Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) won re-election, according to The Associated Press, by defeating Courtney Kramer, a former Trump White House legal intern who said the charges Willis filed against the former president and his allies had pushed her to run for office.
Fulton is Georgia’s most populous county and a Democratic stronghold. Willis raised more than eight times as much money as Kramer, The Associated Press reported a few days before Election Day, noting that no Republican had even run for district attorney in Fulton County since 2000.
Kramer, 31, was an intern in the White House counsel’s office during Donald Trump’s presidency.
For years, Willis has filed criminal charges against Trump and others who tried to overturn the 2020 election. She launched her investigation just a few months into her first term, shortly after Trump pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to “find 11,780 votes” during a January 2, 2021, phone call. indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023.
“The resources that were used for that investigation could have been used for many other things that would have been much more beneficial to the citizens of Fulton County, and I want to give those citizens a voice, an opportunity to vote for someone else,” he said. Kramer said of Trump’s prosecution as she launched her candidacy.
The case fell into turbulence with the revelation that Willis had a past relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to lead the case, Nathan Wade. A judge allowed Willis to continue prosecuting Wade got off of the matter, what he did, but the matter was stuck as a result of Trump’s legal team appeal of that decision. A hearing, yes set for December.
Last month, Judge Scott McAfee ruled in Fulton County Superior Court thrown three counts in the indictment, including two in the case against Trump. That was in addition to six charges, including three against Trump he resigned earlier this year. Prosecutors from Willis’ office asked an appeals court to restore these counts.
Of the 13 original charges against him, Trump currently facing eightincluding the most serious, allegedly in violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Four of Trump’s co-defendants also did so pleaded guilty.
Willis has faced threats to her safety as a result of her office’s prosecution of Trump and his allies. A man who left threatening voicemails aimed at Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat was recently convicted to nearly two years in prison after pleading guilty in June. Another man, Marc Shultz, pleaded guilty in August to making death threats against Willis in online messages. Willis’ father said earlier this year that she has moved so many times due to the threats that he doesn’t know where she lives.
Willis has also had to deal personal attacks. Trump called her name “Fanny, like your ass,” and Rudy Giuliani called the accuser a “ho.”
“I could drop the ‘whoa’ part if she would just stop and go away,” said Giuliani, who has been suspended in New Yorkand Washington, DC, as a result of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Recently a judge ordered him to transfer several luxury items and ownership of a Manhattan penthouse apartment to two Georgia election workers whom he defamed after the last presidential election.
