Things are getting ugly for Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis. She hopes to ride a prosecution against former President Trump on election interference in 2020 into a career-making case.
Things are not going well for Fani. It’s all of her own doing. She has gotten caught in some very unethical and corrupt behavior, allegedly, something she probably didn’t expect to happen. Her current term ends on December 31, 2024. She apparently thought that her high-profile case against the former president would be her ticket to re-election. Now there are calls for her to recuse herself from the case.
It’s an ugly intersection of professional malpractice and personal soap opera. As it turns out, Fani hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, to serve as a special prosecutor in the case in which Trump is a co-defendent. Not only did she hire him though he had no experience in this kind of case…