(WND News Center)—Fani Willis, the local prosecutor in Fulton County, Ga., had no concerns about costs when she hired a paramour for some $700,000 and assembled organized crime claims against President Donald Trump and a long list of codefendants.
The defendants ended up spending some $17 million to protect themselves from her claims.
But suddenly it’s different for Willis, as a state law that provides the prosecuting attorney’s office pay the costs for defendants when the prosecutor in their case is removed for cause, as Willis was.
She is demanding that her office not be required to follow that law.
In fact, she’s openly defying it, as a document in Fulton County’s court system states her office “has no intention of allowing Fulton County taxpayers” to pay those legal costs, as the state law stipulates.
And, she complains, it’s an “absurd amount.”
She says her justification is that paying what the law requires could use up a “significant percentage (perhaps all)” of her annual budget.
The Washington Examiner explained the president is seeking about $6.2 million in attorney fees, and the other 18 defendants in Willis’ case spent another $11 million.
The publication outlined, “The fee demands stem from a Georgia law passed last year that allows criminal defendants to seek reimbursement for legal costs if the prosecuting district attorney is disqualified from the case. Willis was removed after courts found that her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created an ‘appearance of impropriety’ and exhibited an ‘odor of mendacity.’ The Georgia Supreme Court earlier declined to hear her appeal of that decision.”
Willis’ case ended up being dismissed entirely.
Her court submission claims, “The defendants are asking that the District Attorney’s budget and the taxpayers’ funds be handed over to the Trump Campaign and the Georgia Republican Party for expenses including luxury hotels and seafood lunches.”
She claims to be astonished at expenses like research, high-end travel, meals and more.
Willis’ original indictment focused on a January 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Willis claimed Trump asked Reaffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn his narrow loss in the state.
Joe Biden won the race by about 12,000 votes, and evidence obtained since that fight has confirmed that more than 300,000 ballots were counted for which there was no confirmation they were valid. Further, there were some 20,000 more absentee ballots counted than people who cast absentee ballots in the state.
WorldNetDaily had reported when Trump’s lawyers submitted their expenses to the count. The state law allows people whose prosecutors are disqualified to recover “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred.”
In fact, Willis had hired her paramour to be a special prosecutor against Trump, paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars and taking exotic trips with him. First, a judge ruled that the special prosecutor had to be removed from the case, then a ruling determined Willis and her entire office had to be removed because of her behavior. And the case was dismissed.
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lawyer in the case, in which Willis wildly claimed there was an organized crime conspiracy going on, said, “In accordance with Georgia law, President Trump has moved the Court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in his defense of the politically motivated, and now rightfully dismissed, case brought by disqualified DA Fani Willis.”
The total requested is $6,261,613,08 and a judge now will have to review that and make a determination.
Previously Willis battled the law, claiming she doesn’t want to follow it.
Another person charged in the case already had submitted a request for reimbursement and she filed a statement claiming the law raises concerns about separation of powers “by purporting to impose financial liability on a constitutional officer, twice elected by the citizens of Fulton County, for the lawful exercise of her core duties under the Georgia Constitution.”
The motion doesn’t explain how her constitutional core duties involve hiring a paramour at taxpayer expense to attack the president.
She’s also been grilled by state officials about her anti-Trump agenda and its results:
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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