The Atlanta DA had attempted to « foment racial animus and prejudice against the defendants » in the former president’s election interference case in order to « divert and deflect attention away from her alleged improprieties, » lawyers claimed.
Lawyers for Donald Trump asked for the district attorney prosecuting him over election fraud charges in Georgia to be dismissed Thursday, citing “racial prejudice”.
Lawyers defending Trump against the 13 felony counts charged DA Fani Willis has made “extrajudicial public statements falsely and intentionally injecting race into this case.”
The legal maneuver came after Willis was accused by co-defendant Michael Roman of having an an inappropriate relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to lead the case, Nathan Wade, and asked for the case against him to be dropped.
Willis then made a speech at a historically black church Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in which she claimed her critics were attacking her and Wade because they are people of color.
“I’m a little confused. I appointed three special counsel, as is my right to do,” Willis told the Big Bethel AME congregation. “They only attack one of them,” she said, without mentioning the defendants.
“Some will never see a black man as qualified, no matter his achievements.”
Trump’s lawyers referenced the speech in court filings Thursday, saying she had “violated her special responsibilities of a prosecutor under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.
