President Donald Trump’s legal team has strongly criticized Fani Willis, the Democratic prosecutor from Georgia, accusing her of spreading a blatant falsehood about her critics. Willis, who is leading a politically motivated campaign against Trump and others, initially responded to allegations of impropriety and misconduct with a speech that was disguised as a church sermon. In this statement, she directly accused her accusers of having racist motivations in their criticisms of her actions and decisions related to the case.
However, she later claimed in a court filing that her church speech had nothing to do with the case or her racist critics. In response, Trump has filed his own document, labeling Willis as “disingenuous” and accusing her of lying to the court about her racially charged remarks. The dispute revolves around allegations that Willis improperly hired a special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, with whom she was romantically involved, and further benefited financially from this arrangement through taxpayer-funded expenses.
Trump’s co-defendant, Michael Romans, has also filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him, which included the bombshell allegations of impropriety and misconduct against Willis. She indirectly addressed these allegations in a lengthy speech that doubled as a sermon and public prayer at a historically black church in Atlanta.
In her inflammatory remarks, Willis repeatedly referenced the case and injected race into the conversation by attributing racial motivations to the defendants and their attorneys who had made the misconduct allegations against her. Notably, she emphasized the race of the “black man” she hired while conveniently omitting any mention of the improper relationship aspect of the complaints.
President Trump’s attorneys said:
“The State first claims that the DA’s extrajudicial public comments in her well-publicized MLK holiday weekend church speech ‘neither reference this case nor these defendants ….’
“Nothing could be further from the truth.”
The reply motion noted that the defendants and their attorneys had “led the exposure of, and the outcry about, the inappropriate personal relationship between the DA and Special Assistant DA Wade, and the DA’s improper hiring of Wade.”
“Thus, who else would the DA be repeatedly and predominantly referring to in her use of the words ‘they’ and ‘them’ and ‘themselves,’ other than the defendants via disparagement and condemnation of their defense counsel?” the filing continued.
“Those references are just as clear as the fact that her unnamed reference to the hired ‘black man’ could only be Wade.”
“From the day of the speech forward, not a single reporter, journalist, or media outlet has expressed the slightest bit of doubt that the DA’s racially invective comments were in direct response to Roman’s allegations in his court filing and were directed at the defendants and defense counsel,” Trump’s motion asserted.
“Stated succinctly, the DA’s position in its filed response is preposterous and disingenuous at best, and an outright lie at worst,” the motion adds.
“It is an after-the-fact futile attempt to mislead this Court.”
Trump’s attorney said of the reply motion, “President Trump’s filing focuses on the DA’s disingenuous, untrue claim that her racially charged MLK holiday weekend ‘church speech’ was somehow not aimed at this case, the defendants, or defense counsel.”
“Her claim utterly lacks plausibility,” he continued.
“Our filing argues persuasively that, contrary to the DA’s response, Georgia law authorizes and compels the disqualification of the DA for her extrajudicial prosecutorial comments in violation of her special ethical responsibilities as a prosecutor.”
The attorney added:
“Once again, President Trump respectfully asserts that the DA’s egregious misconduct requires the dismissal of the indictment and her disqualification.”
