Obama appointed judge fired over sex scandal

FOX Business contributor Katrina Campins broke down the mess of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's personal relationship with Nathan Wade on Jesse Watters Primetime.U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon dropped a motion on Friday to get Atlanta U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross tossed from a major election integrity case. Why? Because Ross admitted she went to a partisan Democrat fundraiser for Fani Willis, which is flat out illegal and screams she is anything but impartial.

But that is just the warm up for Ross's greatest hits album of judicial disgrace. 

Turns out that Ross, who is married, has been carrying on for years banging Atlanta deputy police chief Kelley Collier right there in her chambers during work hours. Staff overheard the sexual noises. When she got caught, she lied about it and then retaliated against the people who reported her.

This is textbook workplace sexual misconduct, lying, and obstruction of justice, folks. 

And what did the federal judiciary do about it? Gave her a freaking private reprimand. Yes, a private reprimand. That is the judicial equivalent of a participation trophy for being a sleazy embarassment. Ross should resign immediately or get impeached by Congress. She should also face federal criminal charges for lying to investigators.

The Atlanta Police Department has tons of cases in front of Ross's court. 

Collier, her regular courthouse hookup, is a nearly thirty year veteran who runs the Community Services Division and, oh yeah, he is also married. 

The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council actually said it was only by pure happenstance that Ross never got assigned any cases from that division while she was banging the deputy chief. Relying on luck to avoid a screaming conflict of interest does not make you ethical. It makes you lucky and gross. Nothing indicates she would have ended the affair if a case had landed on her desk. 

Ross is  married to DeKalb County Circuit Judge Brian Ross. I wonder how he's taking it.

This went on right under the noses of her law clerks, young lawyers who were supposed to look up to her as a role model as opposed to a "Fans Only" woman. One former clerk had to blow the whistle to disciplinary authorities. She turned her fancy judicial chambers into a cheap love shack for several years, from 2023 until 2025. 

When staff pushed back on her illegal behavior, she cursed them out. Retaliating against whistleblowers has zero place in the federal judiciary.

Ross, an Obama appointee, also showed up at the victory party for Fani Willis, the same legal train wreck who brought that ridiculous, politically motivated indictment against President Trump and nearly twenty other defendants in 2023. Courts eventually booted Willis after it came out she was sleeping with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. 

Judges are not supposed to attend these partisan Democrat love clusterfracks. Ethical canons exist for a reason.

Ross showed zero integrity when Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor confronted her. She flat out denied everything and called the allegations outrageous. She knew she was lying through her teeth. If a lawyer pulled that stunt in court, they would be disbarred and possibly prosecuted for contempt. But the Judicial Council went soft on Ross, kept the reprimand private, and refused to name her. That lack of transparency is garbage. The public has every right to know which judge is abusing her office, lying about it, retaliating, and trying to cover it up. 

She is a caught liar with no business on the federal bench. This fiasco is exactly why Congress needs to pass Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley's bill for an independent inspector general over the federal judiciary. These judges cannot police themselves, and for one in particular, don't even mention the word 'police,' it gets her all steamy hot.

Her eventual confession changes nothing. 

The council made her skip being chief judge of the Northern District and say sorry to the staff she screwed over. Big whoop. These are pathetic slaps on the wrist. As it stands, Ross keeps collecting that sweet lifetime federal paycheck and benefits. Other judges with half a spine have resigned over less. She should do the same. The Justice Department needs to prosecute her, and the House should impeach her.

Funny how Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff has been completely MIA on this. 

Ross sits on the bench in his home state. Her antics have humiliated the Northern District of Georgia, the whole state, and the federal judiciary. Ossoff, a full-blown coward, has not called for her resignation, has not demanded transparency, and has not said a single public word about why they shielded her from accountability. That silence is deliberate, and Georgians should remember it come election time. 

