Romance plot climax: Prosecutor can stay on Trump case if dy, ex-BF, quits

The

Georgia judge

overseeing Donald Trump's trial on charges of trying to overturn his election defeat in the US state said that lead prosecutor

Fani Willis

can remain on the case, so long as she removes a deputy she had a personal relationship with.
Judge Scott McAfee's decision caps a tumultuous two months for Fulton county district attorney Willis, whose

romantic relationship

with

Nathan Wade

, the special

prosecutor

she appointed to lead the case, was disclosed in a Jan court filing by a Trump co-defendant.

Trump and allies alleged that some of the $650,000 Wade has been paid to work on the case was used to take Willis on "lavish vacations", including a Caribbean cruise and Napa Valley tour.
Although the decision is a setback for Trump and his 14 co-defendants who had been seeking to have the case dismissed, Willis emerges from weeks of embarrassing hearings and headlines with a bruised reputation that could colour the views of a future jury, making convictions more difficult.