Several Georgia lawyers thought Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' decision to add special prosecutor Nathan Wade to the legal team prosecuting former President Donald Trump on election racketeering charges was "weird," according to a new report.
Atlanta lawyer Manny Arora, who represented Trump's co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro, told the New Yorker's Charles Bethea that he was puzzled by what he described as Wade's thin resume.
“He really didn’t appear qualified,” Arora told the New Yorker. “Most lawyers in this state aren’t qualified to do it, and here you’re talking about using it in the most unique way in American history—going after a President, and the D.A. hires someone that hasn’t had any serious felony experience, much less something at this level?”
Others in Georgia’s legal community thought's Wade's hiring was "weird," according to the report.
“I’ve been practicing for decades here" one legal professional anonymously told Bethea. "So has my partner. We’d never heard of this guy, and suddenly he’s lead counsel in a monumentally important case."
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Former trial lawyer Norm Eisen argued that the relationship, or subsequent gifts exchanged between Willis and Wade, did not "alter one iota of evidence in this case," he told the New Yorker.
But Eisen had a caveat.
"This has been a sufficiently large kerfuffle that there needs to be some consequences," Eisen said. He believes Wade should step aside “so we can return our focus.”
Read the full report over at The New Yorker.
