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Fani Willis says fury over conduct in the Trump case has given her 'thicker skin' and calls top Republican Jim Jordan a 'clown' for his 'illegitimate' investigations
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis called Jim Jordan a 'clown' and insisted his investigations into her have 'no legitimate purpose.'
Jordan's Judiciary Committee has pressed forward with investigations into alleged misconduct by Willis' office as she investigates former President Donald Trump's election interference case.
'Jim Jordan has, time after time after time, attacked my office with no legitimate purpose,' Willis told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
'Anyone who knows Jim Jordan's history knows that he only has the purpose of trying to interfere in a criminal investigation.'
Willis is up for re-election on Tuesday.
Earlier this year Jordan threatened Willis with contempt of Congress in order to get her to comply with his probe into her use of federal funds.
That contempt threat was designed to compel Willis to turn over her plans to allegedly misuse a grant worth nearly half a million dollars.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis called Jim Jordan a 'clown' and insisted his investigations into her have 'no legitimate purpose'
Jordan, R-Ohio, previously exposed that Willis' team was planning to misuse a grant earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention to pay for new luxuries including MacBooks and expensive travel.
A whistleblower who came forward with details of the illicit scheme was then fired, Republicans claimed, while issuing a subpoena in February demanding related documents and communications about the alleged $488,000 scheme.
She ended up complying with the probe, but called it 'illegitimate,' and called the Ohio Republican's actions 'disgusting.'
When whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, told Willis of the alleged plot, she was promptly fired, according to the committee's February subpoena.
She was escorted out of the office by seven armed investigators upon her termination.
A February Free Beacon report identified Willis aide Michael Cuffe as the individual behind the alleged scheme to misuse taxpayer dollars.
'[Cuffe] wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, 'We can't do that,'' Timpson told Willis in during a November 19, 2021, meeting, according to a recording of the conversation obtained by the Free Beacon.
'He told everybody … 'We're going to get MacBooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.' I said, 'You cannot do that, it's a very, very specific grant.''I respect that is your assessment,' Willis replied. 'And I'm not saying that your assessment is wrong.'
Willis has courted controversy while prosecuting the county's election interference case against Trump after it was revealed she had a past relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
She escaped with just a slap on the wrist after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dramatically ruled she could stay on the Trump election interference case if Wade removed himself.
Earlier this year Jordan threatened Willis with contempt of Congress in order to get her to comply with his probe into her use of federal funds
Trump and eight of his co-defendants charged in the Georgia state court have since urged the appeals court to overturn McAfee's March ruling, and the appeals court has given Trump's appeal the green light to go ahead.
The court's decision to hear the appeal before trial could cause further delays in the case, one of four criminal prosecutions facing Trump as he seeks to unseat Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 election.
Trump has pleaded not guilty and accused prosecutors of a politically motivated effort to damage his campaign.
The court's decision to hear the case follows testimony inside McAfee's courtroom, which featured an acknowledgement from Willis and former special prosecutor Nathan Wade that they had a sexual relationship.
Lawyers for Donald Trump and multiple co-defendants tried to establish that the affair began before Willis brought Wade onto the case and said it posed a conflict of interest. But Willis said the relationship became romantic later.
The Judiciary Committee has also demanded documents related to Willis' relationship with Wade in January, noting that he had been paid more than $650,000 - at a rate of $250 an hour - to work on the investigation and prosecution of Trump and other federal officials, according to a court filing.
The committee noted federal funds may have been used to pay Wade, granting them jurisdiction to investigate.
The committee also highlighted the 'enormous legal fees' Wade had billed the DA's office for, in one instance, on November 5, 2021, charging for 24 hours of legal work in one day, claiming to have worked all day and night on the prosecution.