Fourth Defendant Joins Others in Speaking Out Against District Attorney in Trump Case

David Shafer, the former Georgia GOP chairman, became the fourth defendant to call for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to be disqualified from the prosecution team in the case against former President Donald Trump, court documents filed Monday reveal.

Shafer’s attorneys argue that Willis’s personal relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor she hired for the case, should disqualify her, the Washington Examiner noted.

“We today filed five motions in the Fulton County case, including this new 229 page motion to disqualify Fani Willis for a continuing pattern of forensic prosecutorial misconduct,” Shafer posted on X on Monday.

An accompanying document posted on the social media site by Shafer said: “The Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis, has engaged in a pattern of  prosecutorial, forensic misconduct, which compels her disqualification from the prosecution of this case as well as the disqualification of her entire office and prosecution staff. All of the causes for the disqualification are self-inflect blows.”

The Examiner added that his attorneys also wrote: “Her conduct in hiring Wade, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars to be paid to him, benefiting personally, and failing to disclose her conduct is a clear breach of her fiduciary.”

Shafer is one of 19 co-defendants in the case. Trump and co-defendants  Robert Cheeley, and Michael Roman have also filed similar motions to dismiss the case and disqualify Willis, according to the Examiner.