As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continues his bid to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the racketeering case against him, the former president’s legal team filed a brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals, arguing that Willis should be taken off the case due to her “racial rhetoric.”

Steve Sadow, Trump’s legal counsel, told the Washington Examiner that the reply brief filed Monday “persuasively” rebutted the arguments the state made.

In the court filing, the former president’s attorneys argue that Willis should be “disqualified” over her “proven false, incendiary racial rhetoric” in a church speech they say “was calculated to heighten public condemnation of, and thereby prejudice, the defendants in eyes of potential jurors.”

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