Trump prosecutor Fani Willis misconduct claims to be addressed in court

The judge overseeing the Georgia election fraud case against former President Donald Trump has called a hearing over accusations District Attorney Fani Willis and her lead prosecutor had an inappropriate relationship.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee scheduled the hearing for Feb. 15 – and set a deadline for Willis to respond to the allegations by Feb. 2, the Washington Post reported, citing a court order.

The accusation Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade allegedly had an inappropriate relationship was made last week in a filing from Trump co-defendant Mike Roman.

Roman, who served as Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, called for the judge to disqualify the entire prosecution team.

“…The District Attorney chose to appoint her romantic partner, who at all times relevant to this prosecution has been a married man,” the filing claimed.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis (left) is alleged to have a romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade (right) Getty Images

He also accused Wade – a private attorney with the Atlanta-based Wade & Campbell Firm – of using some of the nearly $654,000 in legal fees he collected from the Fulton County DA’s Office for his work on the Trump case to take Willis on vacations to “California, Florida and the Caribbean.”

However, despite Roman’s assertions, the motion offered no solid evidence of the alleged relationship. Wade has been involved in divorce proceedings since 2021, which have to be completed.

In a speech at Big Bethel AME Church on Sunday, Willis called Wade “a great friend and a great lawyer,” along with a “superstar,” but failed to mention him by name. She also suggested the accusations against Wade were race-related.

“Isn’t it them playing the race card when they constantly think I need someone from some other jurisdiction in some other state to tell me how to do a job I’ve been doing almost 30 years?” she said, noting that the other two prosecutors on the case, who are white, emerged unscathed.

Roman his back at that claim, pointing out the other two special prosecutors were “not in a relationship” with Willis.

Roman is of the 14 remaining co-defendants in the high-profile racketeering case that alleges Trump and his associates tampered with the 2020 presidential election.

The Feb. 15 hearing now threatens to publicly humiliate Willis in televised court proceedings – and could perhaps completely derail the investigation, the Washington Post noted.