I find the transcript of the interview of deposed Fani Willis prosecutor and loverboy Nathan Wade many things: damning, outrageous, disgusting, shocking. Mostly I find it to be more evidence that I have wasted the last 25 years trying to make the legal profession more ethical. This guy, a “prominent and respected Atlanta lawyer,” not only doesn’t know what ethics is, he’s infuriatingly smug about his ignorance.

These are the people Democrats have placed in charge of “saving democracy” by using the criminal laws to keep Donald Trump from delivering condign justice to the Biden presidency, as in crushing, unequivocal defeat.

On Sunday’s “World News Tonight” and Monday’s “Good Morning America” ABC revealed two segments (here and here) from an “exclusive” interview with former Fulton County, Georgia special prosecutor Nathan Wade. He was, you’ll recall, forced to withdraw from the lucrative gig gifted to him by his girlfriend Fani Willis by the judge in the case, Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump for “election interference.”

If there are more segments, I think I’ll pass: cleaning up the serial head explosions caused by what I’ve seen already is more than enough for me. Nothing in them could change my mind about Wade (or Willis) at this point. He’s not just an unethical lawyer.He’s a fick. And an asshole.

I’ll just repeat some of the more glaring statements so you get the idea:

• Asked how he could endanger a high profile prosecution by letting an illicit romance pollute the prosecution: “You don’t plan to develop feelings. You don’t plan to fall in love. You don’t plan to  have some relationship in the workplace that we  you don’t set out to do that and those things develop organically. They develop over  over time. And the  the minute we had that sobering moment, we discontinued it.”

I see: he’s 13 years old, then….just so darned romantic or horny that he couldn’t help himself, even though this was exactly the opposite of professional behavior.

• Asked why he and Fani didn’t just put aside their “feelings” until the prosecution was over: “When you are in the middle of it, these feelings are developing, and you get to a point to where the feelings are are so strong that, you know, you start to want to do things that really are none of the public’s concern.”

To begin with,  the ABC interviewer Lindsey Davis is perpetuating the couple’s lie that that they were not romantically involved before he was hired for the case. Then we get this…

..and the absurd statement that unprofessional and conflicted conduct by attorneys prosecuting a candidate for President of the United States is “none of the public’s concern.”

This guy is beyond belief.

• “Workplace romances are as American as apple pie. It happens to everyone. But it happened to the two of us.”

Everybody does it! Except that vertical workplace romances that endanger state prosecutions are not common occurrences, because ethical lawyers don’t allow them to get started by exercising restraint and professionalism. They don’t “happen” like space ice falling through the ceiling. The participants make them happen. Fani Willis, his huggy-bear, had declared while campaigning that her office strictly forbade such affairs, because they constitute unethical workplace conduct. That’s the policy in most DA offices.

• “I want to continue to protect the integrity of this prosecution. I don’t want to say or do anything that would jeopardize this case.”

Hahahahaha! He’s already destroyed any claim this prosecution has to integrity! Is he that stupid, or does he just think everyone else is?

• Asked how he could have acted as he did when he knew this was such a high profile case that would put everyone involved “under a microscope”: “I did not realize that my life would be in danger. The microscope — I don’t have a problem with. The worst that you could find was the fact that I had a relationship with someone or that I happened to be going through a divorce, that’s okay. I had nothing  to hide.”

So why did he try to hide it all? Wade plays the “I’m the victim” card with the obligatory “death threats” claim. No, it wasn’t “someone” he had a relationship with, it was his boss and the district attorney bringing the charges against Donald Trump.

• “While I will concede…that the relationship did not happen in ideal timing, I don’t think that anything that occurred during the course of the relationship should cause question as it would relate to the efficiency of the indictment, as it would relate to evidence that was uncovered and and may or may not be presented at trial.”

Straw man, or men. Those aren’t the concerns. The conflict of interest creates the appearance of impropriety by raising valid questions about the independent judgment of the prosecutors. The DA has motivation to want to keep the prosecution going even if she would have otherwise concluded that her case could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt because her paramour is profiting from the case, and she is as well, though him. “Not ideal timing.” Not ideal timing!

Ya think, jackass?