Cough it up: President follows law, asks Fani Willis to reimburse him $6.2 million for legal fees
President Donald Trump, as he is allowed to do under Georgia state law, has filed a request that Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, through her office, reimburse him more than $6.2 million for legal fees and expenses incurred in her failed election interference case against him and others.
Lawmakers in the state adopted a law just last year that determines if a prosecutor is disqualified from a case over improper conduct and the case is dismissed, anyone who faced charges in entitled to recover “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred” in their defense.
Those reimbursements come from the budget of the prosecutor’s office.
In fact, Willis had hired her paramour to be a special prosecutor against Trump, paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars and taking exotic trips with him. First, a judge ruled that special prosecutor had to be removed from the case, then a ruling determined Willis and her entire office had to be removed because of her behavior. And the case was dismissed.
A report at Fox explained, “The development comes after Willis was permanently sidelined from prosecuting the case against Trump last September. She had lost an appeal after the Georgia Court of Appeals said Willis and her office could not continue to prosecute the case, citing an ‘appearance of impropriety’ stemming from her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The case was then dismissed in November.”
Trump seeks to be reimbursed for legal expenses in Fani Willis case, based on recent Georgia law https://t.co/c3uHVYgbwQ
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 8, 2026
Trump seeks more than $6M from Fani Willis’ office in wake of election interference case https://t.co/pCzCipVL2w #FoxNews
— Joni Myers (@JoniMyers18) January 8, 2026
BREAKING: President Donald Trump is seeking more than $6.2 million from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office to cover his attorney fees and litigation costs in the recently dismissed criminal election interference case.
MORE: https://t.co/Afniex1l2o pic.twitter.com/FOMqoTFdcu— Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) January 7, 2026
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lawyer in the case, in which Willis wildly claimed there was an organized crime conspiracy going on, said, “In accordance with Georgia law, President Trump has moved the Court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in his defense of the politically motivated, and now rightfully dismissed, case brought by disqualified DA Fani Willis.”
The total requested is $6,261,613,08 and a judge now will have to review that and make a determination.
Already, Willis has begun battling the requirements of the law, expressing that she doesn’t want to follow it. Another person charged in the case already had submitted a request for reimbursement and she filed a statement claiming the law raises concerns about separation of powers “by purporting to impose financial liability on a constitutional officer, twice elected by the citizens of Fulton County, for the lawful exercise of her core duties under the Georgia Constitution.”
The motion doesn’t explain how her constitutional core duties involve hiring a paramour at taxpayer expens to attack the president.
WorldNetDaily reported recently when Willis was grilled by state lawmakers about the situation.
She disintegrated.
WATCH: Fani Willis just crashed out and pulled the race card when confronted with the documents showing how many tax dollars her office paid her lover Nathan Wade:
“Why don’t you investigate how many times they’ve called me the n word?”
What a total clown! pic.twitter.com/KnWkFzz3xy
— CJ Pearson (@Cjpearson) December 17, 2025
Video shows how she “crashed out” and ended up pulling the “race card” against lawmakers, who may very well be asked to give her state money to cover the catastrophic expenses that were incurred during her failed prosecution.
Confronted with questions about how much she paid, using tax dollars, to her “lover Nathan Wade,” she demanded of the lawmakers, “Why don’t you investigate how many times they’ve called me the N word.”
Incidentally, she admitted she allowed Wade to bill for 160 hours per week. In fact, there are only 168 hours in a seven-day week.
It was the Daily Caller News Foundation that described her as coming apart.
And it was Judge Scott McAfee who agreed to dismiss the case entirely, and now the Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations is asking questions.
She lashed out, bully fashion, and accused them of “trying to intimidate [her] for five years.” She complained that “threats” had made it impossible for her to live in her home for five years.
“You all want to intimidate people from doing the right thing. And you think that you’re going to intimidate me,” Willis complained. “You all have been trying to intimidate me for five years, which is why I have not been able to live in my house for five years because the N-word has been written on my house. Thousands of threats have come to my office.”
Her rant continued, “When someone says something inflammatory that you know is going to cause them to be the victims of crime, you ought to do something about it. But you see, I’m not [Republican Georgia Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene. I ain’t going to quit in a month because somebody threatens me. I took an oath to do the right thing. People came into my community and committed a crime, and I indicted them. And rest assured, if someone else comes in my community and commits a crime, I will indict them again.”
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BREAKING: Fani Willis goes BERZERK when asked how much she paid her lover Nathan Wade while she prosecuted Trump
“Why don’t you investigate how many times they called me the N WORD?! Why don’t you investigate that?”
She’s guilty.pic.twitter.com/A7gcY2k2PQ
— Jack (@jackunheard) December 17, 2025
Fani Willis allowed her boy toy Nathan Wade to bill 160 hours a week during the sham prosecution of President Trump.
160 hours per week. pic.twitter.com/TgpzvEyvHT
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) December 17, 2025
She exhibited some odd behavior, beyond her bullying and belligerence, during the hearing, with one online commenter pointing out she apparently brought a designer bag costing nearly $11,000.
So while testifying before the Georgia Senate, Fani Willis casually brought along a Louis Vuitton LV Fan Bag, a Spring–Summer 2025 runway collector’s piece.
Price tag: $10, 990 pre tax
Not vintage. Not thrifted. Not “old.”
A brand-new, limited runway item most people can’t… pic.twitter.com/NNUMRjqGTC
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) December 17, 2025
DOWN GOES FANI!
Just got done with Fani Willis testifying before the Georgia Senate.Insane responses and dodging questions. Honored to have led the fight to expose her and the witch-hunt she led against Trump.
Help me drain the swamp by sending me to Washington:… pic.twitter.com/yjwUmWAzPG
— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) December 17, 2025
But she had no qualms about condemning lawmakers and boasting about herself.
“I’m the best D.A. in the southeast,” she bragged.
“I’m the best D.A. in the Southeast..” Fani Willis. pic.twitter.com/QneYa1JzIn
— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) December 17, 2025
It is Georgia Code § 17-11-6, enacted this year, that gives every defendant whose charges were dismissed because of prosecutor is unqualified the right to recover “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs” from the budget of the DA’s office itself.
The Trump case is finally dead, but Fani Willis left taxpayers on the hook for millions