Fani Willis Tears Into Marjorie Taylor Greene

In her first public speech since she was accused of being romantically involved with a prosecutor she hired to be on Donald Trump's Georgia election racketeering case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for the vitriol she has directed towards her.

"Dear God, I do not want to be like those that attacked me," Willis said during a speech made in front of the congregation of a historic Black church in Atlanta on Sunday. "I never want to be a Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has never met me, but has allowed her spirit to be filled with hate."

While Willis did not directly confirm nor deny whether she had been in a relationship with Nathan Wade, in her 35-minute speech she suggested that racism was at the heart of the allegations against her and the outside attorney, a Black man. The Fulton County DA was also accused of profiting financially from hiring Wade.

"I don't think either of us at the time had an idea what I would inherit or gain as I became a DA," she said on Sunday, nearly a week after the allegations first emerged.

"A divorced single mom who doesn't belong to the right social groups, doesn't necessarily come from the right family, doesn't have the right pedigree. The assignment was just too high for lowly me," she said.

"Seven of the highest profile cases in the United States going to land right here? No, please make it stop. God, you forgot to mention that my life and the life of my family would be threatened so regularly, I now think it's not normal if I don't have two death threats a week," Willis said addressing congregants at Big Bethel AME Church.

"God, you did not tell me that people would call me the N-word more than they call me Fani."

The Fulton County DA then mentioned Greene, who filed a complaint over Willis' alleged affair with Wade but who she said had failed to reach out to her once she started receiving personal threats.

"How does this woman, who has the honor of being a leader in my state, how is it that she has not reached out to me?" Willis asked. "She can tell me, I don't agree with anything you're doing, but I do not agree with people threatening your life or the life of your family."

In an interview with Fox Business last week, Greene spoke of sending a letter to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the state Attorney General Chris Carr to launch a criminal investigation into Willis and Wade.

"I just sent a criminal referral requesting an immediate investigation into Fani Willis and her alleged secret boyfriend, Nathan Wade, to Gov. Brian Kemp and AG Chris Carr," she wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, sharing a clip of the interview.

"Georgians are sick and tired of Fani using her office to go after [President] Joe Biden's top political opponent rather than going after real crime in Georgia," she added.

Newsweek contacted a Greene spokesperson for comment by email on Monday and called the Fulton County DA's office on the same day, but the office remains closed until January 16.