Defense attorneys for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case pulled out all the stops during closing arguments Friday in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ ethics hearing, torching the Black Panther’s daughter for her various alleged improprieties, abuses of power, and case-compromising public remarks.
Revisiting the chief claims raised in their
previous motions to disqualify, defense attorneys stressed that Willis personally benefited from her clandestine romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the man she ultimately appointed special prosecutor and whose fat checks she ultimately approved. They argued further that she prejudiced potential jurors against the defendants and perpetrated a “fraud on this court.”
Craig Gillen, a defense attorney for Trump co-defendant David Shafer, echoed Trump lawyer Steve Sadow’s suggestion that Willis injected race into the case through her
remarks at the Bethel AME Church in Atlanta. Gillen also accused Willis and Wade of “systematic misconduct,” stressing “they need to go.”
Willis arrived in time to watch Adam Abbate, an attorney for the DA’s office, downplay her racially-charged attacks and argue that disqualification requires proof of a conflict of interest, not just the appearance of a conflict…
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