Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign attacked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s family following her indictment of Trump on charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
In an email to supporters, the former president’s campaign claimed Willis comes from a family “steeped in hate” as a child of a “former Black Panther.” The email also referenced an article from Time, and the Fulton County website confirmed her family’s background with the 1960s political group.
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“Fani has a seemingly proud family background as an African-American woman,” the government website reads. “As what can now be considered a conscious foreshadowing to her future endeavors, she describes her Swahili name’s intended meaning, saying: ‘My name is actually Fani (fah-nee), Taifa is my middle name, and my last name is Willis. So, my father was a Black Panther, so he was very Afrocentric… my name is Swahili. Fani actually means ‘prosperous,’ and Taifa means ‘people.'”
The former president’s campaign has also criticized her as a “rabid partisan” who slow-walked her charges against Trump to a time that would hurt him the most.
“Fulton County, GA’s radical Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis is a rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments,” the campaign said in a statement following the indictment. “Ripping a page from Crooked Joe Biden’s playbook, Willis has strategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign.”
The campaign statement continued: “The timing of this latest coordinated strike by a biased prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also exposes true motivation driving their fabricated accusations. ”
Willis has stated that she is prepared for the attacks often hurled by Trump following his indictments. She has also instructed her staff to stand down, not respond, and let the facts play out.
The former president and his lawyers, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, were among 19 people named in a 41-count indictment that was released just before midnight on Monday. It accuses the defendants of conspiring to conduct and participate in a “criminal enterprise” following Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Trump himself was indicted on 13 counts, which include racketeering charges, by a grand jury in Fulton County.
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The latest indictment is Trump’s fifth indictment, and it came in his fourth criminal case. In one case, special counsel Jack Smith released a superseding indictment in his federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents.
The late-night proceedings included arrest warrants for those charged, but Willis has given Trump and his cohort until Aug. 25 to turn themselves in. Trump is expected to plead “not guilty.”
