Willis said she would direct her office to make the case file and evidence available to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia so it can appoint a new prosecutor to replace her.

“I hope that whoever is assigned to handle the case will have the courage to do what the evidence and the law demand,” Willis said in an emailed statement.

But, Trump, who has remarked at the White House he was “once the hunted, now he’s the hunter,” called Tuesday for Willis to be prosecuted.