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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sam Levine and Hugo Lowell

Fani Willis: what is the Georgia Trump prosecutor’s hearing about?

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The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, in Atlanta on 19 April 2023. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP

The case brought against Donald Trump in Georgia is a powerful, sprawling indictment that charges the former US president and his top allies with violating the state’s racketeering statute over their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In January, the case was roiled by an explosive complaint filed by Trump’s co-defendant Michael Roman, who alleged that a secret personal relationship between the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, and her deputy Nathan Wade, amounted to a conflict of interest that warranted their disqualification.

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