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Fani Willis vowed NOT to date staff and claimed it’s ‘inappropriate’ in 2020 interview – as she now faces hearing for ‘hiring her lover’ as top prosecutor in Trump election interference case
- Fani Willis vowed never to date her employees in a resurfaced 2020 interview
- In the interview Willis said ‘I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me’
- It comes as the Fulton County District Attorney faces a hearing for hiring her lover to work on the Trump interference interference case
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed never to date her employees in a resurfaced 2020 interview, as she now faces a hearing for hiring her lover to work on the Trump interference interference case.
Willis, in charge of bringing the case against former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case, is accused of having a secret relationship with Nathan Wade, whom she appointed as a special prosecutor in the high-profile case.
‘I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me,’ Willis told the Patricia Crayton Show while campaigning for district attorney.
‘We are at a place in society where things happen in people’s relationships — husbands and wives sometimes, there are outside relationships.
I don’t think that that’s what the community is concerned about. Although there might be a moral breaking in that,’ she continued.
Adding: ‘I think that what citizens are really, really concerned about is if you chose to have inappropriate contact with employees,’ she continued.
‘There’s nothing I can say on it other than that it is distracting, it is certainly inappropriate for the No. 1 law officer in this state, and it really really saddens me,’ she said.
Willis added it would be ‘very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community have to pay for any of those lawsuits.’
The Fulton County District attorney will appear before Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on February 15 over allegations that she had an improper relationship with attorney Nathan Wade.
Atlanta attorney Wade was paid $654,000 to help in the sprawling probe into the former president’s efforts to overturn the election, according to bombshell court filings.
Willis hired Atlanta attorney Nathan Wade as an ‘anti-corruption special prosecutor’ to investigate Trump’s alleged election interference.
In a stunning court filing, Michael Roman, one of the former president’s co-defendants in the ‘fake electors scheme,’ alleges Willis was in a personal relationship with Wade…
