Georgia State Republican Senator Colton Moore has said the state Senate’s vote on Friday to create a special committee to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is “the first step towards impeaching and defunding this corrupt prosecutor.”
Willis is overseeing the prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia over allegations he acted illegally to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
On January 8, the legal team of Michael Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case, accused Willis of engaging in an inappropriate romantic relationship with attorney Nathan Wade, who was hired as special prosecutor in Trump’s case, creating a conflict of interest.
Willis has yet to comment on the claim she engaged in a romantic relationship with Wade, but in a speech on January 14, she insisted he is “a great lawyer” and questioned whether criticism directed at the Black attorney was racially motivated.
Newsweek has contacted District Attorney Willis for comment via an email sent to Fulton County.
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On January 26 the Georgia Senate voted 30-19 to launch a special committee to investigate Willis’s conduct, though it can’t directly sanction the district attorney.
Posting on X (formerly Twitter) the following day, Senator Colton Moore said: “Investigating Fani Willis is the first step towards impeaching and defunding this corrupt prosecutor. We cannot let up the pressure now… we must DOUBLE DOWN.
“We are just getting started. We will save America. But it will take enormous courage and participation from grassroots, blue-collar PATRIOTS from across the land of the free.”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
The Georgia grassroots stood by me while the GOP establishment, the corrupt Democrats, and the elites in power all mocked us for our effort to INVESTIGATE FANI WILLIS.
The people ran a pressure… pic.twitter.com/yV9Cvy6mVV
— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) January 27, 2024
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