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Former President Donald Trump’s defense team filed a motion on Monday seeking to dismiss and disqualify embattled Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election fraud case. Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the case, asked the court to immediately remove Willis. The filing comes days after the judge overseeing the case ruled she could stay on as long as special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped aside, following the revelation of their romantic relationship. Sadow claims in his motion that action does not go far enough. “President Trump and seven defendants have jointly filed a motion requesting the Court...

Former President Trump and several of his co-defendants are asking Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee for permission to appeal after he ruled against dismissing the case and disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis. McAfee last week denied a full dismissal of the case against Trump and Willis’ disqualification. Instead, he demanded that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade resign from the case. McAfee warned that without Wade’s withdrawal, Willis would be disqualified from prosecuting Trump. Wade withdrew within hours of the judge's order.Four co-defendants had accused Willis of having an "improper" affair with Wade, whom she hired to help...

Fani Willis and the Fulton County D.A.’s office now have a personal stake in prosecuting the defendants who exposed Willis’s affair.Fani Willis and the Fulton County district attorney’s office can remain in charge of the prosecution of Donald Trump and his Republican co-defendants so long as Willis’s former lover resigns, presiding Judge Scott McAfee ruled Friday. Within hours of the decision, Nathan Wade—now Willis’s ex—exited the case. While McAfee declared that half-measure solved the problem of an “appearance of impropriety,” the court’s reasoning established that true justice requires the removal of Willis and the entire Fulton County D.A.’s office.Judge McAfee’s...

Fani Willis’ lover Nathan Wade withdrew from the Trump lawfare RICO case after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Friday ruled District Attorney Fani Wills can continue her RICO case against Trump and his associates. In his 23-page decision, Judge McAfee ordered Fani Willis to address the “appearance of impropriety” before the case can move forward. McAfee ruled Willis can stay on the case but must fire her lover Nathan Wade, the top prosecutor she hired to hunt down Trump. Later Friday afternoon Nathan Wade resigned from the RICO case. “Although the court found that ‘the defendants failed...

Reactions from Georgia lawmakers poured in on Friday after a judge ruled that embattled Fulton County DA Fani Willis could remain on the case investigating alleged election interference by former President Donald Trump. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a ruling Friday that Willis, who was accused of an improper romantic relationship that she attempted to cover up with special counsel Nathan Wade, could remain on the case if she fired Wade which prompted pushback from Georgia Republicans. "The ruling by Judge McAfee seems to clearly identify impropriety between the DA and Mr. Wade," Georgia Republican State Rep....

VIDEOA lot of people were upset when they first found out about Judge Scott McAfee's attempt to split the difference by ruling that Fani Willis could stay on the Fulton Country case against Trump as long as Nathan Wade was dumped as prosecutor. That was my own first reaction. However, digging into this a bit more it now appears that although McAfee chickened out, he appears to have done the Trump defense team a favor as judged by the panicked reaction by extreme Trump hater Andrew Weissmann who is now begging for Willis to LEAVE the case. His reaction is...

Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee made his decision on whether District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants on corruption charges. McAfee ruled that Willis can continue to prosecute the former president and his co-defendants, but he has given the state multiple options to handle the case. All options involve Nathan Wade stepping away from the team. “The prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options,” McAfee wrote in his decision. “The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office,...

ATLANTA (AP) — The judge in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others said Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step aside from Trump case or remove the special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship before case can proceed. Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade testified at a hearing last month that they had engaged in a romantic relationship, but they rejected the idea that Willis improperly benefited from it as lawyers for Trump and some of his co-defendants alleged. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said he found the “allegations...

Judgement Day has finally arrived for Fani Willis. Judge Scott McAfee, who presided over the Fulton County district attorney's disqualification proceedings, has ruled that Willis must step away from the Trump prosecution or cut ties with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, the private-practice attorney she hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump and with whom she had an undisclosed affair. Advertisement According to the 23-page ruling, McAfee ordered, "[W]ere the case allowed to proceed unchanged, the prima facie concerns raised by the Defendants would persist. As the District Attorney testified, her relationship with Wade has only 'cemented' after these motions and...

