Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis dodged a bullet: Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to indict Donald Trump and 18 others on RICO charges, and with whom she was allegedly having an affair, settled his divorce case. She therefore need not testify about whether they used the fees she paid him to take luxury vacations.
But there are other bullets coming.
The judge in the RICO case has ordered that she respond by today, February 2, to defense motions that she and Wade be disqualified and the case dismissed. She is under investigation by the Georgia legislature and the House Judiciary Committee, both controlled by Republicans.
A new toxic allegation has emerged: A whistleblower claims Willis fired her and had her escorted out of the DA’s office by armed guards after she complained about misuse of funds by a close Willis adviser.
Willis has defiantly asserted that she will not withdraw from the Trump case or resign from office. This prosecution has often been described as “sprawling,” and now so are its scandals.