„Overall this really become a sideshow,“ Joyce Vance said on Saturday.
After Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced potential disqualification from Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia, legal analyst and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance warned on Saturday that Willis is a „cautionary tale“ for other Trump prosecutors.
Willis has found herself at the center of a potential ethics violation related to her alleged affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. This comes amid Willis‘ case against the former president, in which Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted by a Georgia grand jury in August and face criminal racketeering charges for allegedly attempting to overturn the state’s electoral results in the 2020 election won by Joe Biden. Trump, the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, has pleaded not guilty.
In an attempt to get Willis and her team disqualified and the charges against them thrown out, some of the defendants, including Trump, argued that a personal relationship between Willis and her lead prosecutor Wade created a conflict of interest. While Willis and Wade confirmed that they had been in a relationship, they said that neither had personally benefited from it.
