Trump prosecutor Fani Willis’s father testifies to ‘nightmarish threats’ facing his daughter

Attorneys for Donald Trump and his allies who are criminally charged in a sprawling election interference case in Georgia have been scrutinising a relationship between the prosecutor leading the case and one of her lead attorneys.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the subject of a two-day court hearing – following allegations supported by Mr Trump and co-defendants – to interrogate her relationship with another attorney and whether they financially benefited from the case.

Defence attorneys have repeatedly questioned when she moved out of her home in South Fulton and into a condominium, suggesting that she was using the unit to conceal an alleged affair.

But testimony from Ms Willis’s father John Clifford Floyd III, a longtime civil rights activist who lived with Ms Willis, detailed the threats that the family faced shortly after she took office in early 2021, which prompted her move.

“There were people outside her house, cursing and yelling and calling her the b-word and the n-word” in February of that year, Mr Floyd testified on Friday.

“I hadn’t seen anything exactly like it before,” he said.

Fani Willis’s father John Clifford Floyd III testifies on 16 February

Ms Willis left the home in the weeks that followed. She testified on Thursday that she moved into a condominium owned by a friend after she was bombarded by violent threats after her election to the district attorney’s office.

“There’d been so many death threats and they said they were gonna blow up the house, they were gonna kill me, they were gonna kill my grandchildren,” Mr Floyd said on Friday. “I was concerned for her safety.”

Defence attorneys accuse Ms Willis of hiring lead prosecutor Nathan Wade while they were in a romantic relationship,