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By Khaleda Rahman
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, has called Representative Jim Jordan from Ohio a "clown" who is trying to interfere in the prosecution.
Earlier this year, the House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation into Willis' office's use of federal funds. Jordan, the Republican chair of the committee and Trump ally, later threatened to hold her in contempt of Congress if she did not comply with a subpoena for documents.
"Jim Jordan has time after time after time attacked my office with no legitimate purpose," Willis said during an interview on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday.
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"Anyone who knows Jim Jordan's history knows that he only has the purpose of trying to interfere in a criminal investigation."
Newsweek has contacted Jordan's office for comment via email.
Willis said Jordan was continuing the attacks on her office while neglecting the district he represents in Ohio.
"We have complied with his subpoenas, but yet he continues his attacks to try to interfere in a criminal investigation," she said. "All while his jurisdiction has one of the worst crime rates, has poverty issues, and not one time has he used his position to try to investigate people who are attacking me and others who are attacking others legitimately doing their job, making him illegitimate in his position. And it's disgusting."
Willis went on to say that those at the state level are now following Jordan's lead in attacking her.
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"Now, at the state level, they've decided to follow this clown's lead," she said. "And they want to now try to interfere in an investigation and it's not legitimate either and so it shall fail and it's not going to go anywhere, but they are trying to attack me at every level."
Willis is facing a challenger in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. If she wins, she will go up against a Republican candidate in the fall. If she or Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is also facing a primary challenge, are ousted from office, it could further slow the case, which has already been delayed by attempts to remove Willis from the prosecution.
Willis said she remains undeterred despite the death threats she has received and the pressure from Republicans at the state and federal level prevent her from doing her job.
"I need people around the country to support me, big and small, to say that we are going to be a country that still believes in the rule of law," she said.
"We are not going to allow people to be attacked while they do their job. Having prosecutors that are free from interference and are allowed to just look at cases, look at the facts and if people broke the law to bring charges, has to go on for us to live in a free society. The sad part though for all of them, Miss Maddow, is it doesn't matter how many times they attack me. I am not going to be broken and I am going to still be standing here doing my job, lawfully."
Trump was charged alongside 18 co-defendants over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia, one of four criminal prosecutions he is facing as he seeks to win back the White House in November. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Earlier this year, Judge McAfee allowed Willis to stay on the case after several defendants took issue with the fact that Willis had been in a personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, They moved to have her booted from the case over the alleged conflict of interest. Willis and Wade have admitted to the relationship, which they say ended in the summer of 2023. They argued it had no bearing on the case.
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