Fani Willis In 2020: ‘I Certainly Will Not Be Choosing People To Date That Work Under Me’

Video surfaced late this week of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis promising on the campaign trail in 2020 that she would not date people with whom she worked, which comes as she faces allegations of doing just that.

The Free Beacon discovered video of Willis talking about the subject in April 2020, just months before she was elected.

Willis now faces allegations that a prosecutor she hired, Nathan Wade, in her criminal case against former President Donald Trump, is her lover.

“I certainly will not be choosing people to date that work under me,” she said. “Let me just say that, you know, we are at a place in society where things happen and people’s relationships, a husband and wife, sometimes they are outside relationships, I don’t think that that’s what the community is concerned about.”

“Although there, you know, there might be a moral breaking in that,” she continued. “I think that what citizens are really, really concerned about is if you chose to have inappropriate contact with employees. I mean, there’s nothing that I can say on it, other than it is distracting. It is certainly inappropriate for the number one law enforcement officer in this state. And it just, it really, really saddens me, and it will be very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community have to pay for any of those lawsuits.”

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NEW: Fani Willis, accused of sleeping with the married man she hired at an exorbitant rate to prosecute Trump, promised in 2020 she wouldn't sleep with her staffers.

She also said it would be "unfortunate" if taxpayers had to pay for an elected official's sexual misconduct. pic.twitter.com/sJs0g97yhP

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TRANSCRIPT:

FANI WILLIS: It is saddening to me if young women felt like they came to work and they were, one, even judged for being a woman, but two, if certainly they felt uncomfortable within the workplace. That will not be something that is allowed on my watch. Supervisors under my leadership that are not encouraging and building up my staff will not be supervisors long in my administration. And I certainly will not be choosing people to date that work under me. Let me just say that, you know, we are at a place in society where things happen and people’s relationships, a husband and wife, sometimes they are outside relationships. I don’t think that that’s what the community is concerned about. Although there, you know, there might be a moral breaking in that. I think that what citizens are really, really concerned about is if you chose to have inappropriate contact with employees. I mean, there’s nothing that I can say on it, other than it is distracting. It is certainly inappropriate for the number one law enforcement officer in this state. And it just, it really, really saddens me, and it will be very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community have to pay for any of those lawsuits.