Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is considering her own 2020 election interference lawsuit against former President Trump, who was accused of having an “inappropriate” relationship with a special prosecutor she hired. He said he did not feel his reputation had been damaged.
“I don’t think I need to restore my reputation,” Willis told CNN on Saturday after taking questions from reporters. “I think my biggest sin was having an affair with a man. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. And I know I didn’t do anything illegal.”
Although the extortion case was delayed by two months, Willis said the team’s pace of operations has not slowed.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis watches a hearing in the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump case at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on March 1. (Alex Slitspool/Getty Images)
“My team continues to work on this case…We were still moving the case forward in the way we needed to,” she said. “I don’t feel like it’s slowing down at all. I think there’s an effort to slow this train down, but it’s coming.”
Mr. Trump and several co-defendants claim that Mr. Willis had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, whom he hired to prosecute the case, prior to his employment and that he received financial benefits from his position in the firm. did.
Both Willis and Wade denied these allegations.
Former special counsel Nathan Wade resigned last week. (Alex Slitspool/Getty Images)
After hearing all the evidence presented in court, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee last week gave Willis an ultimatum to either remove himself from the case or fire Wade. Hours after the judge’s order, Wade recused himself from the case and allowed Willis to remain in the case.
McAfee said the defendants “failed to meet their burden of proving that the district attorney had an actual conflict of interest in this case through his personal relationship with the lead prosecutor and his repeated travels.”
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled last week that prosecutor Fani Willis could remain on the case if Nathan Wade resigns. (Alyssa Poynter/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
However, the established record highlights the appearance of significant misconduct affecting the current structure of the prosecution team, and such appearance does not allow the state to choose one of two options. ” he wrote, adding that Willis and her entire office can choose to stand aside or Wade can withdraw from the case.
Mr. McAfee said,[w]Defendants’ claims of an actual dispute are denied unless there is sufficient evidence that the district attorney obtained a personal interest in the prosecution or that the district attorney’s financial arrangements had any impact on the case. It must be. ”
But he went on to say that his findings “in no way indicate that the court will condone this serious error of judgment or the district attorney’s unprofessional testimony during the evidentiary hearing.”
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“Rather, Georgia law does not permit a finding of actual dispute based on even repeated wrong choices, and it is up to the trial court to limit itself to the relevant issues and applicable law properly raised. “It is the opinion of the signatories that it is mandatory,” McAfee said.
McAfee also gave Trump 10 days to appeal the ruling.
Fox News’ Brianna Herlihy and Claudia Kelly-Bazan contributed to this report.
