Former President Trump on Tuesday insisted the case against him and several others in Georgia over efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results should be dropped after another defendant filed a motion accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) of improper behavior.
“You had a very big event yesterday as you saw in Georgia where the district attorney is totally compromised. The case has to be dropped,” Trump said after a hearing in Washington, D.C., over presidential immunity arguments in a separate, federal 2020 election interference case against him. “They went after 18 or 20 people. … She was out of her mind. Now it turns out that case is totally compromised.”
“It’s illegal. What she did is illegal. So we’ll let the state handle that, but what a sad situation it is,” Trump added.
Mike Roman, a Philadelphia-based political operative who served as Trump’s director of Election Day operations on his 2020 campaign and faces seven criminal charges, claimed in court filings Monday that Willis and a top prosecutor in the case are engaged in an “improper” romantic relationship, making the indictment “fatally defective.”
Roman did not provide any hard evidence of the accusations. His lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, claimed in court papers that “sources close” to both Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade indicated the pair are involved in an “ongoing, personal and romantic relationship.”
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The Hill has reached out to the district attorney’s office and Roman’s lawyer for comment.
Trump and his campaign have for months attacked Willis, painting her as a radical political operative and accusing her of interfering in the 2024 election by bringing charges against the former president.
Trump was indicted in August and charged with 13 counts stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. He is facing a separate, federal criminal case in D.C. over his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
The former president appeared in court in the nation’s capital Tuesday as his team argued he has presidential immunity and therefore cannot be prosecuted on charges related to the 2020 election.