A former U.S. attorney announced on Friday that part of the charges against Georgia's Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after she used race to defend a colleague who was accused of having an inappropriate relationship. He suggested that there was a high possibility that the charges would be admitted to be true.
“We have now confirmed that this is an attack on those who have questioned or raised the issue for further investigation, and that it is perhaps a concession that some of the allegations in the motion must be true.” “It sounds very much like that to me,” Michael said of Willis' recent remarks on CNN, where Moore serves as an analyst.
According to court documents filed earlier this month, Willis hired her alleged lover, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, to use funds from Willis's company to prosecute former President Trump in the Georgia election interference case. He allegedly used the money to take lavish vacations and profited financially from the relationship. He received for solving the case.
Willis recently received a subpoena to appear in court as part of Wade's divorce proceedings. A new filing from Wade's lawyers alleges that his estranged wife conspired with interested parties to “embarrass, embarrass” and “oppress” Willis.
“There is no relevant information that Mr. Willis can provide as the parties agree that the marriage is irretrievably broken down,” the filing states in part.
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Former U.S. attorney Michael Moore said Fani Willis was using her race as a “shield” to protect herself from suspicion. (Photo by Megan Berner of The Washington Post via Getty Images/CNN/Screenshot)
Moore, a Democrat who was appointed by President Obama in 2010 and served until 2015, told CNN that he doesn't think the allegations themselves will be “completely destructive” to the case against Trump, but that they are “not realistic.” “It's an optical problem.” For Willis.
He noted that the judge will likely deal with the issue “briefly” and will likely ask Willis to state whether the allegations are accurate.
“I think the question is whether she hired someone who had no experience and actually had a history of prosecuting felonies to handle a case of this magnitude of this type,” he said.
Mr. Moore was then asked whether Mr. Willis could be prosecuted under honest services fraud and federal extortion laws after Mr. Wade allegedly paid about $650,000 to date.
He said he believed a prosecution of Mr. Willis would be “a long way off,” but took particular issue with allegations that Mr. Willis paid Mr. Wade 10 times more than he paid another special assistant. I looked at it. Moore stressed that these disparities need to be explained.
“No judge wants their courtroom to become a circus. The problem with these types of motions is that they tend to make the case look like a circus, as opposed to the facts of the case,” he said. Ta.
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Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who sued former President Donald Trump for election interference, is facing harsh criticism from all sides. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Willis appeared to use race to defend Wade during a speech at an Atlanta church on Sunday, saying, “All three of these special advisers are superstars. I wonder if there are some people who would never think that there is.” “Regardless of his accomplishments? What more can he accomplish? The other two have never been judges. But no one questions their qualifications.”
Moore said she doesn't believe her comments will help pass a motion to quash the subpoena.
“When you see her accuse in cases like this, where he's being questioned because he might be an African-American man, that's beside the point. You can't use race as a sword against someone. I don't think you can obviously attack someone, and just because you're African American, you can hide behind that and say that your activities are not subject to any investigation. “I think that's the line she crossed, especially when these allegations are being raised.” .
Moore added that her “attack” made it more likely that some of the allegations were true.
Moore previously said Willis should step back from the case amid the allegations. He suggested that if they were true, he would challenge the integrity of the proceedings.
“When a case gets lost, it's not because of a 'Matlock'-like moment. It's a 'My Cousin Vinny' moment where suddenly someone finds evidence. When a case gets cut 1,000 times, It disappears. This is a cut of the case,” Moore told CNN on Sunday.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a service at Big Bethel AME Church where she was an invited guest speaker on Sunday, January 14, 2024 in Atlanta. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via AP)
Trump co-defendant Michael Roman accused Willis and Wade of having an “inappropriate” and “secret” relationship during the time they were being named in the 2020 election interference case. did.
Roman, a former Trump 2020 campaign official, asked for the charges to be dropped last week, arguing that the incident undermined the integrity of the case.
The application also asks that the entire district attorney's office, including Willis and Wade, be disqualified from prosecuting the case.
Mr. Moore said he would instruct Mr. Willis to recuse himself from the case.
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“With these types of cases, these types of charges, I really think this case is bigger than one prosecutor,” Moore added. “And I think it's probably to preserve her case and show that what matters most to her are the facts of the Trump case that are contrary to her political career.”
News broke in August that Trump had been indicted by Willis on charges related to his alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, including violating Georgia's racketeering law. He pleaded not guilty.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
