Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling into whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the case into former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference sparked outrage from MAGA members on Friday.
McAfee ruled that Willis could choose between staying on the case herself or keeping attorney Nathan Wade as a prosecutor. Attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendants argued the relationship between Willis and Wade should lead to her disqualification, alleging the pair benefited from taxpayer dollars. Willis, however, maintained that she engaged in no wrongdoing and that their relationship began only after he was hired.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson said during a livestream discussing the ruling that it was “not the result we were looking for.”
“We were looking for total and complete disqualification,” he said.
Conservative pundit Tim Pool wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter, “This judge is a coward.”
It would be some proper justice for the Justice Dept to step in and say “We agree, Willis has shown a conflict of interest, and as a result, Jack Smith will now be the prosecutor.”
Try to get it thrown on a technicality, get an even harsher prosecutor