Former President Donald Trump filed a court motion calling for the election interference charges against him to be dropped, piggybacking on co-defendant Mike Roman’s claim of a romantic relationship between the prosecutor and the district attorney.
The filing accused the district attorney of making racially charged statements to defend herself and divert attention from alleged misconduct.
Trump’s attorney targeted the district attorney for her alleged misconduct and injection of race into the case, seeking dismissal of the indictment and disqualification of the district attorney and her office.
“President Trump moves the Court to adopt and supplement the above-titled motion filed by co-defendant Roman on January 8, 2024, which alleged, among other misconduct, that an improper intimate personal relationship existed between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney (DA) Willis, that Wade has been paid over $650,000 by the DA, and that taxpayer monies were used by Wade to take the DA on lavish vacations,” the filing stated.
It noted that Willis’ speech was used “to make racially charged, extrajudicial statements designed to defend against, as well as divert and deflect attention from, the alleged misconduct outlined in Roman’s motion.”
She “repeatedly and inappropriately injected race into the case and stoked racial animus by, among other statements, asking God why the defendants were questioning her conduct in hiring a Black man but not his White counterparts, and why the judgment of a Black female Democrat wasn’t as good as White male Republicans,” the filing read.
“Moreover, the DA’s self-serving comments came with the added, sought after, benefit of garnering racially based sympathy for her self-inflicted quagmire,” the filing read.
“The awesome power to prosecute ought never to be manipulated for personal or political profit. In addition to the extensive misconduct alleged in Roman’s motion, the DA did just that in her speech by wrongfully inserting racial animus into this case to publicly denounce and rebuke the defendants, and to defend her personal and political reputation against the numerous and diverse allegations Roman made in his court filing,” it said.
“Although this Court may not have the authority to disbar DA Willis, it certainly does have the power to dismiss the indictment and to disqualify her, the special prosecutors she hired and her office from any further involvement in this case or any related matter, and should do so here,” the filing stated.
Notably, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a criminal misconduct complaint against the district attorney and the prosecutor.
The allegations are expected to delay the case, potentially leading to an appeal.
“I can say with 100 percent confidence that this issue is going to get this case off track,” Georgia State University College of Law professor Clark Cunningham said.
“It already has. … Even if the motion to disqualify isn’t granted, there’s a very, very good chance that it’s going to be appealed. And the appeal is going to slow it up,” he said.
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