Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis claimed that she is not worried after Judge Scott McAfee re-opened the disqualification case into Willis\u2019 conduct, instead claiming that a \u201ctrain is coming\u201d for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
While speaking with CNN, Willis claimed that her record is clean and opted to once again throw her former lover, Nathan Wade, under the bus. \u201cI don\u2019t feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed.\u00a0Let\u2019s say it for the record, I\u2019m not embarrassed by anything I\u2019ve done.\u00a0You know, I guess my greatest crime is I had a relationship with a man,\u00a0but that\u2019s not something that I find embarrassing in any way.\u00a0And I know that I have not done anything that\u2019s illegal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, my team\u2019s been continuing to work it, and I think the media,\u00a0and especially organizations like your own have been paying attention.\u00a0All while that was going on, we were writing responsive briefs. We were still doing the case in the way that it needed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve been slowed down at all. I do think\u00a0way that it needed to be done. I don\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve been slowed down at all. I do think\u00a0that there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Despite the prosecutor\u2019s claims, a number of legal analysts have all but\u00a0written off<\/a>\u00a0the possibility of Willis\u2019 massive, unprecedented RICO case against former President Trump and a number of his associates going to trial before election day. Another RICO case brought by Willis\u2019 office against members of the YSL rap label has pressed on at an incredibly slow pace, with jury selection alone taking more than a year.<\/p>\n In addition to the short timeline, Willis is still under threat of disqualification due to perjury allegations and alleged misuse of county funds.<\/p>\n The case stems from Willis\u2019 hiring of Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor to work on her RICO case against former President Trump. Willis did not disclose that she was having an affair with Wade \u2014 who was paid $700,000 for his work on the case and took several lavish trips with the district attorney \u2014 until it was exposed as part of Wade\u2019s divorce proceedings.<\/p>\n While both Willis and Wade\u00a0testified<\/a>\u00a0that the relationship began when he was hired to work on the case in 2022, a former office employee testified that it began as early as 2021.<\/p>\n Though McAfee did not disqualify Willis outright in his\u00a0ruling<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month, he did acknowledge impropriety on the part of both Wade and Willis. Wade was forced to resign in order for Willis to remain on the case, though the embattled district attorney is far from in the clear, as McAfee has\u00a0re-opened the case<\/a>\u00a0for evidence.<\/p>\n