Fani Willis faces new legal issues
Fox News legal editor Kerry Kupec Urban on new legal concerns for Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis and the latest findings of the Hunter Biden investigation
Democratic Fulton County District Attorney Local reports indicate that Fani Willis’ political opponent debated an empty stage after Willis did not attend the county’s first Democratic Party debate.
Willis is the Georgia district attorney who brought the election fraud case against former President Trump, accusing him and 18 co-defendants of trying to overturn the 2020 election. Willis became embroiled in controversy when she was accused of having an “inappropriate” relationship with her appointed special counsel, Nathan Wade.
A judge last month ordered Willis to either recuse himself from the case or fire Wade, with Wade ultimately resigning.
The Fulton County Democratic Party held its first primary debate on Sunday, but Willis was not in attendance, leaving her political rival on the stage alone, where she criticized her fellow Democrats for appointing a romantic partner to the high-profile case. Criticized.
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Fulton County DA candidate Christian Wise Smith on an empty debate stage. (Fox 5)
“This issue is important to us in Fulton County and to many people across the country,” Smith said on stage. Fox 5 reported.
”When you pay a lawyer almost $1 million to handle a case, it leaves the rest of us vulnerable. “This hurts everyone in Fulton County,” he said.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing in the case of State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images)
Smith did not take issue with Willis prosecuting Trump or the case, but rather said that Willis “has to do things differently.”
Willis did not attend the debate event, which was sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club to co-host the second annual “Self Care Fair” with the Atlanta City Councilwoman in honor of Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Willis is also focused on Trump’s continued prosecution, Fox 5 also reported, explaining why she was not present for the debate.
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Fox News Digital contacted Willis’s media team for additional comment on the matter, but did not immediately receive a response.
Willis and Smith will face each other Democratic primary on May 28, Despite the controversy surrounding the Trump affair, local polls show Willis has a strong lead over Smith. Fox 5 reported,
Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade sits in court during a hearing in the case of State of Georgia vs. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024 in Atlanta. (Alex Schlitz-Pool/Getty Images)
Democratic champion of the primary There will be a contest against the Republican challenger on November 5.
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Willis and Wade both acknowledged the relationship during testimony on the case, but said they made their relationship official in 2022, after charges were filed against defendants in the Trump case. However, witnesses in the case alleged that the pair started their relationship before 2022.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought the election findings case against former President Trump. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee Last month it said there was “a significant appearance of impropriety that affects the current composition of the prosecution team,” but not “an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and her recurring visits with the chief prosecutor.” found. McAfee ruled that either Willis recuse from the case or Wade be fired. Wade resigned last month.
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Scott McAfee, Fulton County Superior Court Judge, at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (Photographer: Alyssa Pointer/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Willis has rejected criticisms of her relationship with Wade, and late last month described herself as the only district attorney with the “courage” to prosecute Trump.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears during a hearing in the case of State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024 in Atlanta. (Alex Schlitz-Pool/Getty Images)
“There is one district attorney in the state – and really across the country – who has the courage to do this, and continues to do so,” Willis said. fox 5 atlanta Last month. “The case came to Fulton County, not by anything I did, but by the actions of others, and when a case comes under my jurisdiction, I’m going to prosecute it, and that’s the end of it. ”
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Meanwhile, Trump has targeted The case amounts to a “witch hunt” led by a “grossly compromised” district attorney.
