Fani T. Willis born on 27th October 1971, is an American attorney from the state of Georgia. She is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia. She is the first woman to hold the office of Fulton County district attorney. Willis is a member of the Democratic party. She graduated from Howard University and the Emory University of Law.
Fani’s career began when she started working as a prosecutor in the Fulton County district attorney’s office. She worked as a prosecutor for 16 years. In 2018, she went into private practice. Fani began her political career when she ran for a seat on the Fulton County Superior Court in 2018 and lost. Later in 2020, Willis was elected district attorney for Fulton County, defeating Paul Howard, a six-term incumbent and her former boss.
Details about the Fani Willis investigation centred around Donald Trump
On February 10, 2021, Willis launched a criminal investigation into a telephone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other attempts by Donald Trump to influence Georgia election officials, including the governor and the attorney general.
In 2022, Fani requested a special jury to be set to consider investigating and pressing charges of election interference by Trump and his allies. Fani will be investigating Donald Trump’s interference in Georgia.
An Atlanta district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results has summoned half a dozen officials from the Georgia secretary of state’s office to investigate Trump and his allies’ involvement in the context of election interference in Georgia.
The jury that has been appointed is set to begin working on 1st June 2022. The Fulton County district attorney’s office has ramped up its investigative activity. Fani Willis has called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Interim Deputy Secretary of State Gabe Sterling, General Counsel Ryan Germany, former Elections Director Chris Harvey, Legislative Liaison Victoria Thompson and former Chief Investigator Frances Watson to take part in the investigation against Trump.
Willis has spoken to Brad Raffensperger about the call he had with Trump. Several staffers in the office have already had voluntary conversations with Fulton County investigators and handed over relevant documents and recordings. Raffensperger has said that he will corporate in the investigation.
Willis is not only restricting her investigation to Trump but also to Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Guiliani and Trump’s other allies. Fani is also investigating the 6th January 2021 U.S. Capitol attack. Though many people have tried to bring Trump down since he made claims about the election that was stolen from him. Most of the people who tried to pull Trump down have failed miserably. Trump is most likely to contest the 2024 presidential election. Most Republicans are sure that Trump will win the elections and fulfil his agenda of Making America Great Again.
