亚特兰大-富尔顿县地方检察官法尼·威利斯周六表示选举干扰起诉唐纳德·特朗普并没有因为她与为该案聘请的特别检察官之间的浪漫关系而受到影响。
威利斯在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时表示:“我一点也不觉得我们被放慢了脚步。“我认为有人在努力让火车慢下来，但火车就要来了。”
她发表最新评论之际，辩护律师继续就她对前总统和现任共和党推定提名人的大规模起诉的处理提出指控。特朗普面临四项重罪起诉——包括因其在2020年大选中输给总统而试图推翻选举结果的独立联邦和州案件乔·拜登——但他竭力拖延和驳回这些案件，辩称政治对手错误地将矛头指向了他。
威利斯发表讲话的几天前，佐治亚州一名法官允许特朗普共同被告的律师上诉他的裁决，即在特别检察官内森·韦德退出后，她可以继续参与此案。这可能会让辩护律师扩大韦德和威利斯之间不当行为的指控。
辩护律师指控威利斯雇佣韦德通过他们的浪漫关系从特朗普的起诉中获利。高等法院法官斯科特·麦卡菲表示，没有足够的证据证明这些说法，但他指责威利斯“判断失误”
威利斯告诉CNN，她认为自己的名誉不需要挽回，她也没有做任何令人尴尬的事情。
威利斯说:“我对自己做过的任何事情都不感到尴尬。“我想我最大的罪行是我和一个男人发生了关系，但这并不是我觉得尴尬的事情。”
一直关注此案的佐治亚州立大学法学教授安东尼·迈克尔·克莱斯在x上的一篇帖子中批评了她的评论。
克瑞斯说:“如果我是法尼·威利斯，出于谨慎起见，我不会在这一点上与媒体交谈。”
Fulton County DA Fani Willis says despite efforts to slow down Trump case, 'the train is coming'
ATLANTA --Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Saturday that theelectioninterference prosecution againstDonald Trumphasn't been delayed by proceedings over her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor she hired for the case.
“I don’t feel like we have been slowed down at all,” Willis told CNN in an interview. “I think there are efforts to slow down the train, but the train is coming.”
Her latest comments come as defense attorneys continue to press claims about her handling of a sprawling prosecution against the former president and current GOP presumptive nominee. Trump faces four felony indictments — including separate federal and state cases for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost to PresidentJoe Biden— but has fought to delay and dismiss the cases, arguing that political opponents are wrongly targeting him.
Willis spoke days after a Georgia judge allowed attorneys for Trump's codefendants to appeal his ruling that she could stay on the case after the withdrawal of the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade. That may allow defense attorneys to amplify allegations of impropriety between Wade and Willis.
Defense attorneys have alleged Willis hired Wade to profit from the Trump prosecution through their romantic relationship. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said there wasn't sufficient evidence to prove those claims but rebuked Willis for what he called a “tremendous lapse in judgment.”
Willis told CNN that she didn’t think her reputation needed to be reclaimed and that she hadn’t done anything embarrassing.
“I’m not embarrassed by anything I’ve done,” Willis said. “I guess my greatest crime is that I had a relationship with a man, but that’s not something I find embarrassing in any way.”
Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor who’s been following the case, criticized her comments in a post on X.
“If I were Fani Willis, I would simply not talk to the media at all at this point just out of an abundance of caution,” Kreis said.
