Trump Joins Legal Effort To Disqualify DA Fani Willis From Georgia Election Case

Donald Trump has joined an existing legal effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against the former president and his 18 co-defendants, accusing her of having an improper romantic relationship and injecting “racial animus” into the probe.

In a Thursday complaint, Trump’s legal team accused Willis of violating her prosecutorial responsibilities, citing the unsubstantiated allegation that she hired someone she was romantically involved with to be the case’s lead special prosecutor.

The complaint comes after a motion that was filed earlier this month by Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign staffer and one of the criminal racketeering case’s co-defendants. Roman alleged that Willis had an improper relationship with Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade when she hired him to lead the case, and that she financially benefited from the move.

After Roman’s allegations — which did not include concrete evidence of such a relationship — a judge on Monday ordered the unsealing of court records in divorce proceedings between Wade and his estranged wife. Financial statements showed that Wade purchased flights to San Francisco and Miami, Florida, with Willis during the election probe. The documents publicly released so far do not provide additional evidence of a possible affair or any financial misconduct.

Willis has not directly denied having a romantic relationship with Wade, but filed a motion last week that said his estranged wife had “conspired with interested parties” in the election case and was “obstructing and interfering with an ongoing criminal prosecution.”

In addition to Roman’s claims, Trump lawyer Steve Sadow has accused Willis, who is Black, of