Ashleigh Merchant, Georgia State Attorney Responding to the news that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been disqualified for her “weak” election interference case against President Donald Trump on Thursday,
The Georgia Court of Appeals complaint declares that There was a “presence of impropriety” stemming from the relationship Willis had with Nathan Wade before hiring him to prosecute the case. As a result, she was disqualified from this case.
Merchant, who revealed the affair months ago, told Fox & Friends on Friday that she believes Willis stuck with the case despite the scandal. Because she doesn’t want anyone to know how “weak” this case is.
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Ashleigh Merchant, the Georgia attorney who exposed the relationship between Fulton County DA Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, responds to the news that Willis has been disqualified from prosecuting President-elect Trump in Georgia. (Fox News Channel)
“She was able to do the right thing early on. Whenever we get everyone’s attention on this and say, ‘Hey, let’s just have an impartial prosecutor handle this case. It’s better to let someone else look at this.’ But I think she was intimidated because her case was so weak. She doesn’t want people to see it,” Merchant told Fox News Channel’s Steve Doocy.
Following Merchant’s disclosure of Willis’ relationship with Wade, Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that Willis must remove herself and her team from the 2020 election interference case or remove Wade as special prosecutor. after decision Wade resigned from his position in the case. Let Willis continue.
At the time, Merchant expressed his desire to see Willis completely removed from the case. By writing in a statement that “As we believe the court should completely disqualify Willis from his employment, This opinion is proof that everything the defense has issued is true, accurate and relevant to issues related to our client’s right to a fair trial.”
Merchant’s goal is to see Willis ousted. It happened months later on a Thursday. After the state appeals court declared that Willis’s “inappropriate presence” constitutes “a rare case in which disqualification has been ordered.” and no other remedy will be sufficient to restore public confidence in its integrity. of these proceedings”
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Fulton County DA Fani Willis testified at a trial earlier this year regarding allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship with a prosecutor she hired to work on her case against former President Trump. (Getty Images)
Merchant said it was a clear decision, telling Doocy that Willis’ inappropriateness is “something you can’t take your eyes off of. And I think that’s what the Court of Appeal said.”
“It’s one of those things you know when you see it,” the merchant continued. “It is inappropriate. So big that they had to be dismissed from the case.”
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After speculating that Willis would be unwilling to leave the case because of his weakness, Merchant expressed her belief that if there was A more “impartial prosecutor” took over the case. They will be dismissed.
“I always thought If impartial prosecutors – people with no financial interest in the case and no political interest in the case – looked at it, they would see things differently, and they would decide that taxpayers, the court The plaintiff should dismiss this case.”
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