Fulton County DA Fani Willis says despite efforts to slow down Trump case, ‘the train is coming’
ATLANTA– Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Saturday that the election interference prosecution against Donald Trump has not been delayed by proceedings over her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor she hired for the case.
“I don’t feel like we’ve slowed down at all,” Willis told CNN in an interview. “I think there are attempts to slow the train down, but the train is coming.”
Her latest comments come as attorneys continue to make claims about her handling of a sweeping prosecution against the former president and current presumptive Republican Party nominee. Trump faces four felony charges — including separate federal and state cases over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost to President Joe Biden — but has fought to have the cases delayed and dismissed, arguing that political opponents have wrongly targeted him.
Willis spoke days after a Georgia judge allowed lawyers for Trump’s co-defendants to appeal his ruling that they could stay on the case following the withdrawal of special counsel Nathan Wade. This allows attorneys to strengthen allegations of impropriety between Wade and Willis.
Defense attorneys claim Willis hired Wade to profit from Trump’s prosecution through their romantic relationship. Supreme Court Justice Scott McAfee said there was not enough evidence to prove these claims, but reprimanded Willis for what he called a “massive error in judgment.”
Willis told CNN that she felt her reputation did not need to be repaired and that she had not done anything embarrassing.
“I’m not ashamed of what I did,” Willis said. “I think my biggest crime is having a relationship with a man, but I don’t find that embarrassing in any way.”
Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University who is following the case, criticized her comments in a post on X.
“If I were Fani Willis, I would just not talk to the media at all right now, just out of an abundance of caution,” Kreis said.