President-elect Trump on Thursday celebrated the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) from the election interference case against him, arguing it should be the end of the prosecution over his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
"The case has to be thrown out because it was started corruptly by an incompetent prosecutor who received millions of dollars through her boyfriend — who received it from her — and then they went on cruises all the time," Trump told Fox News Digital after a Georgia appeals court removed Willis from the case.
"Therefore, the case is entirely dead," Trump added. "Everybody should receive an apology, including those wonderful patriots who have been caught up in this for years."
The three-judge panel described Willis’s relationship with ex-special prosecutor Nathan Wade as a “significant appearance of impropriety” in ruling that she be booted from the case.
The court declined to outright dismiss Trump’s indictment, but disqualifying Willis’s office throws the future of the case — already complicated by Trump’s impending return to the White House — further into doubt.
Willis charged Trump and more than a dozen of his allies last summer for allegedly entering a months-long unlawful conspiracy to overturn President Biden’s 2020 victory in Georgia.
The decision leaves open a theoretical possibility another prosecutor could take over the case, but the path forward remains precarious. Trump’s legal team has separately sought to dismiss all his criminal prosecutions on the grounds that he is the president-elect.
Special counsel Jack Smith has wound down the federal cases against Trump, including one in Washington, over his attempts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
