Former President Donald Trump and Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis. Getty Images CNN【div】【/div】& mdash； The Georgia Court of Appeal will consider Donald Trump and his co-defendants' efforts to disqualify district attorney Fanny Willis in the 2020 election subversion case. In a brief order on Wednesday, the court said it would hear Trump and others' appeals against Judge Scott mcafee's decision to allow Willis to continue to participate in the case.
On May 7, 2024, former US President Donald Trump appeared in the Manhattan Criminal Court in new york on suspicion of covering up the payment of hush money related to extramarital affairs. The US media said that the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, who was at the core of the hush money trial, was scheduled to testify against the former president in court on May 7, which was a heavy moment in court drama and shook the scandal-ridden Republican's efforts to recapture the White House. (Image courtesy of Win McNamee/POOL/AFP) (Image courtesy of WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Related articles of WINMCNAMEE/POOL/AFP/Getty Images Trump faced his testimony that he had denied for many years. The trial date for Trump's large-scale election subversion plot has not yet been set, and the decision to consider the appeal is another sign of the success of the pre-trial efforts to postpone the trial.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Florida postponed the trial of Trump for improper handling of confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate indefinitely. The Supreme Court has not ruled on Trump's argument that he has complete immunity from action during his presidency, which has prevented the federal trial on January 6, 2021-related charges.
Willis' office declined to comment on the order.
Trump's lawyer, Steve Sado, said that the former president "looks forward to presenting a neutral argument to the Georgia Court of Appeal, explaining why the case should be dismissed and why Da Willis of Fulton County should be disqualified for her misconduct in this unreasonable and unfounded political persecution."
In March this year, in a trial equivalent to a mini-trial, Trump and his co-defendants' lawyers tried to prove their allegations against Willis and his prosecutors. Nathan Wade, the presiding judge of Fulton County, finally decided that if Wade stepped down, Willis would be allowed to remain in charge of the case.
McAfee found that there was not enough evidence to prove that Willis benefited financially from her relationship with Wade, and the defense lawyer said that Wade provided them with several vacations. Willis testified that she repaid Wade's expenses in cash.
A few weeks after McAfee's ruling, Trump and several co-defendants appealed that Willis "brought herself and her office into scandal and discredit because she wasted her reputation and repeatedly and blatantly violated the higher moral standards required by her position."
The story has been updated with more details.