Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Thursday in an appearance at a church that she has been “attacked and oversexualized,” criticizing the media amid the derailment of her voter fraud case against former President Donald Trump.
Willis spoke to the congregation at Turner Chapel AME Church in Marietta, Georgia, with her former lover, former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, in the audience. according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
That relationship has caused Trump’s election interference case in Georgia to be put on hold, a Georgia appeals court ruled last week, to allow a challenge based on Willis’ affair with Wade.
“Those same media will take advantage of any opportunity to tear down a sister,” Willis told parishioners.
He did not mention the Trump case, his relationship with Wade or the ongoing court battle during the speech, although he did use the speech to criticize an important Trump ally: House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio. .
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Thursday at Turner Chapel AME Church that it has been “attacked and oversexualized” by the media. “Those same media will take advantage of any opportunity to tear down a sister,” Willis told parishioners.
In the audience was her former lover, former special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Willis’ relationship with Wade has caused the Georgia voter fraud case against former President Donald Trump and his allies to be derailed.
He did not identify Jordan by name, but called him a “clown.”
“He’s been there for 17 years and he hasn’t passed any laws,” the Democrat said.
Jordan’s Judiciary Committee has been investigating Willis’ voter fraud case in an attempt to undermine it to the benefit of Trump and the 14 other co-defendants, who include Mark Meadow and Rudy Giuliani, among others.
They were accused of plotting to appoint a slate of fake pro-Trump electors, and Trump was also captured on tape asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to find “11,780 votes,” the exact number needed to overcome the President Joe Biden’s leadership of the Peach Party. State.
That case — like the federal election fraud case brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith and the classified federal documents case in Florida — is now in limbo.
Georgia Judge Scott McAfee ruled to allow Willis to remain in the case after explosive court hearings that detailed lavish vacations and angry disputes over when the relationship with Wade began.
Wade was dismissed from the case.
Trump’s former special counsel Nathan Wade (R) was in the middle of an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins (L) on Wednesday when he was suddenly interrupted by a ‘media consultant’ after he was asked when his relationship with him began. Fani Willis.
The media advisor (left) and Nathan Wade (right) huddled in a corner of the room while CNN kept cameras rolling. When he returned he continued to refuse to give a direct answer about the timing of his romance with Fani Willis.
In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night, Wade said he remained “great friends” with Willis.
When Collins pressed him for additional details about when their romantic relationship began, his media advisor suddenly interrupted the question-and-answer session.
Wade is instructed to remove his microphone and huddle with the gentleman in the corner of the room as CNN cameras continue to roll.
When he returned to his seat, Collins again pressured him as the relationship began.
“I think the public, through testimony and other interviews, has a clear idea that this is clearly just a distraction,” Wade responded.
‘It is not a relevant issue in this case. And I think we should focus more on the facts and the prosecution of the case,” the former special prosecutor added.
The CNN reporter followed up by asking whether Wade’s romantic relationship with Willis jeopardized the case.
“And therein lies the question of why we wouldn’t address the work of the appeals court or some higher court, because it is an issue pending before them,” Wade responded.
He said they should step back and let the higher courts make their decisions, and continued to refuse to say when his relationship with Willis began and ended.
With the Georgia case in disarray and the other two cases against the former president also on hold, only the hush money trial in New York brought Trump to court before the November election.
Late last month, Trump was indicted on all 34 counts of business records fraud over hush money payments given to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.