Ross is a complete disgrace to the judiciary. She should slink away with whatever dignity she has left and be replaced by someone who understands that judicial chambers are not a Motel 6 for afternoon delights that the whole staff has to hear. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ossoff ought to be leading the charge instead of playing hide and seek, should demand answers on why her name stayed secret. Most important, the Justice Department needs to open a criminal investigation into the false statements she made to Pryor and her obstruction of justice. The judiciary and the country deserve way better than Eleanor Ross.

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Trump says he's 'a very stable genius'

The left is busting their balloons criticizing President Trump's intellect and mental stability. They've all become certified psychologists with degrees in testing.

Trump never takes that without a comeback and lashed out at the critics on his favorite lashing out platform, Twitter.

7:19 a.m. -- "Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence."

7:27 a.m. -- ... Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star ...."

7:30 a.m. -- ....to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that.

He earlier tweeted to praise news that the nation's African-American unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest rate on record. Another tweet attacked ABC News reporter Brian Ross, who returned after a month suspension for screwing up a report on the president regarding what he said would be Michael Flynn's testimony about the Russian collusion situation.

6:49 a.m. -- "The African-American unemployment rate fell to 6.8%, the lowest rate in 45 years. I am so happy about this News! And, in the Washington Post (of all places), headline states, 'Trumps (sic) first year jobs numbers were very, very good.'"

Ross now works as an investigative reporter on long-term projects. He is off the Trump scene altogether.

6:57 a.m. -- "Brian Ross, the reporter who made the fraudulent live newscast about me that drove the Stock Market down 350 points (billions of dollars), was suspended for a month but is now back at ABC NEWS in a lower capacity. He is no longer allowed to report on Trump. Should have been fired!"

If everyone got fired that Trump thinks should be fired, that would definitely lead to smaller government, if any government at all.


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Mistake-prone ABC News reporter doesn't report in

He's nowhere to be found. ABC News' chief investigative (LOL--he investigates like Barack Obama leads) correspondent, Brian Ross, was scheduled to return to work Thursday after being suspended for a huge screwup regarding an "exclusive" report on President Trump and Russia.

Ross was put on a 4-week unpaid suspension after incorrectly reporting on live TV that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would be testifying that Trump ordered him to make contact with the Russians about foreign policy while he was still a candidate. The stock market fell over 300 points after the announcement, losing billions of dollars for American investors, and it raised the specter of Trump's impeachment.

Except that it didn't because it wasn't true.

ABC was forced to retract the report and ABC News President James Goldston said on a conference call that he'd never felt more "rage, disappointment and frustration" in his entire career, and that Ross would never cover Trump again. 

It isn't clear if the disappointment was in the incompetency of Ross or that Trump didn't contact the Russians concerning foreign policy . . . or both.

An ABC News spokesperson wouldn't comment as to whether Ross will ever be returning to ABC at all.

When Ross was suspended, Trump told a Florida crowd that Ross should be fired and that he will build a wall. 

"They took this fraudster from ABC," Trump said. "They suspended him for a month. They should have fired him for what he wrote. He drove the stock market down 350 points in minutes, which, by the way, tells you they really like me right? When you think of it, and you know what he cost people? And I said to everybody get yourself a lawyer and sue ABC News, sue them."

I don't think Trump should be telling companies what to do. Sure, Ross is a screwup, but it isn't the job of the president to get involved with all the minutiae in the world or "punch down" whenever he's attacked verbally. This is what drives conservatives crazy.

Ross tweeted that his job "is to hold people accountable," and noted "That's why I agree with being held accountable myself."

And if he didn't hold himself accountable? How would that have played out?

Ross has screwed up before and was never held accountable. In 2001 he incorrectly reported that Saddam Hussein's regime may have been responsible for anthrax attacks that terrorize the United States following 9/11. 

In 2006, he reported that then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert was a target of a federal corruption probe involving Jack Abramoff. But Hastert was never approached by prosecutors, proving Ross wrong again, and again, no apology.

