Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who has filed charges against former President Donald Trump for election interference, has been called upon to recuse herself from the case due to allegations of an “inappropriate” romantic involvement with a prosecutor, a former U.S. attorney appointed during the Obama administration said over the weekend.
Court papers submitted earlier this month state that Willis appointed special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is allegedly her romantic partner, to handle the prosecution of Trump. These documents also suggest that she obtained financial benefits from this relationship, including extravagant vacations funded by the fees paid to his firm for their work on the case. Willis has not officially acknowledged or refuted these allegations, Fox News reported.
Former U.S. Attorney Michael Moore stated that if the claims of an inappropriate romantic involvement between Willis and Wade prove to be accurate, they would constitute an “unforced error” on the part of the Fulton County DA, adding that such allegations could potentially compromise the credibility of the case.
“Cases are not lost because of some ‘Matlock’ moment, some moment like you see in ‘My Cousin Vinny,’ where suddenly somebody finds the evidence. Cases die by the death of 1,000 cuts. This is a cut on the case,” Moore told CNN on Sunday.
Trump’s co-defendant, Michael Roman, has alleged that Willis and Wade were engaged in an “improper” and “clandestine” romantic relationship at the same time when appointments were being finalized for the 2020 election interference case.
Roman, a former official in Trump’s 2020 campaign, contended that the affair jeopardized the integrity of the case. He requested last week for the charges against him to be dismissed on these grounds.
Moore, a Democrat who was appointed by Obama in 2010 and held office until 2015, believes that Willis should not act out of self-interest.
“I’d tell her to get out of the case. I really think that in this type of case, with these allegations, this case is bigger than any one prosecutor,” Moore continued during the interview. “And I think, probably, to preserve the case and to show that what’s of most importance to her is the facts of the Trump case, opposed to her political career.”
