“District Attorney Willis has no financial conflict of interest that constitutes a legal basis for disqualification; District Attorney Willis has no personal conflict of interest that justifies her disqualification personally or that of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office; The attacks on Special Prosecutor Wade’s qualifications are factually inaccurate, unsupported, and malicious, in addition to providing no basis whatsoever to dismiss the indictment or disqualify Special Prosecutor Wade,” writes Fulton DA Fani Willis in her first legal response to fat former President Trump and his minions alleging that she had an improper relationship with her deputy Nathan Wade.

“District Attorney Willis has made no public statements that warrant disqualification or judicial inquiry; and criticism of the process utilized to appoint and compensate the special prosecutors in this case demonstrates basic misunderstandings of rudimentary county and state regulations, and provides no legal basis for dismissal of the indictment or disqualification of any member of the prosecution,” Willis continued in the filing. Note how she doesn’t deny having any relationship with Wade – that was pretty obvious early on – but she’s also putting her cards down.

It was fucking stupid and it does ding her politically, but the fact that Team Orange’s best hope for taking her down lies in claiming that her office’s payments to Wade – which he then spent on vacations they took together is some kind of self-dealing – should tell you that they don’t really have shit and this was just a political maneuver to try to discredit Willis and Wade ahead of the trial. Also important is Wade’s assertion that their relationship didn’t begin until after Willis had hired him in 2022 which, if true, undercuts the appearance of impropriety the MAGA clowns are trying to play up.