As attacks continue to mount against Fani Willis ahead of the Georgia election interference trial, Donald Trump‘s latest attempt to discredit her comes in the form of a new motion to disqualify her from the case that cites “racial animus” the prosecutor has against the former president.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that two of Trump’s attorneys submitted a new court filing declaring a “glaring, flagrant, and calculated effort to foment racial bias into this case” following some remarks that Willis made when she spoke to the congregation of the historic Black church Big Bethel AME in downtown Atlanta during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service on Jan. 14.
The Fulton County prosecutor is currently shouldering the fallout of some incendiary allegations purporting that she not only had an affair with a special prosecutor who is assigned to the election subversion case but financially benefited from it.
Willis has declined to comment directly on the claims since they surfaced a couple of weeks ago, but her remarks at Big Bethel marked the first time she’s addressed them.
She told congregation members that this most recent attack, like most of the attacks her opponents have launched at her over the RICO case, is racially motivated. She and the special prosecutor included in the allegation, Nathan Wade, are both Black. Willis stated that the other attorneys working on the case, who are white, haven’t been subjected to any harassment.
“First thing they say, oh, she gonna to play the race card now,” Willis said during her speech. “But no, God, isn’t it them who’s playing the race card when they only question one?”
She also defended hiring all three special prosecutors for the case, including Wade.
“They only attack one,” Willis said. “I hired one white woman, a good personal friend and a great lawyer, a superstar, I tell you. I hired one white man – brilliant – my friend and a great lawyer….
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