‘I’m not on trial’: Fani Willis denies wrongdoing over relationship with Trump prosecutor
by Hugo Lowell and George Chidi in Atlanta and Sam Le from US news | The Guardian on (#6JN6K)
Fulton county DA rejects accusations that relationship with Nathan Wade should lead to disqualification from election case
Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, vehemently denied wrongdoing while testifying at a court hearing on Thursday as she rebutted accusations that her romantic relationship with a deputy prosecutor on the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump meant she should be disqualified from the case.
The district attorney testified that her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade started months after he was retained to work on the case, charging Trump over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state, and ended in summer 2023.
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