LIVE WATCH LIVE: Will Fulton DA Fani Willis be disqualified from Trump case?!
Here we go! Context: The judge presiding over the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump on Thursday began hearing misconduct allegations that could lead to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ disqualification. Attorneys scrambled to determine who among the witnesses was present and prepared to testify in the highly anticipated hearing, which is focused on whether Willis personally benefited from a relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case, when the relationship began, and whether it’s continuing. Trump and some of his co-defendants in the case have claimed that a conflict of interest caused by Willis’s relationship with special counsel Nathan Wade is grounds for ousting the prosecutors or dismissing the charges against them. But quickly, lawyers for the defendants encountered difficulties when Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner who briefly represented him in his divorce and a key witness, said he was advised by the bar that he could not reveal anything he saw or learned. That witness, an attorney for Trump co-defendant Mike Roman had earlier claimed, could testify to the relationship beginning earlier than acknowledged by Wade in a sworn affidavit. Willis acknowledged this month that she had a personal relationship with Wade, but she denied that it was improper. In his sworn statement, Wade stated he had “no personal relationship” with Willis before the case or when he started as one of the prosecutors. Willis failed to quash a subpoena for her to testify under oath filed Monday with Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who said it was “possible” she could be disqualified from prosecuting the case.