Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Saturday that her case against former President Donald Trump has not been delayed despite the distraction caused by her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to work on the case.
Willis made a public appearance at an Easter egg hunt in College Park, Georgia, where she spoke to CNN about her reputation following the hearings to determine whether she would be allowed to remain on the case. Earlier this year, it was revealed that she had a “personal relationship” with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who has since resigned from the case to allow Willis to continue working on it.
“I don’t feel like my reputation needs to be reclaimed,” Willis said. “Let’s say it for the record: I’m not embarrassed by anything I’ve done. I guess my greatest crime is I had a relationship with a man, but that’s not something that I find embarrassing in any way, and I know that I have not done anything that’s illegal”
The district attorney brushed off the idea of a delay in the trial because, throughout the investigation into her personal life, she said her team was working on the case against Trump “in the way that it needed to be done.”
“I don’t feel like we’ve been slowed down at all,” Willis said. “I do think there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming.”
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump last year, alleging that the former president and his 18 co-defendants “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome” of the 2020 presidential election in the state. He faces 10 felony charges in that case after Judge Scott McAfee ruled earlier this month to dismiss three of them. A trial date has not been set.
