Allegations against Trump prosecutor could be enough to dismiss case: lawyer
January 31, 2024
The extramarital affair allegations involving Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis actually could result in the dismissal of Georgia racketeering charges against Donald Trump, according to a conservative legal analyst.
Willis is accused of engaging in a romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was married at the time but is now going through a bitter divorce, and conservative attorney Phil Holloway explained how the district attorney's actions could end the case against Trump, reported Newsweek.
"If it can be proven she violated the Constitution in the way of substitute due process claims, that she was fundamentally unfair in how she carried out her prosecutorial duties, then that could result in a dismissal," Holloway told Fox News host Harris Faulkner.
One of Trump's co-defendants, Mike Roman, filed a motion three weeks ago claiming that Willis and Wade were romantically linked during the investigation and had financially benefitted through luxury travel and other perks during the prosecution at the expense of taxpayers, and Holloway argued that could be enough to weaken the case.
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"Did she spend taxpayer money in a way that was designed to further her own personal interest in the form of allegedly getting a kickback after steering a no-bid contract to her alleged lover, or did she also perhaps use money in a way that advances a political agenda by using federal funds in the form of grants that funded travel by Nathan Wade or perhaps other people to communicate with the White House and do that sort of investigative technique that really, I think, is probably a bit too far," Holloway said.
"Probably improper to bring Joe Biden's White House into this at all. So these are the questions that are raised."