Legal analysts have praised Donald Trump’s legal team for seeking new testimony from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the former president’s election fraud case in Georgia.
Trump’s lawyers hired a phone records analyst to prove that prosecutor Nathan Wade stayed over at Willis’ home long before she hired him to lead the election fraud case.
They are trying to demonstrate that Willis hired Wade because they were in a relationship, suggesting she should recuse herself from the Trump case. Newsweek reached out to Trump’s lawyer and Willis’ office for comment.
Fani Willis (Credits: Fox News)
Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, and 18 co-defendants are accused of conspiring to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election win in Georgia. Trump has pleaded not guilty, claiming the case is politically motivated as he is the likely GOP nominee for the White House.
Trump’s lawyers filed a supplemental brief on Friday, asking the trial judge to review new information, including an affidavit from private investigator Charles Mittelstadt, who analyzed Wade’s cellphone location data.
Mittelstadt’s analysis showed that in 2021, Wade arrived at Willis’ home late at night twice and left in the early-morning hours, once in September and once in November.
In a new filing on Sunday afternoon, Trump’s lawyers argued against Willis’ statement from Friday, in which she said that the records do not prove the content of communications between Wade and her, or that they were ever in the same place during the times listed.
