Trump cheers disqualification of 'incompetent' DA Willis in Georgia RICO case

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday cheered the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from pursuing her Georgia election case against him.

 "The case has to be thrown out because it was started corruptly by an incompetent prosecutor who received millions of dollars through her boyfriend—who received it from her—and then they went on cruises all the time," Trump told Fox News.

"Therefore, the case is entirely dead. Everybody should receive an apology, including those wonderful patriots who have been caught up in this for years," he added.

The Georgia Court of Appeals voted 2 to 1 to disqualify her from the case after a lower court judge previously ruled she could remain if the special prosecutor she hired stepped down, which he did.

Willis came under fire over an alleged illicit relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The pair admitted to the affair but insisted it began after Willis hired Wade. He stepped down after the lower court ruling, though Trump appealed to remove Willis as well.

The court did not throw out the indictment all together, but determined "the elected district attorney is wholly disqualified from this case the assistant district attorneys — whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority of the district attorney who appointed them — have no authority to proceed."