| Will the Fulton County D.A.’s “clandestine” relationship derail her effort to prosecute Trump?  Photograph by David Walter Banks Among the four major criminal indictments filed against Donald Trump last year, the case mounted in Georgia against the former President and eighteen co-conspirators, regarding an alleged fake-elector conspiracy, is perhaps the most ambitious in scope. It is also, according to some, the one that puts Trump in the greatest legal peril. Yet the case has taken an odd detour, with the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, accused of impropriety for her relationship with Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor in the case. As Charles Bethea reports from Fulton County, Willis’s hiring of Wade to run the investigation raised eyebrows from the start. “It was weird,” a local criminal-defense attorney said. “I’ve been practicing for decades here. So has my partner. We’d never heard of this guy, and suddenly he’s lead counsel in a monumentally important case.” Is the scandal in Georgia a matter of “bad optics” or something more troubling? And what does the controversy mean for the election case against Trump? Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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