Ed Morrissey

To be clear, the $650,000 figure represents two years of billing, not one. But that still leaves Wade's compensation at almost twice the amount paid in salary to in-house assistant DAs. Even considering non-cash benefits paid to in-house prosecutors, it's costing Fulton County taxpayers a lot more money to have Wade prosecuting the case rather than Fani Willis or one of her ADAs.

That expense might be justifiable if Wade was an expert in prosecuting RICO cases or complex felony indictments. However, Wade not only hasn't even prosecuted a RICO case, he's never been involved in a felony case at all before Georgia v Trump et al. That's plenty of reason to suspect that Willis set this up to benefit herself and her sexual partner at the expense of Fulton County taxpayers.