USA: The request for exemption of the prosecutor who prosecuted Donald Trump was rejected

The judge who will preside over the trial of Donald Trump and his 14 co-defendants for the illegal attempt to overturn the election result in the State of Georgia in 2020 today rejected the request of the prosecutor Fannie Willis to be exempted, but set certain conditions for her to remain in the case. Judge Scott McAfee concluded that there was insufficient evidence to establish a “conflict of interest” because Willis had formed a bond with an attorney to whom she had assigned the case. However, judging her to have made a “blunder” and denouncing a “gross lack of judgement” on Willis' part, he called on her to either withdraw herself and her entire team, or to withdraw her subordinate, Nathan Wade, to whom she had delegated duties special counsel to handle the Trump case. Four different criminal trials are pending against Trump, the Republican candidate for the November presidential election against the Democratic outgoing president Joe Biden, APE reports. […]
Source: News Beast

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