Georgia DA Fani Willis Hired Former Romantic Partner to Lead Trump Prosecution, Co-Defendant Alleges

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis appointed a former romantic partner to lead the prosecution against the former president and his associates, a former Trump campaign official and co-defendant alleged in a court filing late Monday.

“The district attorney and the special prosecutor have been seen in private together in and about the Atlanta area and believed to have co-habited in some form or fashion at a location owned by neither of them,” the court document submitted by Michael Roman’s legal representatives argues. Roman served briefly as a special assistant and researcher to President Trump.

The submission does not offer any explicit proof of the DA’s connection to special prosecutor Nathan Wade, but instead claims “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed they had an ongoing, personal relationship.” Wade was paid over half a million dollars throughout his involvement in the Trump election-interference case, which Willis has overseen and authorized.

“That does not mean that her decisions were in fact improperly motivated,” NYU law school professor Stephen Gillers told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution explaining the allegations. “It does mean that the public and the state, as her client, could not have the confidence in the independent judgment that her position required her to exercise.”

Rowan’s legal team also sought to question Wade’s experience overseeing such a trial. “The research reveals that the special prosecutor never tried a felony RICO case. The State of Georgia and the City of Atlanta has several lawyers who specialize in the prosecuting and defending RICO cases,” the filing reads. “Despite having access to these resources, why would the district attorney, instead, appoint someone who has never tried a felony RICO case, particularly in a case with such national significance as this one?”

In mid August, the former president and over a dozen associates were indicted by a Georgia grand jury over allegations that they sought to overturn the 2020 presidential-election results. Trump was charged with conspiracy to commit forgery, filing false documents, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer, and violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Other notable defendants named in the nearly 100-page indictment include former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and members of Trump’s legal team, notably: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell.

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment reads. “That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.”

Prosecutors allege that Trump and his allies were “engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.”

In late August, Trump flew to Fulton County Jail, where he was booked, fingerprinted, and photographed for a mug shot. “I have to start getting ready to head down to Atlanta, Georgia” to “get ARRESTED by a Radical Left, Lowlife District Attorney, Fani Willis,” Trump said Thursday on his social-media platform Truth Social. “Arrest time: 7:30 p.m.”