New Trouble for Fani Willis: Now Accused of Illegally Recording Phone Call by Trump Co-Defendant
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may not have been disqualified from the Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, but she's still facing multiple probes or complaints from the Georgia state Senate, the House Judiciary Committee and involving the state bar.
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On top of that, now there's a new accusation by one of the lawyers for one of the co-defendants in the case.
During an interview with Townhall columnist and legal analyst Phil Holloway, Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd alleged that Willis recorded a phone call between herself and one of his Maryland colleagues.
"She did reach out to us, one of my colleagues in Maryland, and was rude, abrupt with him on the phone, and he was dealing with the Maryland case and I was dealing with the Georgia case, and she ended up recording him," Kachouroff said.
He noted that Maryland is a "two party state," meaning both parties had to consent to the recording. When asked by Holloway if he was saying that Willis illegally recorded the phone call, he said, "Oh, yes" and noted it was a felony in Maryland.
Floyd posted that part of the conversation.
Holloway also noted that Floyd followed that up with another tweet calling on her to recuse herself by Monday, saying otherwise he would pursue legal remedies.
In Floyd's tweet, it refers to Willis providing a copy or a recording of a call to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution between herself and Carlos J.R. Salvado, an attorney in Maryland, who also represents Floyd on an unrelated matter.
Atlanta News First and Newsweek have reached out to Willis' office for comment on this new allegation but she doesn't appear to have weighed in yet. It will be interesting to see what her response to this allegation is.
Her responses when confronted on issues tend to dig even bigger holes for herself as we saw during the hearing over the disqualification question. That issue forced the special prosecutor she had selected Nathan Wade off the case.
In the latest news on the case, Judge Scott McAfee had turned down a motion to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds without prejudice, meaning the defendants could try again.
After everything we've seen already, I'm guessing this alleged issue isn't going to make him happy either.
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