Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) declined to say if Fulton County DA Fani Willis should step down in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election case.
Willis has faced scrutiny for her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a private sector attorney she hired to help prosecute Trump and 18 others. Defense attorneys for Trump and other co-defendants have argued Willis should be disqualified because the case has been tainted by a conflict of interest.
“We are watching our judicial system play out, and I know that there are folks, unfortunately, in the state of Georgia, politicians, who are trying to put their hand on the scale,” he said during a Sunday interview on “Meet The Press,” adding, “I’m not going to pile on. I’m not going to add to that. I will watch this process play out.”affirmed that Trump “deserves to have a fair trial before a jury of his peers.
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will determine whether Willis should be disqualified from the case. His ruling is expected in the next two weeks or so. McAfee, Warnock said, will have to make that determination “not based on optics, but based on the law.”One of Trump’s co-defendants, Michael Roman, was the first to allege that Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade engaged in a romantic relationship, claiming in a January motion that she improperly benefited from it when he paid for several vacations that the pair took together.
Roman’s counsel also claimed that the relationship began before she hired him to lead the case in early November 2021. The prosecutors admitted in a court filing that they did have a personal relationship, but said it started in 2022.
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