‘The Train Is Coming’: Fani Willis Insists Election Interference Case Against Trump Is All on Track
Ms. Willis says that her reputation remains intact and that she hasn’t done anything embarrassing.
The District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, Fani Willis, says the election interference prosecution against President Trump hasn’t been delayed by proceedings over her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor she hired for the case.
“I don’t feel like we have been slowed down at all,” Ms. Willis told CNN in an interview that aired Saturday. “I think there are efforts to slow down the train, but the train is coming.”
Her latest comments come as defense attorneys continue to press claims about her handling of a sprawling prosecution against the former president and current GOP presumptive nominee. Mr. Trump faces four felony indictments — including separate federal and state cases for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost to President Biden — but has fought to delay and dismiss the cases, arguing that political opponents are wrongly targeting him.
Ms. Willis spoke days after a Georgia judge allowed attorneys for Mr. Trump’s codefendants to appeal his ruling that she could stay on the case after the withdrawal of the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade. That may allow defense attorneys to amplify allegations of impropriety between Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis.
Defense attorneys have alleged Ms. Willis hired Mr. Wade to profit from the Trump prosecution through their romantic relationship. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove those claims but rebuked Ms. Willis for what he called a “tremendous lapse in judgment.”
Ms. Willis said that she didn’t think her reputation needed to be reclaimed and that she hadn’t done anything embarrassing.
“I’m not embarrassed by anything I’ve done,” Ms. Willis said. “I guess my greatest crime is that I had a relationship with a man, but that’s not something I find embarrassing in any way.”
Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor who’s been following the case, criticized her comments in a post on X. “If I were Fani Willis, I would simply not talk to the media at all at this point just out of an abundance of caution,” Mr. Kreis said.
