Georgia DA Fani Willis is facing some serious ethics violations. News broke this week that Willis hired her romantic partner, Nathan Wade, to prosecute Donald Trump and paid him more than $600,000.
Now, the former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner says Fani has to go.
“You had a very big event yesterday as you saw in Georgia where the district attorney is totally compromised. The case has to be dropped,” Trump told reporters In Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, speaking after a hearing in a separate federal 2020 election interference case. “They went after 18 or 20 people. … She was out of her mind. Now it turns out that case is totally compromised.”
“It’s illegal. What she did is illegal. So we’ll let the state handle that, but what a sad situation it is,” Trump added.
A motion that was filed on behalf of former Trump campaign official Michael Roman, a co-defendant in the case, says “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney” confirm “they had an ongoing, personal relationship.”
The filing also calls for Willis and Wade to be thrown off the case.
From Fox News:
In August, Willis charged Trump out of her investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. Trump was charged with one count of violation of the Georgia RICO Act, three counts of criminal solicitation, six counts of criminal conspiracy, one count of filing false documents and two counts of making false statements.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The former president and 2024 frontrunner also faces charges in separate cases in New York City, Florida and Washington, D.C.
More over at Fox News:
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