Legal experts predict that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faces an uphill battle in trying to have Donald Trump and 14 remaining co-defendants stand trial ahead of the 2024 election despite a judge ruling Friday that allowed Willis to continue prosecuting the election interference case.
According to several legal experts interviewed by the Georgia Recorder, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office does not have a good chance of successfully convening a trial this year against the former Republican president and his allies accused of overturning the 2020 election in Trump’s favor. The latest bombshell in the case dropped Friday when special prosecutor Nathan Wade resigned from the case after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered Wade or the Fulton district attorney to step aside.
McAfee wrote Friday morning that there is a need to address a “significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team” concerning Willis and Wade. The two admitted to having been romantically involved while the case was underway.
But McAfee concluded that the Trump co-defendants who were pushing for Willis’ disqualification had failed to prove a conflict of interest related to a relationship that saw Wade earn about $700,000 since Willis appointed him as special prosecutor in November 2021.
Wade submitted his letter of resignation Friday afternoon.
“Although the court found that ‘the defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest,’ I am offering my resignation in the interest of democracy, in dedication to the American public, and move this case forward as quickly as possible,” Wade wrote in his resignation letter.
It was one of two options presented in a 23-page ruling that McAfee issued Friday morning.
Even with the judge’s ruling in Willis’ favor, the motion to dismiss has delayed the case by more…
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