A Fulton County judge is expected to make a ruling this week over whether District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade — with whom she had a romantic relationship — should be disqualified from their investigation and indictment of former President Donald Trump.
What will the judge decide to do? Who knows because WWL's Newell Normand says the case is as 'clear as mud.' Former U.S. Attorney Harry Rosenberg joined Normand to discuss the case.
Willis is facing allegations she misused taxpayer funds and crossed ethical boundaries during her romantic relationship with Wade, and allegedly had a relationship with him even before she hired him. The judge has to decide if Willis' relationship with Wade presents a conflict of interest, and/or undermines the credibility of the prosecution.
"The defense is trying to prove that their relationship went before 2022," Normand explained, and at least one witness said he had personal knowledge of their relationship back to 2019.
CBS News reported that Trump's defense lawyers are trying to prove that Willis 'entered into a corrupt bargain with Wade during their romantic relationship to place him on the prosecution team, pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars, so that the two of them could benefit financially.'
"He (Wade) was never special prosecutor, he acknowledged that he never handled a RICO case before. You have to wonder why Willis picked Wade ... Whether it was friendship, whether it was prior relationships ... Something peculiar exists in terms of why she picked Wade to be the special prosecutor considering his abject lack of experience in these cases," Rosenberg said.
Willis is the locally elected district attorney who issued dozens of indictments accusing Trump of trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Trump supporters hope the Willis/Wade saga ends the Georgia case against him.
If Willis is disqualified, the case against Trump would move to the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, and they would decide which DA would handle the case. And then that person would decide how -- and even if -- to pursue it.
