'You can't expect black women to be perfect and save the world': Atlanta DA Fani Willis DEFENDS 'having an affair with colleague as they prosecuted Trump in election interference case'

Willis was accused in a stunning court filing by one of Trump's co-defendants Trump said it should force the case against him in Georgia to be dropped Wade didn't directly address but did not deny the allegation at an Atlanta church

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appeared to defend accusations of having an alleged secret lover co-prosecutor as they oversee the Georgia case against former President Donald Trump. 

Willis was accused in a stunning court filing by one of Trump’s co-defendants of having an affair with Nathan Wade, who was paid more than $600,000 as a special prosecutor assisting her office. 

The former president pointed to the allegations Tuesday and said it meant the Georgia prosecutor was ‘totally compromised’ and that the racketeering case against Trump and 18 codefendants ‘has to be dropped.’ 

In an impassioned 35-minute speech at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta Sunday, she did not directly refer to – and did not deny – the accusations but suggested that criticism of her was racist and sexist. 

‘You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. We need to be allowed to stumble,’ she said. 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appeared to defend accusations of having an alleged secret lover co-prosecutor as they oversee the Georgia case against former President Donald Trump

Without naming Wade, she clearly appeared to be referring to him in her speech, adding that this ‘someone’ had ‘impeccable credentials’ and years of expertise. 

‘They are going to be mad when I call them out on this nonsense,’ Willis told the congregation. ‘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?’ 

Willis thanked leaders of the historically black church in Atlanta who ‘didn´t care what they said about me’ and told her ‘the invite was still good’ to speak.

‘I hope for y’all this week I don´t look like what I’ve been through,’ she said.

She repeatedly referred to herself as ‘imperfect’ and ‘flawed,’ noting that the only perfect person was Jesus. 

‘Today, what he has brought you is his very flawed, hardheaded and imperfect servant,’ she said. 

Willis said her father, who she said met and spent time with Dr. Martin Luther King, told her that he saw the civil rights leader at low moments, saddened because people were cruel and unsupportive.

Her father told her that King ‘was not a perfect man, but he was a great man, willing to answer God’s call.’

In an impassioned 35-minute speech at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta Sunday, she did not directly refer to – and did not deny – the accusations but suggested that criticism of her was racist and sexist

Former President Donald Trump said following arguments at a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis was ‘totally compromised,’ following allegations she had a ‘romantic’ affair with a private lawyer acting as a paid special prosecutor

A lawyer representing Michael Roman made the bombshell allegations against Willis and Nathan Wade (pictured center) in a filing and asked that charges be dismissed

Without naming Wade, Willis clearly appeared to be referring to him in her speech, adding that this ‘someone’ had ‘impeccable credentials’ and years of expertise

At a low point in the past week, she said, she ‘penned a letter to my heavenly Father.’

She framed much of her speech at the church as a conversation with God, describing herself over and over again as flawed, imperfect and hard-headed.

‘You did not tell me as a woman of color, it would not matter what I did. My motive, my talent, my ability and my character would be constantly attacked,’ she said.

She appeared to choke up briefly at times and talked about the loneliness and stress of her job, saying she has come to think it is ‘not normal if I don’t have two death threats a week’ and that she’s regularly called racial slurs.

Willis revealed that on Christmas night, she got an emergency call saying police had surrounded her house because a man had called 911 saying he had shot a woman there.

She said she experienced ‘pure, unimaginable fear,’ believing her older daughter was dead in her home until the incident was revealed to be ‘a cruel hoax.’

Willis said she hired three special prosecutors for the election case: a white man, a white woman and a Black man.

They are paid the same hourly rate and no one has questioned the qualifications of the two white lawyers, she said.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis waits for a worship service to begin at the Big Bethel AME Church, where she was invited as a guest speaker Sunday

She framed much of her speech at the church as a conversation with God, describing herself over and over again as flawed, imperfect and hard-headed

While never mentioning Wade by name, she called him a ‘superstar, a great friend and a great lawyer.’

She cited his accomplishments and past professional experience and said, ‘I’m just asking, God, is it that some will never see a Black man as qualified, no matter his achievements?’

The pair are accused of having traveled together to Napa Valley and the Caribbean Islands.

Trump blasted the bombshell revelations about an alleged ‘romantic’ relationship between Fani Willis and Wade, a private lawyer serving on her team.

