😍Trump to Seek Millions In Damages From Fani Willis After Botched Prosecution

The case was eventually dismissed, and in December 2024, the Georgia Court of Appeals stated that a lower court had erred in allowing Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is also her romantic partner, to choose between stepping aside.

The court ruled that the “significant appearance of impropriety” meant Willis and her office should be “wholly disqualified.” Willis appealed that decision, but she lost in court.

This incident led to a motion seeking to recover $6.3 million in attorneys’ fees, referencing a Georgia law that stipulates that when a district attorney is dismissed, the defendant in the case “shall” be entitled to a payout.

The motion filed by attorney Steve Sadow, representing Trump, spans three pages and includes approximately 200 pages of attachments detailing the costs Trump seeks reimbursement for.

Arguing the law “mandates such recovery when a prosecuting attorney is disqualified due to improper conduct and the case is dismissed,” the motion said Willis launched a “politically motivated, lengthy investigation.”

“This dismissal paves the way for the award of reasonable attorney fees and litigation expenses,” the motion said.

“Each of the necessary elements have been met: DA Willis was disqualified based upon improper conduct, the criminal case was dismissed, and the criminal case was pending when the statute went into effect. This motion is timely filed,” the document added, noting as well that co-defendants in the case can also seek reimbursement.

“President Trump intends to adopt the motions for attorney fees and costs filed by his co-defendants,” a footnote said. “He will do so in a separate pleading after all such motions are filed.”

Willis snapped again this week at former defendants in the election interference cases for attempting to recoup their legal fees.

“We’re gonna fight with everything we legally can in that particular case. The law’s unconstitutional and just wrong in so many ways,” Willis told Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne.

A state law passed last year allows President Trump and others charged in the Willis office’s election interference case to try to get their legal fees back since the charges were dropped.

Willis says she will go to court to fight against having to pay the defense lawyers about $17 million in legal fees.

“The first problem is that the law was written with the intent of legislators trying to help their friends, and so whenever you do something for a wrong purpose, it’s going to work out wrongly. It’s terribly written. It looks like they wrote it on the back of a napkin,” Willis said.

Chris Anulewicz, an attorney, told Winne that he represents one of the former defendants. He says he doesn’t think the law is badly written, as it was created in response to what Willis and her office did, which he believes was wrong.

Willis says that to get the fees, the prosecutor has to say that the defendant did something wrong. It was decided that there was an appearance of wrongdoing, but courts found no actual wrongdoing.

Anulewicz says that the law in question would cover even behavior that seems wrong.

Willis says lawyers are trying to get money back for things like hotel rooms that cost over $1,000 a night and seafood lunches that cost over $300.

Last month, Willis mounted an aggressive defense of her failed prosecution of Trump and his allies, testifying for more than three hours before a Georgia Senate panel investigating her conduct in the high-profile election interference case.