'This could really blow up Fani Willis': Trump is reportedly seeking 'more dirt on her'

Former President Donald Trump and his legal team are currently strategizing how to weaponize currently-unproven allegations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the election racketeering case against him in Georgia, had an improper romantic relationship with a special prosecutor in her office, reported Rolling Stone on Wednesday.

"Trumpland is already discussing different ideas for marshaling considerable resources to try and dig up even more dirt on, among other things, Willis’ 'sex life and… her money' in an effort to shut down the criminal case against the former president and his associates, says an attorney close to Trump," reported Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng. "On Monday, a lawyer for one of Trump’s co-defendants, former campaign aide Michael Roman, dropped a bombshell in the Georgia election interference case — alleging that Willis has been romantically involved with her office’s special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, who has been paid $654,000 so far for his work on the case, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution."

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The lawyer is arguing that Willis illegally benefited from this relationship. And that could just be the start — Trump's team is looking for additional personal scandals to try to use to deligitimize the prosecution.

"For months, Trump and a handful of his lawyers and aides were vaguely aware of rumors about Willis, including whispers of a possibly scandalous romance in her office, a source with direct knowledge of the matter says. But those rumors, this source adds, weren’t anything nearly as specific or explosive as the allegations in the motion filed by former Trump official Mike Roman’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant," said the report. The attorney added, “Donald Trump wants more dirt on her. And it doesn’t hurt that this really could blow up Fani Willis, if the allegations are true.”

In addition to Trump, more than a dozen co-defendants are charged in the case, which is being prosecuted under Georgia's tough anti-organized crime laws, known as RICO. Willis, who has similarly used this law to crack down on gang violence and a teacher cheating scandal, argues that the plot to overturn the election results in Georgia effectively amounted to a racketeering operation.

Multiple co-defendants, including attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, and bail bondsman Scott Hall, have already taken plea deals in the case.