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Former President Donald Trump — facing 91 felony criminal charges and fined hundreds of millions of dollars in civil lawsuits — continues to engage in baseless character assassination of his prosecutors, judges and accusers. One example is his salacious smear campaign against Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her relationship with a prosecutor she retained on the election interference case.
Willis, the top state prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, obtained grand jury indictments against Trump and others in August alleging they had “engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result,” Willis said at the time.
Trump faces 13 criminal charges in Georgia. One accuses him of demanding in a phone call recorded without his knowledge that Georgia’s secretary of state “find 11,780 votes” that did not exist to overturn now-President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory in Georgia. You can hear the phone call for yourself in this link.
As he often does, Trump is trying to divert attention from the accusations against him by making accusations against his accusers. His attorney and attorneys for his co-defendants did this in a hearing in Atlanta on Thursday and Friday in an effort to disqualify Willis from prosecuting Trump and others, on the grounds that she had a romantic relationship with the Nathan Wade, the lawyer she hired as the lead prosecutor in the case.
Wade acknowledged in testimony Thursday that he had a sexual relationship with Willis while separated from his estranged wife. But both Wade and Willis testified the relationship began in 2022 — after Willis hired him as a prosecutor the year before — and both testified the relationship ended months ago. Both also testified they split the cost of vacation trips they…
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