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.
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