The Georgia district attorney accused of hiring her boyfriend to prosecute former President Trump has broken her silence on the controversy, saying she and the prosecutor were targeted because they are Black.
“They only attacked one person,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Sunday at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta. “First they say, 'Oh, she's going to play her race card now.'
“But God is different. Aren't they the ones who are playing the race card with just one question?”
The comments are the first time Willis has spoken publicly about the allegations, but he has neither confirmed nor denied the allegations leveled against him and special counsel Nathan Wade, who helped prosecute the former Republican president in the election interference case. Neither did I.
She called Wade a “superstar” and a “great friend and great lawyer,” but did not mention his name once during her more than 30-minute speech, the newspaper said. atlanta journal constitution.
The two were accused by President Trump's co-defendant Michael Roman of having a “secret” and “inappropriate” affair during their appointment in the 2020 election interference case.
Roman, a former Trump 2020 campaign official, asked in a court filing last week that all charges against him be dropped, arguing that the pair's alleged affair compromised the integrity of the case.
“The District Attorney has chosen to appoint her partner in connection with this prosecution, and that partner has always been a married man,” the filing states.
Roman alleges in the complaint that Wade used some of the $654,000 in legal fees he won in the case to take Willis on vacations to “Napa Valley, California, Florida and the Caribbean.” He claimed to have used it.
In his speech, Willis noted that the two other prosecutors in the case, Anna Green Cross and John Floyd, are both white, and that the allegations are against prominent black members of the prosecution. He pointed out that only two people, her and Mr. Wade, have emerged as targets.
“I think it’s on their playing card that I always think I need someone from some other jurisdiction in some other state to teach me how to do the job that I’ve been doing for almost 30 years. ?” she asked.
Mr. Roman was unfazed by Mr. Willis' accusations that they were racist.
“The biggest difference between Mr. Cross, Mr. Floyd and Mr. Wade is that Mr. Willis has no relationship with Mr. Cross or Mr. Floyd,” he said in a statement to the Sunday edition of the Constitution Journal.
Willis' spokesperson said she plans to file a formal response to the allegations.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said he will schedule a hearing to address the issue once the application is filed.
