The judge presiding over the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants said Friday he hopes to rule on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the case in the next two weeks
The judge said at the end of the over three-hour hearing that it’s “been very much made clear by the argument made today there are several legal issues to sort through” and “several factual determinations I have to make.”
“I will be taking the time to make sure I give this case the full consideration it is due. I hope to have an answer for everyone within the next two weeks,” McAfee said. Meanwhile, Willis’s office has continued to defend her and Wade’s integrity, asserting that the romance was never a conflict of interest nor rises to the level of disqualification.
The summations follow weeks of explosive court filings and salacious hearings where defense attorneys sought to prove Willis has financially benefited from Wade’s employment with her office. Once arguments conclude, Judge Scott McAfee is tasked with determining whether to allow the district attorney’s office to continue prosecuting Trump — or, to throw the case into limbo by booting them from it.
McAfee previously said the allegations against Willis and Wade “could result” in their disqualification if evidence shows an “actual conflict of interest or the appearance of one.”
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Willis and Wade have maintained that they started dating in early 2022 and broke up in summer 2023 — the entire romance occurring after Wade’s hiring in November 2021. But defense attorneys insist Willis and Wade began seeing each other romantically after the 2019 municipal conference where they first met.