PUT HER OUT ON HER FANI
Ga. pol wants to boot Don indicter
A Georgia lawmaker filed a resolution Friday to impeach beleaguered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
State Rep. Charlice Byrd (R-Woodstock) said Willis is using her office “not for justice but for political gain” in her prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others over election interference.
In addition, the Georgia Senate voted Friday to approve the formation of a committee to investigate potential wrongdoing on Willis’ part in the wake of allegations of an affair with the special prosecutor appointed to oversee the Trump case.
The panel will have the power to compel testimony from key witnesses and subpoena records.
Byrd accused Willis of violating the First Amendment by hunting down and indicting conservatives for scrutinizing the 2020 electoral results.
Diagnosing the district attorney with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Byrd also ripped Willis for a potential conflict of interest in light of her alleged relationship with Nathan Wade, who stands accused of using the funds the county paid him to take Willis on luxury romantic leisure trips.
Willis assigned Wade to the high-profile proceeding despite his limited legal resume and lack of experience with the complex anti-racketeering indictments being prosecuted.
Wade has been paid $654,000 for his work on the legal team, according to documents obtained by Trump co-defendant and former White House aide Michael Roman.
“Fani Willis has a laundry list of potential conflicts that make her unworthy and unfit to be the district attorney in Fulton County,” Byrd said. “Someone elected to that office is expected to uphold the law and not weaponize their office for political gain. Since Day One when she was elected, Fani Willis has embarrassed the criminal justice system in Fulton County and our state.”
Divorce filings by Wade’s nowestranged wife, Joycelyn, assert he and Willis were carrying on an affair, including glitzy trips to San Francisco and Miami.
Roman filed a motion seeking to disqualify Willis’ office from the case and called for the case to be junked entirely.
Trump’s lawyers have since signed on to that effort and Thursday accused Willis of “racial prejudice” in a filing seeking to have her removed from the case.
Willis has called Wade a “friend” and legal “superstar.”