes, logical or otherwise, and probably had a strong incentive to do it.

But that’s just me. Call me suspicious.

💉 When I reported last week on the tragic death from cancer of country singer Toby Keith, I said (accurately) that we couldn’t determine his vaccine status. Well, online sleuths have found the evidence that Toby received at least one shot in January 2021, as part of his Toby Keith Foundation. The reason we didn’t know is because the Foundation deleted the Instagram post right after he died. For some reason.

Under the law, evidence of an intent to conceal a fact is also evidence of consciousness of guilt.

Unfortunately, we cannot assume our opponents are acting in good faith. They are clearly not trying to find any answers. They are trying to cover things up.

🔥 Narrative alert! The New York Times ran a full board editorial yesterday, with this deliberately misleading headline:

Corporate Media is cooking up a Biden cover story. They are not reallycovering the real issue of Biden’s failing wits. They are instead attempting to shift focus to Biden’s age rather than his rapidly worsening mental incompetence. Media apparently thinks we are more accepting of an oldPresident than one who does not know where he is, what year it is, or sometimes thinks Kamala Harris is the President.

It’s not the Challenges of an Aging President. It’s the Challenges of a President with Dementia.

In fairness, the Times’ Editorial Board dipped an inky toe into the core competency issue:

Mr. Biden’s performance at his news conference on Thursday night was intended to assure the public that his memory is fine and argue that Mr. Hur was out of line; instead, the president raised more questions about his cognitive sharpness and temperament, as he delivered emotional and snappish retorts in a moment when people were looking for steady, even and capable responses to fair questions about his fitness.

His assurances, in other words, didn’t work. He must do better — the stakes in this presidential election are too high for Mr. Biden to hope that he can skate through a campaign with the help of teleprompters and aides and somehow defeat as manifestly unfit an opponent as Donald Trump, who has a very real chance of retaking the White House.

The combination of Mr. Biden’s age and his absence from the public stage has eroded the public’s confidence. He looks as if he is hiding, or worse, being hidden. For the second year in a row, Mr. Biden has even refused to do an interview before the Super Bowl, a practice that allowed presidents to speak to Americans informally before the country’s largest sporting event of the year, unpersuasively citing a desire to give the public a break from politics.

In truth, media was more willing to cover Biden’s faulty mental performance this week than anyone expected. Some speculate it was to shove Tucker’s Putin interview out of the news. Some think Team Biden has lost the media, and they are trying to push him out of the 2024 campaign. Others, including me, think the democrats don’t know what to do and it shows on the outside as just as incoherent as Joe Biden’s ramblings.

📈 An 2023 article made the rounds again this week since it offers some critical information that we all need to know about. According to USA Facts, citing Census Bureau data, in 2023 transgender people reported the highest rates of long covid, by a lot:

Forty-six percent – almost half! — of all surveyed transgender people reported they had long covid. The lowest group of reported long covid rates were from straight guys. But wait, it gets worse. Transgender people also reported the highest rate of long covid with severe symptoms (42%).

In other words, almost half of trans people experience severe long covid.

Apparently, this awful fact has been known for some time. The USA Facts article reported that “the Department of Health and Human Services stated in November 2022 that long COVID is more prevalent in trans and bisexual people as a result of their challenges with accessing health care and stigma surrounding their gender or sexuality.”

You see what’s going on here, don’t you?

That’s right. I hate to say this but long covid is transphobic. Scientists might not know what long covid is, there might not even be any test for it, but it has become painfully clear that long covid hates trans people. Worse, since long covid works for itself, trans activists can’t get it fired.

Don’t miss the great news buried in this 2023 story, like a sunken vaccine treasure ship. Apparently there’s a cure for long covid! Since HHS concluded that trans people have more long covid due to being unable to get medical care because of stigma, that means that doctors — transphobic though they are — are curing everybody else. They just refuse to treat trans people or something.

It’s reassuring, isn’t it, to see how smart our HHS bureaucrats must be, to detect this hidden cure. Best and brightest! I’m so glad they are in charge of our mammoth public health agen…  wait.

Just a second. Can that be right? Trans people don’t have challenges accessing health care. They see tons of doctors. They have endocrinologists, surgeons, hormone therapists, shrinks, and who knows what else. In fact, I would guess that in the prior 12 months, trans people “accessed health care” at multiples of visits by straight white guys.

As a straight white guy, I can assure you that our group is notorious for avoiding health care. I don’t know about being transphobic, but I’m definitelydoctor-phobic. I’m not saying I hate doctors or anything, I just feel better when they’re not around.

People probably feel the exact same way about lawyers.

So … how can HHS’s “denied access” theory possibly add up?  It almost seems like the truth is the opposite; that people are more likely to report having long covid the more they access healthcare. Since trans people access the most health care (if you can call it that), they report the highest levels of the dreadful disease, or chronic syndrome, or whatever it is.

It’s definitely not all in trans peoples’ heads. How dare you.

Finally, if I believed these census numbers at all, I might be concerned that a full fifth of even the smallest demographic group is reporting long covid. And who thought to measure long covid by gender identity in the first place?

🔥 Yesterday, Governor DeSantis hosted one of his famous scientific roundtables, this time to discuss the Covid Grand Jury’s First Interim Report. The panel included expert scientists like Dr. Joseph Fraiman, Dr. Steven Templeton, Dr. Brett Weinstein, Dr. Martin Kulldorf, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

There’s a ton of good stuff in the program, which runs just over an hour (1:11:00). The scientists focused more than anything on the failures of the big, federal health agencies. For flavor, Dr. Bhattacharya began his comments criticizing the agencies, who ignored the Grand Jury’s information requests, and praising the report (lightly edited):

It is vital we have a conversation over the errors made during the pandemic… we need to establish a principle that we never lock down again. The Report highlights on the topic of masks how fundamentally agencies like the CDC ignored basic science, used their power to silence disagreeing scientists, and submerged reliance on high-quality evidence.

We need to figure out ways that these agencies that engaged in this sort of pseudo-scientific thinking are reformed. The Report does a good job of highlighting and starting that conversation.

Back in the day, whenever Governor DeSantis held one of these conferences, it was right before he was about to take some controversial action. For example, I think his very first online scientific panel was held right before he canceled lockdowns. The Governor did the same thing just before he issued executive orders banning mask mandates.

The goal of these panels was to delete media’s ability to complain that Governor DeSantis wasn’t “following the science.” After all, he’d just asked a bunch of scientists for advice. The other side, the pro-masking, pro-lockdowners, were not holding similar panels online with public officials. Had they done so, we could have held a debate.

I’m tempted to hope the Governor is about to do something big, a move that this panel, which heavily criticized the federal health agencies, was helping establish a foundation for. But it could also be the Governor was just defending the Grand Jury’s initial report from criticisms that it didn’t go far enough.

If nothing else, this panel highlighted the Jurors’ conclusions and moved the covid football a little bit further downfield toward the end zone of accountability. We’ll be waiting to find out what this week brings.

Enjoy the Super Bowl (if that’s your thing) and otherwise have a very Blessed Sunday. Swivel on back again tomorrow morning to kick off another wonderful week of Coffee & Covid.

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