Democrats are desperately fighting to keep the Fulton County prosecutor’s office in charge of the Georgia criminal case pending against Donald Trump and his associates. And that tells you all you need to know about the merits of the get-Trump prosecution launched by the now-falling Democrat star Fani Willis.
“Fani Willis’s Grand-Slam Indictment Against Donald Trump,” blared one headline from last August, championing the news that the Democrat-elected county prosecutor had charged Trump and 18 others in a sprawling 41-count indictment. For months, Willis wore the crown of the country, being honored everywhere from the local Atlanta Business League to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where she received the title of 2023’s Most Influential Black American. She was reportedly even up for Time’s Person of the Year.
What a Difference a Scandal Makes
But now The New York Times has run an op-ed calling for Willis to take a leave of absence from the Fulton County district attorney’s office.
Wednesday’s opinion piece, “Why Fani Willis Should Step Aside in the Trump Case in Georgia,” authored by Clark Cunningham, a professor of legal ethics at Georgia State University, follows from the growing scandal surrounding Willis’ hiring of Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in her targeting of Trump and his co-defendants.
According to a joint motion to dismiss and motion to disqualify filed earlier this month by defendant Michael Roman — the Trump 2020 campaign’s director of Election Day operations — Willis was having an affair with the still-married Wade when she
