Defense attorney Ashley Merchant predicts Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will continue to face repercussions after she was disqualified from the Georgia lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump. There is.
Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Mike Roman and filed the original motion to remove Willis, said he expects the next administration's Justice Department to launch an investigation into the DA's office. He said that
“They fought every step we took.”
submitted by seller motion In January, the court ruled to fire and disqualify Willis for his affair with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor in the case.
The motion states that Willis “had an inappropriate and confidential personal relationship during the pendency of this case that resulted in the special prosecutor, and by extension the district attorney, benefiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of taxpayers.” “It became,” he criticized.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee previously ruled that the incident created “an appearance of fraud” that forced Wade to resign.
On Thursday, the appeals court found that Wade's withdrawal from the case failed to “address the manifestation of fraud.”
As a result, the court disqualified Mr. Willis but upheld the charges against Mr. Trump and his co-defendants.
“It feels like Christmas came early,” Merchant said. Daily Caller News Foundation. “We had to fight for hearings. We had to fight for subpoenas. We had to fight for evidence. We had to fight to call witnesses. .”
“So they fought every step we took,” she added.
Merchant told news outlets that he expected President Trump's Justice Department to investigate Willis' conduct.
“I would be shocked if she wasn't investigated by the new Justice Department,” she said.
The court's decision to uphold the charges means the case could be tried in another county.
However, John Yoo, former President George W. Bush's Justice Department official, said Fox News said that was unlikely to happen and predicted the case would be dismissed or put on hold.
Yoo said, “Fani Willis should not be a prosecutor because there are so many signs of fraud and conflicts of interest.'' “This means yet another case that will likely be put on hold or simply closed and thrown out. Another Georgia district attorney will take up this flawed case and Trump These theories are that his re-election campaign was some kind of criminal organized crime enterprise. ”
MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuaid similarly predicted that Willis' disqualification would be a “terrible blow to the prosecution” and that the case would be dismissed.
McQuaid said She said she expected Willis to try to appeal her recusal to the Georgia Supreme Court.
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