Fulton County DA Fani Willis plans to take a lead role in trying Trump case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: March 29, 2024 / 6:34 PM EDT


Two weeks after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis survived a bid by defense lawyers to have her disqualified from the Georgia election interference case, she has all but taken over the case personally, focusing intensely on legal strategy and getting her team in fighting form for trial.

In a significant move along these lines, according to a source close to her, Willis has decided to play a leading courtroom role herself in the sprawling conspiracy case against Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants.

"I think there are efforts to slow down the train, but the train is coming," Willis said with characteristic bravado during impromptu remarks to CNN as she was leaving a Georgia Easter egg hunt on March 23. "I guess my greatest crime is that I had a relationship with a man, but that's not something I find embarrassing in any way," she added.

Willis had just endured a lengthy legal soap opera after lawyers for one of the defendants filed a motion on Jan. 8 alleging that she had a clandestine romantic relationship with outside lawyer Nathan Wade, whom she had tapped to lead the case. Over two months of withering testimony and legal argument, Willis had intimate details of her private life publicly aired, her judgment and integrity questioned, and saw the most high-stakes prosecution of her career teeter on the brink of collapse because of an indiscretion in her personal life.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fulton-county-da-fani-willis-trump-case-georgia/

[Bucky]

1. That's legit

When you're getting over a breakup it's usually a good thing to keep busy.

[moniss]

2. I hope the guy I heard arguing the

motions hearing for her is not the one who will do the trial. He may be skilled in other areas but he sounded disjointed and unsure of what he was arguing. If I have the right guy identified. I saw the younger looking guy with a beard. He sounded so tentative I had to drop off after just a minute or so.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Because this is a HUGE RICO case

with what are now 15 defendants left (where 4 already got plea deals and some other minor characters might finally opt for that at some point), there will certainly be a "team" and they will be assigned to what will probably be broken down into "several" trials.

[dem4decades]

4. It's personal now, drag their asses' through the ringer.

[twodogsbarking]

5. I'm waving my Fani flag.

[Bayard]

6. You've pissed her off now!

Go get them, Fani!

[Karma13612]

7. I liked the person

Who argued for the state the other day regarding the First Amendment Free speech hearing. He was great. Very succinct and sounded very confident in his speech. Also, the CONTENT of his argument came across as clear and easy to understand.

Fingers crossed he will be appearing again.