Donald Trump attacked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on social media amidst the news that Republican state senators are trying to pass a bill to oust Willis over her investigation into his alleged voter fraud.
The twice-impeached ex-president is currently being investigated over claims he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The New York Times reported that the Georgia Senate voted 32-24 to pass a bill sponsored by Sen. Randy Robertson, Senate Bill 92. The bill would create an oversight committee with the power to remove elected district attorneys who have committed “willful misconduct” in office. The GOP is also trying to pass a bill filed by state Rep. Houston Gaines that would allow for the recall of a district attorney with only 2 percent of voter signatures required. The amount of signatures currently needed is 30 percent.
Willis is soon expected to announce whether she will indict Trump for voter fraud, and she called the GOP maneuver to pass the two bills prior to her announcement “racist.” She also noted that the majority of people in Georgia live within the jurisdictions of 14 minority prosecutors.
“For the hundreds of years we’ve had prosecutors, this has been unnecessary,” said Willis, whose district includes most of Georgia’s capital, Atlanta. “But now all of a sudden this is a priority. And it is racist.”
Trump was delighted by the vote and took the opportunity to attack Willis by calling her a “rogue” prosecutor on his social media platform, Truth Social. The 76-year-old also called Willis “racist” and “incompetent” in his rant, which also called Atlanta “one of the most dangerous and corrupt cities in the U.S.”
“The Racist District Attorney in Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, one of the most dangerous and corrupt cities in the U.S., is now calling the Georgia Legislature, of course, RACIST, because they want to make it easier to remove and replace local rogue…
Read the full article here
