A three-day evidentiary hearing was held to determine whether district attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the election interference prosecution against Donald Trump due to her romantic relationship with a deputy handling the case. The matter began in January when Republican operative Michael Roman filed a motion claiming Willis financially benefited from the case because of a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a top prosecutor in the case. Willis and Wade admitted to a romantic relationship, but both testified about vacations they had taken together and revealed personal details about the relationship that began in 2022 and ended last summer. Adam Abbate, a lawyer in Willis’s office, stated that there was no evidence that the district attorney benefited financially at all.
The trial of Donald Trump’s former wife, Virginia Wade, continues in the US Senate, and the case involves a series of legal challenges, including the disqualification of Willis from investigating a fake elector case. Defense lawyers argue that the appearance of a conflict of interest is enough to disqualify Willis, but McAfee seems skeptical that this standard would be sufficient.
Robert CI McBurney, a Fulton county judge who was overseeing the case at an earlier stage, disqualified Willis from investigating a fake elector after she appeared at a fundraiser for his political rival. A disqualification would upend the case and delay it past the 2024 election.
