Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump illustrates the “weaponization of the justice system,” Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Monday.

Her comments come after former special prosecutor Nathan Wade admitted in a deposition last week that Willis planned to seek charges against Trump before she officially took office in January of 2021.

Lee said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” “The most important thing that I see in this testimony is [Wade’s] acknowledgment that Fani Willis had a plan to investigate and prosecute President Trump before she even took the oath of office. That this was absolutely a thing that they planned, concocted, and implemented before she was even sworn in.

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