DA Fani Willis likely conceding improper relationship in case against Trump, says former US attorney

Former U.S. attorney Michael Moore suggested on Friday that Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is likely conceding that some of the allegations recently made against her are true regarding a potential improper relationship in the case she is prosecuting against former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants.

"We've seen now it's an attack on the people who were questioning or raised the issue for further investigation, and I think that sounds a lot to me like maybe a concession that some of the allegations in the motion must be true," Moore said on CNN, where he serves as an analyst, according to Fox News.

Moore is a Democrat who was appointed by President Obama in 2010 and served until 2015. He said that he does not see the allegations on their own as "completely destructive" to the case against Trump, but that it is a "real optics problem" for Willis. 

He also predicted that any prosecution of Willis would be "far down the road" and that a court would not likely want to deal with this case. 

"No judge wants the courtroom to become a circus," Moore also said. "The problem with these kinds of allegations is it has a tendency to make a case a circus as opposed to the facts of the case."

Willis and an attorney she hired to prosecute Trump, Nathan Wade, face allegations of maintaining an improper romantic relationship and benefiting financially from Trump's indictment. The case alleges that Trump and his co-defendants participated in a conspiracy to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia in 2020.

She was recently subpoenaed to come to court as part of Wade's divorce case.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said that he wants the committee to look into these allegations.

Willis has argued that the accusations against her are racially motivated, according to The Daily Mail.

"They are going to be mad when I call them out on this nonsense," Willis told the Big Bethel AME Church congregation in Atlanta on Sunday. "First thing they say, 'Oh, she's going to play the race card.' But … isn't it them playing the race card when they think I need someone in some other jurisdiction in some other state to tell me how to do a job I've been doing almost 30 years?"