Fani Willis fights push to remove her from Trump Georgia case
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
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Fani Willis fights the push to remove her from the Trump Georgia election fraud case. USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson Wilson and today is Friday, February 16th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.0 | excerpt. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, what a dramatic Fani Willis hearing might mean for Trump's election fraud case in Georgia. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus, a former FBI informant has been charged with lying over Hunter and Joe Biden business dealings and we discuss the |
| 0:34.5 | greatness of Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark. There were plenty of fireworks |
| 0:40.1 | at yesterday's hearing over whether Fulton County District Attorney |
| 0:43.2 | Fawnee willis should be disqualified from the Georgia election fraud case |
| 0:46.9 | against former President Donald Trump and 14 others. |
| 0:50.3 | It's highly offensive when someone lies on you and it's highly offensive when they try |
| 0:54.0 | to implicate that you slept with somebody the first day you met with them and I take exception to. |
| 0:58.4 | Inside the court yesterday was USA Today domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer. I caught up with him to put the hearing in context. |
| 1:05.8 | Josh, thank you for hopping on the excerpt today. My pleasure, Taylor. So Josh, let's just start here. |
| 1:10.7 | Can you remind us what exactly is that issue in these election |
| 1:14.1 | interference hearings this week? So Fawnee Willis, the Fulton County District |
| 1:18.2 | attorney is fighting for her political life. She's also fighting for what is by |
| 1:22.2 | far the biggest case of her career, which is the election interference case in which she initially indicted 19 people including former President Donald Trump in an alleged effort to criminally overthrow the results of the 2020 election and allow him to remain as president even though Joe Biden won the election for those defendants and pled out but 15 remain including Trump and so the lawyers for some of those |
| 1:46.0 | defendants are trying to get Willis thrown off the case they're trying to get her special prosecutor |
| 1:50.9 | Nathan Wade thrown off the case because of an affair that the two had in recent years |
| 1:55.3 | and they're also trying to disqualify the entire Fulton County DA's office and |
| 1:59.6 | have the case dismissed because of what they say are improper personal relationships |
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