Trump weighs in on ‘Fani Scandal’ after Willis hearing
Former President Trump called for the criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia to end after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) took the witness stand Thursday amid allegations about her relationship with a prosecutor.
“They’re talking about the Georgia ‘Fani Scandal’ all over the World. In fact, by far, it is trending #1. I can’t believe the Georgia State Judiciary, or the Governor, can be happy about this humiliating embarrassment,” Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after midnight Friday.
Trump, who spent much of Thursday posting Fox News coverage of the hearing, claimed “legal pundits, experts, and scholars” are in agreement the case against him “should be immediately terminated and permanently erased from everyone’s memory.”
“The stench of what has happened should shame Georgia no longer,” he added. “It should get back to GREATNESS, and FAST!!!”
In a separate post, he called Willis’s actions “A GIANT SCAM.”
Willis surprisingly took the stand during a frenetic and explosive hearing Thursday to determine whether her office should be disqualified from continuing its 2020 election interference prosecution of Trump and his allies.
Willis sought to defend her once-romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, clashing face-to-face with defense attorneys whom she and Wade both accused of lying.
“These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020,” Willis said, waving out at the crowd. “I’m not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.”
Trump asked later Friday if anyone believes Willis “paid cash to her ‘lover’ whenever they took expensive ‘trips’ together.”
“Really? Where did she get the CASH? Pretty weak questioning yesterday!!! I guess they don’t want to insult her. No way she can explain any of this corruption away!!!” he said on Truth Social.
The hearing was spurred by a motion filed by Trump campaign operative Michael Roman last month that claimed Willis and Wade’s relationship rendered the 98-page racketeering indictment “fatally defective.”
Trump himself has repeatedly personally attacked Willis, calling her a “racist” and a “rabid partisan” in social media posts as Willis investigated him.
Several of Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia case previously reached plea deals with prosecutors, including attorneys Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro. They were among the group of attorneys pursuing unfounded claims of election fraud in the wake of the 2020 election.
Updated at 10:25 a.m. ET
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