EXCLUSIVE: Responding to the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision to disqualify “corrupt” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her team, President-elect Trump told Fox News Digital that the case was “totally closed” and that the “wonderful patriots who were caught.” “Implicated in this for years themselves” should “receive an apology.”

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday barred Willis and her team from prosecuting Trump and his co-defendants in their election interference case.

President-elect Trump reacts during his meeting with Prince William on December 7, 2024 in Paris. (Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

The court did not dismiss the charges, but declared that Willis and her team now had “no authority to proceed.”

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Trump said the “whole case was a disgrace to the justice system.”

“It was launched by Biden’s Justice Department as an attack on his political opponent Donald Trump,” he said. “They took advantage of anyone and everyone, and she got disqualified, and her boyfriend got disqualified, and they stole money and kept traveling.”

Trump said the case “should not proceed.”

In this handout from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, former President Trump poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images)

“There’s no way corrupt people like that can run a case and then it gets taken over by someone else,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “It was a corruption case, so how could it be taken over by someone else?”

District Attorney Fani Willis during a hearing in the case against former President Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024 in Atlanta. (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)

“The case must be dismissed because it was corruptly initiated by an incompetent prosecutor who received millions of dollars through her boyfriend – who received it from her – and then they kept going on cruises,” Trump said, referring to Willis’ Relationship with a former special prosecutor on her team, Nathan Wade.

Willis hired Wade, her alleged partner, to prosecute Trump and profited from it financially from the relationship In the form of vacation, the two took money that his law firm received for working on the case.

Willis previously said that allegations against her of having an “inappropriate” romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade stemmed from the fact that she is Black. (Getty Images)

“That’s why the case is completely dead,” Trump said. “Everyone should receive an apology, including the wonderful patriots who have been involved for years.”

Willis’ office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Trump spokesman and incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital: “In issuing an overwhelming mandate to President Trump, the American people have called for an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a rapid end to all witch hunts.” him.”

“We look forward to uniting our country as President Trump makes America great again,” Cheung said.

Willis has excluded Trump from her investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. Trump was accused One count was a violation of the Georgia RICO Act, three counts were criminal solicitation, six counts were criminal conspiracy, one count was filing false documents, and two counts were making false statements.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.

And on Thursday, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that the trial court “erred by failing to disqualify Attorney Willis and her office.”

“The remedy devised by the trial court to prevent a persistent appearance of impropriety did nothing to eliminate the appearance of impropriety that existed at a time when Attorney General Willis exercised her broad pretrial discretion over who should be prosecuted and what charges should be filed “, says the decision. The court explained that while it recognized that “an appearance of impropriety is generally not sufficient to justify disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is ordered and no other remedy is sufficient to maintain public confidence.” to restore the integrity of this process.”

“Accordingly, we reverse the trial court’s denial of appellants’ motion to disqualify Attorney Willis and her office,” the filing states. “Because we conclude that the elected district attorney is completely disqualified from this case, ‘the assistant district attorneys – whose sole authority to prosecute a case derives from the constitutional authority of the district attorney who appointed them – have no authority to proceed.’ ‘,” the decision says.