Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis arrives for the final arguments in her disqualification hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee is considering a motion to disqualify Willis over her romantic relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she appointed as special prosecutor in the election interference charges against former president Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Slitz / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX SLITZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN’s Abril Elfi
4:18 PM – Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee have won their primary elections.
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Willis, the prosecutor who brought the election interference case against Trump, defeated progressive attorney Christian Wise Smith in the primary election. She is now set to face off against Republican Courtney Kramer in the fall.
Willis told reporters after her victory that the voters sent a message that “people want a DA that is just, that treats everybody equally and that works hard, and they know that they have that in me.”
McAfee, the judge assigned to preside over the State of Georgia v. Trump case, will keep his seat after winning his nonpartisan election.
A loss by either Willis or McAfee could have postponed or derailed the former president’s trial.
Due to Willis’s romantic affair with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor the DA’s office hired to assist in overseeing the trial, Trump and the other defendants are attempting to have Willis removed from the case.
According to the Georgia Recorder, the Georgia Court of Appeals anticipates making a decision regarding the president’s request to remove Willis over the course of the next several months.
The charges against Willis were initially revealed in a motion that Michael Roman’s former White House assistant and former Trump campaign member, Ashleigh Merchant, filed early in January. The motion maintained that Wade and Willis were having an improper romantic relationship. During their long-term affair, Willis was heavily overpaying Wade for his job while she took equal advantage by benefiting from vacations Wade paid for that she claims she would later reimburse him for.
In August, Trump and 18 other individuals were indicted on charges of allegedly engaging in an extensive plot to unlawfully reverse his narrow defeat to Democrat candidate Joe Biden in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. The defendants were all accused of breaking Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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