So, the attempt to disqualify Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump for election interference in Georgia is a complete sideshow, but unfortunately a sideshow of the prosecutor’s own making.

Jesus Christ, will we ever get the chance to prosecute this guy while he engages in diversionary tactic after diversionary tactic?

Willis is the District Attorney for Fulton County, the county in which Atlanta is located. She’s a tough cookie: a career prosecutor, her father John C. Floyd III is a founder of a faction of the Black Panthers, but eventually became a defense attorney. She’s not one to back down at the first sign of trouble.

So just to summarize, Willis is accused of having a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the attorney she hired to lead the prosecution of Trump and his co-defendants.  One of those 18 co-defendants heard about the alleged romantic relationship through one of the attorneys representing Wade’s wife in a bitter divorce proceeding. A question which is under dispute is whether the romantic relationship — which has already ended — started before Wade was hired or (as Willis and Wade maintain) months after he was hired.

What does this have to do with Trump’s guilt or innocence?

Not a fucking thing.

There is a potential conflict of interest, however, if Willis benefited financially from her relationship with Wade. Trump’s defenders claim that she did when he paid for vacations that they went on together; Wilis and Wade maintain that she paid him back, in cash. Willis does not have ATM receipts for withdrawals because, she says, she keeps a lot of cash at home, something she inherited from her cautious father. (This is something, I am told, is not uncommon in the African-American community.)

If she (and her office) were to be disqualified, the case would have to be assigned to another prosecutor, who could continue the case, amend the charges, or decide (in theory) not to prosecute at all. It would be up to Pete Skandalakis, the Executive Director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take up the case.

In any case, it would probably delay the case after the November election.

How ironic it would be if Trump — who has more conflicts of interest than a peacock has feathers — would be saved by one prosecutor’s potential conflict of interest.

This guy has more political lives than a clowder of cats!

Not all is lost yet: for now, it doesn’t look like the judge is inclined to disqualify Willis. But why did she have to be so much of an idiot that it’s even a possibility?

C’mon Fani, our democracy is at stake! Keep it together and don’t do anything that jeopardizes your prosecution of Ex-President Pussy Grabber.