Investigator Nathan Wade resigns to continue the case against Trump for alleged electoral interference in Georgia

MADRID, 16 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Special investigator Nathan Wade submitted his resignation late this past Friday as demanded by the investigating judge in the case against former US President Donald Trump for alleged electoral interference in Georgia.

Judge Scott McAfee had ruled that Wade would have to leave his post after the magistrate found the existence of the "appearance of an improper relationship" between the investigator and Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis, champion of the case against Trump.

The relationship was revealed by a lawyer for a co-defendant with Trump. According to testimony presented by the lawyer, Wade took Willis on vacation after she assigned him as a special investigator in the case against the former president and conservative activist Mike Roman.

Judge McAfee, although he found that this relationship was irregular, also understood that Trump's defense has not provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate that it conditioned the process against the former president.

Thus, to "eliminate all appearance" of this relationship, as ordered by the magistrate, Wade has resigned effective immediately, Willis' office said in a statement.

"I want to congratulate you for the professionalism and dignity that you have shown," said the prosecutor, who has taken the opportunity to denounce "threats" against Wade and his family since the beginning of the process against the former president, as well as "unjustified attacks in the media and in the courts on his reputation as a lawyer.

In the case of Georgia, Trump is accused of illegally pressuring state officials to annul his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 elections. The former president has pleaded innocent and denounced that he feels like a victim of a "witch hunt" undertaken in this case by Willis, whom he described as "out of control" and "very corrupt."