MAGA nation is celebrating after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was removed from the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump and his allies.
A Georgia appellate court ruled Thursday that Willis’ prior romantic relationship with a special prosecutor once on the case, Nathan Wade, was a sufficient conflict of interest for her dismissal.
The decision overturns a previous ruling that allowed Willis to stay on the case as long as Wade resigned, which he promptly did. Although it doesn’t eliminate the criminal racketeering indictment against Trump, the decision does muddle the case’s future less than a month out from the presidential inauguration.
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Accordingly, Trump and some of his most ardent supporters are celebrating the outcome as a huge win.
In an interview with Fox New Digital, Trump praised the decision, declaring the case “entirely dead” and adding that the “wonderful patriots who have been caught up in this for years” deserve an apology.
Trump told Fox that the “whole case has been a disgrace to justice.”
“There is no way such corrupt people can lead a case, and then it gets taken over by somebody else,” Trump added, insisting that the case has no future.
In a statement to the Daily Beast about the ruling, Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, wrote that “the American People have demanded an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all the Witch Hunts against him.“
Other prominent MAGA figures also took part in the revelry.
“Fani Willis DISQUALIFIED—another Trump win!Merry Christmas!!” wrote pundit Megyn Kelly on X.
Fellow far-right commentator Charlie Kirk, meanwhile, added that the ruling was “a HUGE legal victory for not only President Trump but all of the co-defendants who were targeted alongside him.”
Over a dozen Trump allies—including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows—were charged alongside him under Georgia’s RICO act him for what prosecutors said was an organized criminal effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost.
The previous relationship between Willis and Wade came to light months after the district attorney had hired him to assist as a special prosecutor for the case, although they both insisted there was no impropriety in the move.
The appeals court, however, decided otherwise.
“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” the ruling reads.
Although another prosecutor could theoretically take over the case from Willis’ office, there has so far been no indication that this will happen.
