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U.S. President Donald Trump gives brief remarks to members of the press
RELUCTANT TORCH-PASSING

Trump’s Georgia Election Case Finally Finds a New Prosecutor

The state’s most fraught criminal case rests with a prosecutor who never asked for it—and couldn’t find anyone else who would take it.

Leigh Kimmins

Fani Willis.
GLOATING

MAGA Celebrates Removal of DA Fani Willis From Trump Case

An appellate court ruled that the Fulton County district attorney’s relationship with a special prosecutor was a conflict of interest.

Liam Archacki

Laura Ingraham
DÉJÀ VU

Fox Mixes Up Black Attorneys Letitia James and Fani Willis

Laura Ingraham doubled down after showing a photo of the New York state attorney general instead of the Fulton County DA.

Janna Brancolini

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was with Nathan Wade at the scene of her daughter’s arrest, new video shows.
WHOOPSIE

Fani Willis Shows Up to Daughter’s Arrest With ‘Ex-Lover’

Despite Willis’ and Nathan Wade’s claims that the two broke things off in 2023, he is seen on policy bodycam with Willis at the scene of her daughter’s arrest.

Owen Lavine

President Donald Trump's lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
STICKS & STONES

Rudy Giuliani Calls Fani Willis a ‘Ho’ at Far-Right Rally

The indicted former New York mayor cracked that he’d drop the epithet “if she’d just quit and go away.”

AJ McDougall

Photo by Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images
DEVELOPING

Georgia Appeals Court Halts Racketeering Case Against Trump

Trump and his defendants have appealed a judge’s decision to allow Fani Willis to stay on the election interference case.

Pilar Melendez

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Nathan Wade on MSNBC
NEW NORMAL

Nathan Wade Describes Parade of MAGA Threats He’s Faced

The former special prosecutor on Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia said he’s been getting used to having around-the-clock bodyguards.

William Vaillancourt

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
VICTORY

Fani Willis Handily Wins Her Democratic Primary in Georgia

The judge presiding over Trump’s Georgia case, Scott McAfee, was also projected to win his own election Tuesday.

Brett Bachman

Fani Willis
‘DIG DEEPER’

Fani Willis: You ‘Should Feel Sorry’ for Those Attacking Me

Amid death threats and Republicans at the state and federal level throwing sand in the gears of her Trump prosecution, the Fulton County DA said she would not be deterred.

William Vaillancourt

A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a ruling from a lower court which allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump.
BOMBSHELL

Georgia Appeals Court Gives Trump Minor Win

The former president and others tried to get her kicked off the proceedings over her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor.

Pilar Melendez

A photo of Nathan Wade
TELL ALL

Nathan Wade Calls Fani Willis Affair ‘American As Apple Pie’

Wade resigned as Fulton County special prosecutor after his secret affair with Fani Willis was exposed.

Pilar Melendez

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