Summary
A Georgia appellate court disqualified Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald Trump and co-defendants in the 2020 election interference case due to her relationship with a special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.
The court ruled Willis’ involvement compromised public confidence, despite Wade’s resignation.
While the case has not been dismissed, transferring it to another county prosecutor may prove difficult given its political and legal complexity.
The decision significantly undermines the case, following federal prosecutors already dropping related charges after Trump’s reelection.
Admittedly, even trying to see the right-wing perspective gives me acid indigestion, but can someone explain-like-I’m-5 why the DA’s romantic life has any bearing on the matter?
Right-wing perspective: because she is using state money to pay her lover who then takes her on vacations, it is in her interests to drag out the case to keep paying her lover more money. This means she will keep dragging Trump through the mud just to keep taking funneling state money to her lover. She had the choice of who to hire as her support team, and she chose to hire someone she is not only sleeping with but also taking nice vacations with who pays for parts of those trips.
Reality: she is paying her share of those vacations and tried to move the case faster than the defendant’s lawyers wanted. She has no interest in dragging the case out and all the delays have been on Trump’s side.
The real issue: she had to be 100% perfect to take down Trump, and she allowed her personal life to interfere with her professional life. If she had hired someone else or put her relationship on hold, then maaaaaaaaybe Trump would have gone to trial (HAHAHAHAHA, yeah right). If this man was so important to her, then she should have recused herself.
For… hiring someone she knew. I’m still not seeing it, unless there’s evidence that she was dragging the case out, as you say.
What she did was give the right a shiny object to yell at. That’s it.
Because people’s personal lives can impact their professional lives. I’m not saying she should have recused herself, or that there’s a legitimate CoI, but moving a case due to one isn’t unheard of at all.