Fani Willis accused of lying about relationship timeline with Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade: bombshell court filing
Embattled District Attorney Fani Willis has been accused of lying about the timeline of her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade in a bombshell new court filing.
Mike Roman, who alongside Donald Trump is being charged with election fraud by Wade and Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, made a late Friday filing in the case.
In it, his lawyers claim Wade’s former law partner Terrence Bradley will testify their romantic relationship began before he was appointed to prosecute in 2021, according to the Washington Post.
“The romantic relationship between Wade and Willis began prior to Willis being sworn as the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia in January 2021,” the filing reads.
“Thus, Bradley can confirm that Willis contracted with Wade after Wade and Willis began a romantic relationship, thus rebutting Wade’s claim in his affidavit that they did not start dating until 2022.”
The filing comes as part of Roman’s efforts to disqualify Willis, Wade and the district attorney’s office from the case, arguing the pair’s affair presented a professional conflict of interest which has bled into the former President’s election interference case.
Willis admitted last week to having a “personal relationship” with Nathan Wade, who stands accused by Roman in previous filings of spending some of the $654,000 he has earned for his work on the Trump case on lavish gifts and vacations with his boss.
Willis insisted there were no grounds to toss the Trump case, however, because she claimed the romance didn’t start up until 2022 — well after she tapped Wade to lead the prosecution in 2021.
However, Bradley a former friend and business associate of Wade, could “refute that claim” with information proving they were romantically linked as far back as 2020, Roman wrote.
“If, as Bradley confirms, Willis and Wade were in a romantic relationship before she even took office, Wade likely provided Willis with significant other gifts and benefits,” the filing states.
“Of course, the State and Wade have now filed motions to quash Mr. Roman’s lawful subpoenas in an attempt to prevent discovery of these facts.”
The bombshell documents come just two days after the district attorney’s office filed a motion seeking to block Roman’s subpoenas for Willis, Wade and others, including Bradley, to testify under oath at a Feb. 15 hearing.
The filing also includes new details about Willis and Wade’s vacations and travels together, including that Wade spent thousands of dollars on at least five trips for them — including two previously unknown cruises to the Bahamas and a trip to Belize.
Roman had already exposed other trips the duo took together to Miami and Northern California, but Willis claimed the pair alternated when paying travel expenses.
“When the lines get blurred between a prosecutor’s interest in her personal fame and publicity and her public duty, the system breaks down, as does the public’s confidence in the process itself, which threatens to undermine the public’s confidence in the outcome,” Roman’s filing states.
Roman has made Willis and Wade’s romance a focal point in his attempts to get the election interference case against him and Trump tossed, claiming there it posed a major conflict of interest and alleging Willis was guilty of financial misconduct.
Willis called the allegations “salacious” and said they “garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain.”
Wade filed for divorce from his wife of 26 years on the same day he was appointed special prosecutor in 2021, but the case has yet to be fully resolved.
Former president Trump, the current GOP presidential frontrunner, is charged with more than a dozen felonies along with 14 co-defendants for their alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in The Peach State to President Biden.
