Only in Atlanta: the small-town scandal of the Trump-Fani Willis case

Controversy over the prosecutor's romantic ties, bound up in questions of race and gender, lays bare a city of contradictions

It's not you, it's the appearance of impropriety.

Add that breakup line to the regional lexicon now that the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has cut ties with Nathan Wade - the lawyer she picked to prosecute Donald Trump for allegedly subverting Georgia's 2020 election proceedings, and whom she says she later began dating. Last Friday, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that the county's case could move forward if either Willis or Wade stepped down to eliminate the appearance of impropriety". Within hours, Wade tendered his resignation. It's the end of an affair that had Atlanta written all over it.