Former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a motion in his Georgia 2020 election subversion case to “adopt and supplement” a request by a co-defendant to disqualify Fulton County prosecutors and dismiss the indictment over an alleged “improper” relationship.

Trump’s lawyers filed their motion telling Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee that the former president is adopting co-defendant Mike Roman’s Jan. 8 motion that alleged “an improper intimate personal relationship” between District Attorney Fani Willis and her hired special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The motion claimed that “taxpayer monies were used by Wade to take the DA on lavish vacations.”

In a court filing earlier this month, Roman alleged that Willis and Wade engaged in an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” that involved Wade allegedly paying for vacations for himself and Willis and claiming that the special prosecutor has been paid more than $650,000 by the district attorney despite his lack of relevant experience to take on such a high-profile case.

Willis defended Wade during a speech in front of a church congregation on January 14 by saying that he is qualified for the job and claiming that she and Wade are being targeted because of race, asking, “Isn’t it them playing the race card?”

Trump’s lawyers likened Willis’s remarks to “extrajudicial statements designed to defend against, as well as divert and deflect attention from, the alleged misconduct outlined in Roman’s motion,” according to their six-page motion.

Last week, a judge unsealed records filed in Cobb County Superior Court by Wade’s wife, Joycelyn Wade, as part of her divorce case. The records included copies of credit card statements that show Wade purchased airline tickets for himself and Willis, including for trips to Miami in October 2022 and San Francisco in April 2023. Those payments also show details about payments to cruise lines and hotels in Aruba and Napa Valley, California; however, additional details about the trips aren’t available in court records.

The former president’s motion comes as Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, told CNN on Thursday that she is planning to subpoena Willis, Wade, and a current and former law partner of Wade for the Feb. 15 court hearing to deliberate Roman’s motion, which will be live-streamed online. Willis is also fighting against a subpoena for her deposition in the divorce case. That subpoena has been temporarily stayed pending further proceedings in the Cobb County divorce case.

“We’ve got a lot of information. We’ve got a lot of documents and a lot of witnesses,” Merchant told CNN.

Meanwhile, a hearing in the Fulton County Superior Court was held Thursday over Trump co-defendant Jeff Clark’s efforts to obtain correspondence between Willis’s office and the Justice Department, as well as with President Joe Biden’s White House counsel. McAfee indicated he was open to allowing Clark, a former DOJ official under Trump, to access those communications between Willis’s office and the federal government.

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Trump and 18 others were initially charged in the racketeering case brought by Willis in August 2023. Four co-defendants have since pleaded guilty as part of deals they struck with prosecutors: Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall and lawyers Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis. Trump and the remaining defendants in the case have each pleaded not guilty.