Besides this latest flub, the one that comes almost as close is the where in 2012, Ross reported that Colorado theater shooter James Holmes may have had ties to the Tea Party movement.

"There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year," the fake news reporter reported on "Good Morning America." He went on, "Now, we don't know if this is the same Jim Holmes--but this is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado."

Really, what an ass.

He was called "America's Wrongest Reporter" by Gawker, a now-defunct website.

"When there's breaking news, especially about terrorism and national security, ABC News' Brian Ross is there," wrote John Cook on Gawker. "And under no circumstances should you listen to anything he says."

So let's hope he's gone for good.



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ABC's Brian Ross incredibly wrong again

ABC's Brian Ross, their chief investigative reporter (LOL) was labeled "America's Wrongest Reporter" by Gawker in 2012, saying that he was "breathtakingly reckless" after declaring that the Colorado movie theater shooter may have had Tea Party ties, based on Ross's discovery that someone on the Internet shared the name James Holmes with the shooter.

One can also imagine the connections he would have like to make with Sherlock and Oliver Wendell.

Now the idiot has caused the network to issue an embarrassing correction with his balderdash bombshell "exclusive" about Michael Flynn and President Trump, which caused Joy Behar to have uncontrollable titters during the special-ed show The View. 

ABC spokespeople were mum over whether Ross will be disciplined for yet another screwup, but since it was about President Trump, he may receive kudos for bringing a moment of joy to Behar and the gang.

Ross's report was delivered live to ABC stations during a "special report" on Friday. It claimed that Flynn would testify that Donald Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while he was still a candidate. If this was true, it could raise the issue of impeachment.

The Dow plummeted from the "news."

It wasn't until later in the day that ABC issued a "clarification" to the fake news report. They said Trump's alleged directive came DURING THE TRANSITION, AFTER HE HAD BEEN ELECTED president.

A yooge distinction!

After Ross screwed up on Friday morning, he appeared on "World News Tonight" to correct himself.

"During a live Special Report, ABC News reported that a confidant of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Flynn was prepared to testify that then-candidate Donald Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials during the campaign. That source later clarified that during the campaign, Trump assigned Flynn and a small circle of other senior advisers to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other hot spots. It was shortly after the election, that President-elect Trump directed Flynn to contact Russian officials on topics that included working jointly against ISIS."

Political blogger Charles P. Pierce even predicted the Ross report would be bogus based on the idiot's reputation.

"I'm going to hold fire on the ABC report. Ross has been known to get out over his skis. But, if it's true, that's the ballgame," Pierce tweeted before the correction was made.

Even CNN's bald-headed stooge, Brian Stelter actually appeared to be calling for Ross to be disciplined.

"When there's breaking news, especially about terrorism and national security, ABC News' Brian Ross is there. And under no circumstances should you listen to anything he says," John Cook of Gawker wrote.

Ross's report "Taking on Toyota" was widely criticized for relying on information from trial lawyers. He also falsely connected domestic anthrax attacks to Iraq and stirred controversy with disputed reporting on the Detroit "underwear bomber."

It's no wonder why Ross is one of the most prize-winning investigative reporters and scores a seven-figure salary in spite of his long history of screwups. 

And because ABC is in the tank for the left, they will likely do nothing and say little about Ross.

ABC's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz was accused by then- President elect Trump for crying on air on election night. She denies this, but the video should help you decide. Interestingly, former President Obama attended her second of three weddings.

ABC's entertainment programming is extremely liberal, making everything they do political and taking the joy out of Behar. The network recently shelled out $25 million to employ Clinton activist Katy Perry as a judge for a revised season of "American Idol," and Disney CEO Bob Iger is probably going to make a White House run in 2020.

There are a number of reasons Trump won the election, and networks like ABC, MSNBC CNN, etc.,  that are so obviously bias and hateful helped him win because you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

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