President Donald Trump has formally requested more than $6.2 million in legal fees and expenses from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s Office following the collapse of the Democrat prosecutor’s Georgia election interference case against him.
Under a Georgia law enacted last year, defendants are entitled to recover “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred” if a prosecutor is disqualified for improper conduct and the case is dismissed.
Any reimbursement is paid directly from the budget of the disqualified prosecutor’s office.
Trump filed the request pursuant to that statute, seeking repayment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after she and her entire office were removed from the case and the prosecution was ultimately dismissed.
Willis was disqualified after it was revealed she had hired her romantic partner, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, to pursue the case against Trump.
She paid Wade hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars while the two took luxury trips together.
A judge first ordered Wade removed from the case.
Subsequent rulings found that Willis’s conduct created an “appearance of impropriety,” forcing her office off the case entirely.
As Fox News reported, Willis was permanently barred from prosecuting the matter last September after losing an appeal.
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that neither she nor her office could continue due to the conflict of interest.
The case was formally dismissed in November.
Trump’s lead attorney in the case, Steve Sadow, said the reimbursement request is straightforward under Georgia law.
“In accordance with Georgia law, President Trump has moved the Court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in his defense of the politically motivated, and now rightfully dismissed, case brought by disqualified DA Fani Willis,” Sadow said.
The total requested reimbursement is $6,261,613.08, which a judge must now review and either approve or modify.
Willis has already signaled resistance to the statute.
In response to a separate reimbursement request filed by another defendant in the case, she argued that the law violates separation of powers by imposing financial liability on a “constitutional officer” for carrying out her duties.
She claimed the statute improperly punishes an elected prosecutor “for the lawful exercise of her core duties under the Georgia Constitution.”
The statute at issue, Georgia Code § 17-11-6, explicitly grants defendants the right to recover all reasonable defense costs when charges are dismissed because a prosecutor was legally unqualified to proceed.
The motion does not address how those “core duties” include hiring a romantic partner at taxpayer expense to prosecute a former president, conduct that ultimately detonated the case and triggered the reimbursement provision now being invoked.
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