If Willis is removed, it would hobble her case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants. A Georgia judge ruled that Willis will not be disqualified from prosecuting the racketeering case against Trump and several co-defendants — but because of the appearance of impropriety she or the special prosecutor she had a relationship with must step down from the case. The choice is likely to be an easy one: If Willis were to remove herself, the case would come to a halt, but having Wade leave the case will ensure it continues without further delay.

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Georgia Judge Scott McAfee decreed on Friday that Fulton County Fani Willis need not be disqualified from her case against President Donald Trump, though for the case to continue, either her office (including her) or her former lover and counsel Nathan Wade must withdraw. The judge noted the “appearance of impropriety” found by Trump co-defendant Mike Roman, which has led to weeks of stunning moments in a Georgia courtroom.It is anticipated Willis will opt for Wade’s dismissal as her own exit would stall the proceedings indefinitely.

Judge Scott McAfee has let this ridiculous Fulton County prosecution of Donald Trump go on this long, it doesn’t look like he’ll stop it now.Before the end of the week, we’re supposed to know whether Georgia Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis’s ridiculous street-gang prosecution of Donald Trump and associates will be killed off before it goes to trial. But for that to happen, it’s going to take an extraordinary act of bravery from Judge Scott McAfee and, well, the record so far is that he’s not exactly Rambo in a robe.McAfee self-imposed the Friday deadline for his decision on the...

A Georgia judge has partially sided with former President Donald Trump by dismissing some of the charges in the bogus election interference case. It can be recalled that the bogus racketeering case in Atlanta against former President Donald J. Trump and others has been assigned to Scott F. McAfee, a recently appointed Fulton County Superior Court judge who once served under Soros-funded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Soros-funded District Attorney Fani Willis returned ten junk indictments against President Donald Trump for questioning the 2020 stolen election—a right protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. President Donald Trump, alongside...

Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee has dropped six counts in the Georgia criminal election interference case against former President Donald Trump and five other defendants, writing: "The lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned opinion, fatal." (1 minute and 26 seconds video in the link below) https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1767927694996766872

The Fulton County judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 election case dismissed some charges against former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, although other charges remain. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said three of the charges against Trump must be quashed, per The Associated Press.

Why did judge McAfee reprimand DA Fani Willis during her testimony? What's wrong with Willis' statements? Why do they seem unclear and stalling? To answer these questions, this in-depth language analysis looks at heated and revealing excerpts from Willis' testimony to the Fulton County court. In these excerpts, Willis is questioned about whether people in her office knew about her relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade. The analysis uses concepts such as 'distancing language' and 'weak denials' to find out how Willis' word choice affects the reliability of her testimony. This video has an educational purpose. You can use many of...

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek police say a man tried to steal Xanax pills from a Kroger pharmacy at knifepoint after coming in for what he said was a walk-in COVID-19 vaccine appointment. He tried to rob the same pharmacy two days in a row, according to police. According to the Johns Creek Police Department, Steven Albert went to the Kroger on State Bridge Road around 2:35 p.m. on March 6. Albert gave the pharmacy employee his name and date of birth and “was accepted for the vaccination,” but once he was in the vaccination room, alone with the...

Megyn Kelly is joined by attorneys Dave Aronberg and Mike Davis to discuss the Fani Willis disqualification case Judge Scott McAfee speaking out in a radio interview, whether he'll rule differently now that there's a primary challenger.

Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released his January 6 Initial Findings Report on Monday, March 11. Rep. Loudermilk is the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman. Chairman Loudermilk added this on today’s report: “For nearly two years former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Select Committee promoted hearsay and cherry-picked information to promote its political goal – to legislatively prosecute former President Donald Trump,” said Chairman Loudermilk. “It was no surprise that the Select Committee’s final report focused primarily on former President Trump and his supporters, not the security failures and reforms needed to ensure the United States Capitol is...