A new book chronicling Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia asserts that District Attorney Fani Willis asked former Gov. Roy Barnes to prosecute the state racketeering case before she ultimately turned the case over to Nathan Wade, with whom she is now accused of having an affair.
“Find Me The Votes,” written by investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, was released Tuesday, just weeks before Willis is due to appear at a Feb. 15 court hearing to answer to allegations of a secret romance with Wade.
The book, which is subtitled “A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal An American Election,” reveals that Willis first asked Barnes to serve as the lead counsel in the case against Trump, but when he turned the offer down, she turned to Gabe Banks, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. However, he also declined.
That’s when Willis ended up hiring her purported boyfriend in late 2021 to prosecute Trump on 13 criminal counts for his efforts to overturn the result of the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Willis sought outside counsel to handle the unprecedented case against Trump, ostensibly to minimize any perceived impropriety as Trump was the first U.S. president to ever face criminal charges.
The alleged relationship between Wade and Willis came to light in a Jan. 8 motion filed by former Republican campaign aide Michael Roman, who is one of more than a dozen co-defendants facing charges in the Georgia RICO case against Trump.
Since taking over the case, Wade has been paid close to $1 million in taxpayer dollars to bring the case against Trump, leading to accusations of fraud, but Willis has since indicated that Wade is being paid the same as two other special prosecutors assisting him in the matter.
Roman’s motion alleges the secret romance began before Wade was appointed to the case, and that Willis neglected to get…
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