Trump demands Fani Wills is DISQUALIFIED from case
- Trump’s lawyers filed bombshell filing accusing Willis of ‘playing the race card’
- Follows church speech where she hit back at Nathan Wade affair allegations
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Donald Trump has demanded Fani Willis be disqualified from his Georgia election fraud case after she ‘injected race’ into the case, and called for the charges against him be dropped.
The former president’s co-defendant Michael Roman alleged in court filings that Willis had an inappropriate relationship with Nathan Wade, the lawyer she hired to help run the criminal case.
The bombshell court document has led to a flurry of allegations, including Wade buying flights and cruises for Willis as they carried on their fling.
The scandal centered around Wade’s divorce from his wife of 26 years has thrown the case into chaos and now the president’s legal team is demanding she is removed.
Trump’s defense team endorsed those claims and leveled new accusations that Willis ‘inappropriately injected race into the case and stoked racial animus’ during a speech responding to Roman’s allegations.
Willis questioned why Wade had come under scrutiny, while the other two special prosecutors who are white had not been targeted.
In an impassioned 35-minute speech at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta Sunday, she did not directly refer to – and did not deny – the accusations but suggested that criticism of her was racist and sexist.
‘You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. We need to be allowed to stumble,’ she said.
‘I’m just asking, God, is it that some will never see a Black man as qualified, no matter his achievements?
‘First thing they say, oh, she gonna to play the race card now,’ Willis said. ‘But no, God, isn’t it them who’s playing the race card when they only question one’.
Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little referenced the speech in an explosive legal filing and accused Willis of playing the ‘race car’.
‘The DA’s provocative and inflammatory extrajudicial racial comments, made in a widely publicized speech at a historical black church in Atlanta, and cloaked in repeated references to God, reinforce and amplify the ‘appearance of impropriety’ in her judgment and prosecutorial conduct’, Trump’s lawyers said in a filing.
The drama in Trump’s election fraud case is far from over.
A judge has also ordered the files in Wade’s divorce to be unsealed, meaning more secrets about his relationship with Willis could be spilled.
The affair allegations threaten to derail the election case, which charges Trump and 18 allies with working to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Willis has defended hiring Wade, who has little prosecutorial experience, to handle the case against Trump, but has not directly denied a romantic relationship.
Trump and others have seized on the allegations of an affair – and Wade’s qualifications as a prosecutor.
Judge Henry Thompson ordered the unsealing of Wade’s divorce case in a brief hearing at Cobb County Superior Court in Georgia.
The judge put off a final decision on whether Willis will have to sit for questioning in the divorce case.
He also delayed a deposition the District Attorney had been scheduled to give on Tuesday.
The divorce case is between Nathan Wade and his estranged wife of 26 years, Jocelyn Wade, who alleges her husband had an inappropriate relationship with Willis.
In response Willis has accused Jocelyn Wade of trying to obstruct the criminal case against Trump by seeking to question her in the couple’s divorce proceedings.
Judge Thompson ordered that the divorce documents be released after a request by Andrea Dyer Hastings, an attorney for Jocelyn Wade.
Hastings has already filed court documents showing that Nathan Wade bought plane tickets in Willis’ name.
There ‘appears to be no reasonable explanation for their travels apart from a romantic relationship,’ Hastings said.
As the drama in Georgia took another turn, Trump appeared in court in New York and testified for three minutes in the E. Jean Carroll defamation damages trial.