‘She was out of her mind,’ Trump fumed about Willis, who was already one of his regular targets during her grand jury probe and since his arrest last summer. ‘Now it turns out that that case is totally compromised. In fact, they say she’s in far more criminal liability than any of the people she’s looking at,’ he claimed.

‘So, I think that when you look at what happened with, they pay a lawyer with absolutely no experience $700,000 who happens your lover or boyfriend and then they go on trips and vacations together very expensive vacations together. And the reason they paid him so much because he was after me,’ he continued.

It comes after Willis was accused in a stunning court filing by one of Trump’s co-defendants of having an affair with Nathan Wade, who was paid more than $600,000 as a special prosecutor assisting her office

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade leaves the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at the Fulton County Government building on August 23 in Atlanta. He is accused by a Trump co-defendant of having a personal relationship with Willis

He said legal analysts he spoke to told him the case had to be dropped, although it wasn’t clear if he meant the case against former Trump campaign official Michael Roman, who raised it in the bombshell filing, or against Trump and other associates accused of conspiring to overturn the election results in the state.

‘Very good people were very badly hurt by that case. It’s a shame. Very good people. People that did nothing wrong. They did nothing different than what Democrats have been doing for years and years and years, whether it’s slates or anything else that you’re talking about. But they were very hurt. And it turns out that she profited tremendously in that case, it’s illegal. What she did is illegal. So we’ll let the state handle that but what a sad situation,’ he said.

The bombshell allegations are included in a filing by Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official who is accused of taking part in the ‘fake electors’ scheme as one of 18 people charged in the state along with Trump.

Trump’s comments came as it was revealed through invoices that Roman had two past meetings with the Biden White House counsel’s office.

He has made similar attacks against other prosecutors lining up against him in his four criminal trials and civil cases, calling Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was on hand at the appeals court Tuesday, ‘deranged’ and calling New York AG Letitia James a ‘lunatic.’

Trump was also hyping the allegations in a fundraising pitch to his supporters.

‘The Atlanta prosecutor behind my MUGSHOT has now been EXPOSED for ‘impropriety’ in the case,’ according to the appeal.

The filing doesn’t provide documentary proof of the allegations. It states that ‘sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed they had an ongoing, personal relationship.’

Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) confers with lead prosecutors, Donald Wakeford (left) and Nathan Wade, during a hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Friday, July 1, 2022

The motion states the gravity of the allegations. ‘The instant Motion is not filed lightly. Nor is it being filed without considerable forethought, research or investigation,’ according to the filing.

‘Nonetheless, this Motion must be heard, as the issues raised herein strike at the heart of fairness in our justice system and, if left unaddressed and unchecked, threaten to taint the entire prosecution, invite error, and completely undermine public confidence in the eventual outcome of this proceeding.’

It states that the pair engaged in ‘a personal, romantic relationship that has ultimately yielded substantial income to the special prosecutor.’

The filing makes reference to a sealed divorce filing for the married special prosecutor, but then goes on to make the claim based on other information.

It states that ‘information obtained outside of court filings indicates that the district attorney and special prosecutor have traveled personally together to such places as Napa Valley, Florida and the Caribbean and the special prosecutor has purchased tickets for both of them to travel on both the Norwegian and Royal Carbibean cruise lines. Traveling together to such places as Washington, D.C. or New York City might make sense for work purposes in light of other pending litigation, but what work purpose could only be served by travel to this traditional vacation destinations?’

DailyMail.com has reached out to Willis’ office and Wade for comment.

A Willis spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the DA’s office would respond ‘through appropriate court filings.’

‘The district attorney chose to appoint her romantic partner, who at all times relevant to this prosecution has been a married man,’ according to the filing.

Willis said she experienced ‘pure, unimaginable fear,’ believing her older daughter was dead in her home until the incident was revealed to be ‘a cruel hoax.’

It says the DA and Wade ‘have been seen in private together in and about the Atlanta area’ and are ‘believed to have co-habitated in some form or fashion.’

It further states that there is ‘no evidence’ Willis was ‘authorized’ by the county to use funds to retain Wade for the case.

Roman was charged this summer with alleged crimes including taking part in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit forgery, and conspiracy to file false documents, all in connection with a scheme to submit fake Republican electors who would cast votes for Trump in place of electors to reflect Joe Biden’s certified victory in the state.