Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling into whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the case into former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference sparked outrage from MAGA members on Friday.
McAfee ruled that Willis could choose between staying on the case herself or keeping attorney Nathan Wade as a prosecutor. Attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendants argued the relationship between Willis and Wade should lead to her disqualification, alleging the pair benefited from taxpayer dollars. Willis, however, maintained that she engaged in no wrongdoing and that their relationship began only after he was hired.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson said during a livestream discussing the ruling that it was “not the result we were looking for.”
“We were looking for total and complete disqualification,” he said.
Conservative pundit Tim Pool wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter, “This judge is a coward.”
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Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling into whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the case into former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference sparked outrage from MAGA members on Friday.
Attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendants argued the relationship between Willis and Wade should lead to her disqualification, alleging the pair benefited from taxpayer dollars.
Willis charged Trump and 18 others for efforts to allegedly overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, which the former president has claimed was stolen despite a lack of evidence.
“This finding is by no means an indication that the Court condones this tremendous lapse in judgement or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorney’s testimony during the evidentiary hearing,” Judge McAfee wrote.
Fani Willis overpaid her lover Nathan Wade as he had zero experience with RICO cases, abuse of taxpayer funds!"
Willis has not yet responded to McAfee’s ruling, but legal experts have said the judge gave her an “easy choice,” as she can simply remove Wade from the case and continue toward the trial, which has already been delayed due to the disqualification question.
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