Fani Willis

Potentially damning text messages about Fani Willis-Nathan Wade affair disallowed as evidence in blow to Trump

Potentially damning text messages detailing when Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ affair with Nathan Wade began won’t be considered by a judge when he rules on whether the top prosecutor should be thrown off the Trump election fraud case — in a blow to former president’s case.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Friday text messages between Wade’s former divorce attorney Terrence Bradley and another defense lawyer couldn’t be admitted as evidence because Bradley spilled information that was covered under attorney-client privilege.

Fani Willis taking stand to testify in hearing that could disqualify her from Trump election case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand Thursday to defend herself from efforts to remove her from the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump, angrily pushing back against what she described as “lies” about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor.

Willis agreed to testify in the extraordinary hearing that could result in her being disqualified from the case over her relationship with attorney Nathan Wade, which defense attorneys have described as a conflict of interest.

Fani Willis friend contradicts start of ‘romantic’ relationship with Nathan Wade

A longtime friend of Fulton County (Ga.) District Attorney Fani Willis (D) testified Thursday that Willis began a “romantic” relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade in 2019 — three years prior to when Willis and Wade said they started seeing each other. 

Robin Yeartie, a college friend of Willis’s, said the prosecutors’ relationship began shortly after a municipal court conference in October 2019 and remained constant until she stopped speaking with Willis in 2022.

Georgia Trump Case: Pivotal Hearing Could Stall Prosecution of Election Interference

At the heart of the effort to disqualify the prosecutors in Donald J. Trump’s election interference case is the argument that the romantic relationship between Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and Nathan J. Wade, the special prosecutor she hired, created a conflict of interest. That argument has been put forth primarily by Ashleigh Merchant, the lawyer for Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official and a co-defendant in the case. Ms. Merchant accuses the district attorney of hiring Mr. Wade after they became romantically involved, and notes...

Bid to remove prosecutors sets up turning point in Trump’s Georgia case

The fate of Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution in Georgia may hinge on the details of a romantic relationship between two of the prosecutors running the case — and which version of events the judge believes.

At a hearing on Thursday, Judge Scott McAfee will gather evidence on the relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade as the judge considers a bid by Trump and his co-defendants to toss the prosecutors from the case.

Trump co-defendant accused of seeking 'salaciousness for a tabloid' in Fani Willis probe

Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade fired back at one of Donald Trump's co-defendants for seeking bank records. In a on Thursday, Wade told Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee that co-defendant Mike Roman was using a subpoena to find dirt on him. "This Court's job is not to help Roman and his attorney sift through the personal records of the prosecuting attorney in hopes of finding something they could spin into salaciousness for a tabloid," Wade wrote. "In short, nothing would be —or could be gained from allowing production of...

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