Fulton County District Attorney spoke out over the weekend for the first time after testifying in Fulton County Superior Court.
On Saturday, Willis accepted a Black History Achievement Award at Atlanta Berean Church. The ceremony came just days after Willis testified about an affair she had with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade.
"So when I was invited here, it was really heartwarming, because to me, this is family, because family helps you when you're up and when you're down," Willis remarked. "There are things going on recently that I won't talk about, but everybody did not embrace me during those times, and Berean has continued to embrace me."
The district attorney said people had sent her scripture as she coped with allegations of a conflict of interest in Donald Trump's election interference case.
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"The Scripture they keep sending me is, no weapon formed against you shall prosper," she explained. "I need y'all to hear me, though. They did not say the weapons will not form."
"And that's the part I didn't hear until recently," Willis continued. "Just because they won't prosper, it doesn't mean that they won't form, even if you feel like everything you are doing in your life is the right thing, and you're making mistakes all along the way, but you're trying."
"You should not think that those weapons will not form."
Willis admitted to engaging in a personal relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to lead her election subversion case against Donald Trump earlier this month.
But the district attorney denied her relationship with lead investigator Nathan Wade had tainted the case in a filing that called allegations by Trump's co-defendant Mike Roman “meritless” and “salacious." She asked a judge to dismiss motions by the former president and other defendants seeking to disqualify her.
Roman's attorneys say the district attorney was engaged in a “personal, romantic relationship” with Wade, whose law firm has been paid more than $653,000 by Willis’ office since he was hired as an outside prosecutor in November 2021.
Bank records made public in Wade's divorce case show he purchased airline tickets for himself and Willis to Aruba in October 2022 and to San Francisco in April 2023, although it's not clear whether Willis reimbursed him or went on the trips.
The Trump co-defendant claims Willis may have broken the law by hiring Wade and then allowing him to pay for unrelated "vacations around the world," and Roman's filing calls for both prosecutors to be disqualified and charges against him to be dismissed.
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