Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files a complaint seeking to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for her “illegal relationship” with a top prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case against former President Trump. submitted.
“Today, I am filing a complaint to remove Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis from office due to her corrupt practices,” Rep. Greene, R-Ga., said in an X post Wednesday. .
Greene’s post came after Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee issued a certificate of summary review on Wednesday, allowing Trump and eight co-defendants to request a new trial. appeal of command.
“Fani was revealed to have been on a lavish vacation with her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, and should have been removed from political persecution against President Trump,” Greene wrote. “She paid her boyfriend hundreds of thousands of dollars!”
“Unfit for service!” she added.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman from Georgia, was photographed wearing the same outfit she was seen with Sajak at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on September 3. (Michelle Gustafsson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
After McAfee claimed that Willis had profited from hiring special counsel Nathan Wade, lawyers for Mr. Trump and several co-defendants in the election interference case said they had “found no real benefit in this case.” The court ruled that the government had “failed to meet its burden of proving the conflict.”
Willis was accused of having an “improper” relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor he hired to prosecute the case.
Mr. Trump and several co-defendants claimed that Mr. Willis had a romantic relationship with Mr. Wade before he was hired and that Mr. Wade benefited financially from his position in the office.
Both Willis and Wade denied the charges.
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, 2024. (Alex Slitspool/Getty Images)
Mr. Wade offered his resignation in a letter to Mr. Willis on March 15, saying he was “in the interests of democracy, my dedication to the American people, and to move this case forward as quickly as possible.”
“I will always remember, and I remind you all, that you courageously came forward to investigate and prosecute the allegations that the defendants in this case were involved in a conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. ,” Willis wrote. A letter accepting his resignation.
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“You are an outstanding advocate,” she added.
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Buckeye Values PAC rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. (Kamil Krzazinski/AFP via Getty Images)
President Trump said on his Truth Social platform that Wade resigned in “disgrace.”
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“Nathan is ‘special’ in more ways than one, and for the purpose of election interference and his livelihood, to persecute Trump on behalf of crooked Joe Biden and his fraud department, Fani (pronounced Fa-nee!) “Rich and famous people who were ‘implicated’ by Prosecutor Willis,” he wrote. “This is the equivalent of a deranged Jack Smith being ‘canned’ for something big and should happen in the not-too-distant future!!!”
FOX News has reached out to Greene for comment.
Fox News’ Brianna Herlihy and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
