'Nothing going well for the swamp': Fani Willis slammed as disqualification appeal taken up in Trump case

ATLANTA, GEORGIA: The Georgia Court of Appeals agreed on Wednesday, May 8, to hear former President Donald Trump's request to remove Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, from prosecuting the election fraud case against him, according to the New York Post.

The ruling is likely to result in further delays in the case, which was previously scheduled for trial in August, this year.

This delay is due to the revelation that District Attorney Willis had an affair with her lead prosecutor, Nathan Wade.

In March, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis could continue to work on the case against the former president and his 14 co-defendants so long as Wade resigned from the case, which he did on the same day.

What did Trump and his co-defendants accuse DA Fani Willis of committing?

In their request for the Georgia Court of Appeals to hear their arguments, the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, along with eight other defendants accused District Attorney Fani Willis of prosecutorial misconduct concerning the affair with lead prosecutor Wade.

Trump’s attorney, Steven Sadow, said in a statement, “President Trump looks forward to presenting interlocutory arguments to the Georgia Court of Appeals as to why the case should be dismissed and Fulton County DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct in this unjustified, unwarranted political persecution.”

The 77-year-old MAGA strongman accused Willis of unjustly appointing her boyfriend to the well-paid special prosecutor post and then receiving benefits from his earnings when he took her on extravagant vacations.

Willis and Wade, in a tense hearing in February, admitted that they had been together, but they denied that their relationship had become romantic until after Wade began working on the investigation in November 2021.

They both testified that they parted ways in the summer of 2023.

Additionally, they claimed that Willis did not benefit financially from Wade's position, as they would split the cost of their getaways, with Wade fronting the money on his credit cards and Willis repaying her portion in cash.

However, Judge McAfee's ruling found that the mere inkling of misconduct was sufficient for one of the two prosecutors to be removed.

At the time of McAfee's ruling, Willis remained undaunted, stating that "the train is coming" for Trump, and claiming that she was "not embarrassed" by her affair.

Former POTUS Donald Trump is presently on trial in a separate hush money criminal case in Manhattan, which may be the only time he faces a jury before Election Day on November 5.

The ex-Commander-in-Chief also faces two other federal criminal cases, one in Florida for allegedly hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after leaving office and then lying about it, and the other in Washington, DC, on charges of unlawfully conspiring to remain in office after his 2020 election defeat. 

The billionaire businessman has denied all charges and claims that the cases are part of a Democratic witchhunt to prevent his re-election.

Internet abuzz as Georgia appeals court to consider disqualifying Fani Willis from Trump's election fraud case

One X user remarked, "If approved, Good Riddance !"

Another user said, "This LIAR should be put in JAIL."

Another user wrote, "Not only should she be disqualified, she should lose her law license and be put in jail."

One X user claimed, "That’s because the cowardly judge punted to appellate because he didn’t want to hurt his reelection chances."

Another user remarked, "And they should disqualify her."

Finally, this user tweeted, "Nothing is going well for the swamp."

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