Fani Willis counterattacks as Republican Georgia senators question her Trump prosecution
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis clashed combatively with a Republican-led Georgia state Senate committee investigating her conduct in the Trump election-interference case, telling the panel it had “been trying to intimidate me for five years” and often deflecting or declining to answer questions from Sen. Greg Dolezal over more than three hours. Much of the scrutiny centered on her hiring of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, with whom she had a romantic relationship that ultimately got her removed from the case, as well as Dolezal’s suggestion — which Willis and her attorney, former Gov. Roy Barnes, firmly denied — that contacts with the Biden White House pointed to coordination on the prosecution. Democrats have cast the committee, whose Republican members include several 2026 statewide candidates, as a partisan vehicle, while Willis has simultaneously used the hearings to fuel her own campaign fundraising.