Trump judge denies bid to disqualify Fulton County DA from Georgia case: Live

DA Willis had been subjected to a high-stakes series of hearings in recent weeks after attorneys for the former president and his codefendants called for her disqualification from the case.

In a ruling on Friday morning, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that she should not be disqualified from prosecuting the RICO case – but that either she or special prosecutor Nathan Wade must leave the case.

The monumental ruling comes at the end of a busy week in Mr Trump’s criminal cases.

On Wednesday, Judge McAfee threw out a handful of charges from the original indictment in the Georgia case.

Then, on Thursday, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg asked the judge overseeing the hush-money case against Donald Trump for a 30-day delay in the trial – just 11 days before jury selection was to begin.

The same day, Mr Trump was in court in Florida fighting to have the criminal case into his alleged mishandling of classified documents thrown out.

Judge Aileen Cannon appeared sceptical about the defence arguments and later dismissed one of the motions.

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