"When I took out a large amount of money during my first campaign"???? I notice she didn't say she took out a large amount of money FROM her first campaign.
This is called "Open mouth, insert foot"
MERCHANT: So my question was, where did that cash originally come from? If it hadn't come out of the bank.
WILLIS: Cash is fungible. It have cash for years in my house. So for me to tell you the source of when it comes from, when you go to Publix then you buy something, you have $50, you throw it in there. It's been my whole life.
When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that. Like, to tell you, I just have cash in my house. I don't have as much today as I would normally have, but I'm building back up now. So you just put money in. It's a very good practice. I would advise it to all women.
MERCHANT: So you can't identify when you came into this cash or where the cash came from?
WILLIS: I didn't say I couldn't identify it. Nobody gives me anything. I am sure that the source of the money is always the word sweat and tears of me.
What you asked me for is, when did the money go in there? What I am trying to tell you is -- so I got divorced in 2005 from my husband.
MERCHANT: And --
WILLIS: No, no, no, no. It's important. You said, where did the money come from, and I need to tell you where the money came from.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She just answered your question.
WILLIS: And so for many, many years, I have kept money in my house. That money in my worst days has probably only been $500 or $1,000. At my best days, I probably had $15,000 in my house I keep cash.
At all times, there's going to be cash in my house. Or wherever I'm laying my head.
MERCHANT: The money that you paid, Mr. Wade, the cash in October of 2022, you do not know where that money came from.
WILLIS: I do know where it came from. It came from my sweat and tears.
MERCHANT: You know which job it came from. Did it come from Fulton County or did it come from a private job?
WILLIS: It came from, I'm not a -- what are you talking about? So it could have come from a private job because before I was DA, I was in private practice. So I earned money during that time period, that's probably in there.
MERCHANT: You don't know where it came from.
WILLIS: What do you mean I don't know where it came from? I absolutely didn't.
SCOTT MCAFEE, JUDGE, FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA SUPERIOR COURT: I understand the situation. We can move on.
MERCHANT: OK. Thanks. Same with the Aruba. You don't know where that cash came from either, right?
WILLIS: Ma'am, you are mischaracterizing my testimony greatly. I'm not going to allow you to mischaracterize my testimony. I know that I keep money in my house. The amounts of money I gave Mr. Wade, it was never that serious. I don't think I've ever handed him more than $2,500 in a reimbursement.
So we're not talking about $20,000 in cash. I don't have $20,000 in cash right now. Most I ever gave him -- I know I gave him $2,500 when we went to Belize because we went to one hotel and then we went to a second hotel. That $2,500, I actually gave him while we were still in Belize.
I know that the Aruba trip, the one that you described with his mom, I think I gave him about $2,000 for that trip for like total.