Fani Willis Calls Trump and Allies ‘Criminals’ in Hearing Before Georgia Senate Committee

By: Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim — 18 December 2025 at 01:46

The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.

District Attorney Fani T. Willis assailed Republican adversaries and stumped for political allies at the hearing on Wednesday.

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Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State’s Election Vote in 2020 Call

By: Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim — 18 December 2025 at 01:18

During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.

David Ralston, the former Georgia House speaker, in 2018.

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Why Judges in the Trump Jan. 6 Trial Need a Rocket Docket

By: Randall D. Eliason — 28 November 2023 at 10:01

Voters could go to the polls in 2024 without knowing whether one of the candidates is criminally responsible for trying to overturn the last one.

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Trump’s Legal Defense Effort Comes Under Financial Strain

By: Ben Protess， Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman — 29 September 2023 at 01:35

Former President Donald Trump’s team has found lawyers for others caught up in his prosecutions and has paid many of their legal bills. That arrangement may not be sustainable.

Walt Nauta, right, was charged in the investigation into Donald J. Trump’s handling of classified documents. Prosecutors have raised conflict-of-interest questions about his lawyer.

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Donald Trump’s Campaign of Violence and Lawlessness

By: Alex Kingsbury — 29 September 2023 at 00:37

The ex-president is running on a platform of lawlessness.

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Trump Will Not Seek to Move Georgia Election Case to Federal Court

By: Danny Hakim and Richard Fausset — 28 September 2023 at 23:15

His decision comes after Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff, tried unsuccessfully to move his own case from state to federal court.

Donald J. Trump was indicted by a grand jury in August after a two-and-a-half year investigation into election interference by the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis.

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Fani Willis Sharply Rebukes House Republican Investigating Her

By: Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim — 7 September 2023 at 20:28

The prosecutor, Fani T. Willis, accused Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio of trying to obstruct her prosecution of the racketeering case against Donald J. Trump and his allies.

Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, held a news conference last month to announce the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump and others.