Florida Congressman Byron Donalds added his voice to a chorus of Republican officials calling for the resignation of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis amid claims suggesting her involvement in a secret love affair with Nathan Wade, the private attorney she hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump on state racketeering charges.
Donalds issued a scathing rebuke on the Jan. 20 episode of the “Megyn Kelly Show,” saying Willis should be removed and disbarred amid the salacious allegations, while he also condemned a Jan. 14 speech by Willis at Atlanta’s Big Bethel AME Church, where she responded to the scandal a week after it came to light in court papers.
“The Lord did not cause you to stumble into $600,000 in taxpayer money because you’re sleeping with the dude who’s lead prosecutor,” Donalds said during the segment. “You thought you were gonna get away and so you tried to get the church’s money, that’s what happened here, and you got caught. It’s that simple.”
Donalds was referring to the Jan. 8 motion filed by former Republican campaign aide Michael Roman — a co-defendant alongside Trump in Georgia’s 2020 election interference case — who asserted that Wade is being paid a significantly higher salary than other Fulton County prosecutors, amounting to $654,000 in legal fees since taking over the prosecution against Trump.
Roman asserted in his motion that Wade used the money to take himself and Willis on extravagant vacations together, constituting potential ethical and criminal violations as Wade was handling the case against Trump while secretly engaged in an extraordinary romance with his boss.
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