'Lost control': Ex-prosecutor slams judge in Trump case for 'taking shots' at Fani Willis
Judge McAfee is "losing control," according to one former prosecutor.
McAfee, the jurist overseeing the case in which Fani Willis is prosecuting Donald Trump for allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 election, on Friday ruled that Willis couldn't keep her former boyfriend, Nathan Wade,- on the high-profile case. McAfee has been under a steady assault from conservatives who think Willis should already have been booted.
Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu weighed in via an opinion piece for The Daily Beast.
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"Judge Scott McAfee found no legal reason to disqualify DA Willis from prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia, but he took shots at her character anyway," Wu said.
The legal expert compared McAfee to the widely criticized judge in O.J. Simpson's criminal case.
"It also puts Judge McAfee in the same territory as Judge Lance Ito—when it comes to losing control of a high-profile case," Wu wrote on Friday. "Judge McAfee, at age 35, is even younger than Ito was during the O.J. trial and has only been on the bench a year. His inexperience, and perhaps his mindset as a white male Republican member of the Federalist Society, have begun to show."
Wu added that "McAfee gradually lost control of the disqualification hearing process."
"He allowed the hearing to become an unfettered spectacle of smear, allowing Trump lawyers to even disparage Willis’ father with leering references to him as 'daddy' and comparing Willis and Wade to love-struck teenagers texting," the attorney explained.
In the end, Wu argues, the process produced "a poorly written, poorly reasoned ruling."
"McAfee had promised the prosecution and defense that he would have his decision out today and that 'no ruling of mine is ever going to be based on politics. I’m going to be following the law as best I understand it,'" Wu wrote.