Furious Fani Willis insists ‘physical’ relationship with Nathan Wade ended before she hired him in extraordinary hearing where she told Trump lawyer ‘I don’t want to emasculate a black man’ and claimed she didn’t know locations of their lavish ‘work’ trips

Nearly 90 minutes after her dramatic testimony in a Georgia courthouse, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave a nuanced response, indicating that her “physical” affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade ended before Donald Trump and 18 associates were charged with a conspiracy to commit murder. extortion.

But it was not entirely clear whether the relationship itself had completely ended before the charges were filed.

Deep into her testimony about the “romantic” relationship she didn’t tell colleagues and when it began, Wills was pressured when the couple split after revelations that they were an item blew open Trump’s prosecutions in Georgia.

“The romantic relationship ended before charges were filed – yes or no?” Trump attorney Steven Sadow asked Friday at a Fulton County courthouse.

“For a man, yes,” she said, indicating that the “physical” relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade had ended by then.

‘For a man yes, for you no?’ Sadow followed.

“Does the upcoming indictment have anything to do with that?” he pressed.

Willis had expressed her views on gender differences, which were crucial to her response. It was one of several times the prosecutor offered salient and sometimes irrelevant information during the blockbuster hearing — including her preference for Gray Goose vodka, the fact that she had a stash of up to $15,000 in cash in her home, and didn’t dare guess which continent Belize was on after traveling there with her crush.

“Let’s move on and have a conversation,” Willis said.

‘Mr. Wade is used to women, as he once told me: the only thing a woman can do for him is make him a sandwich. …I don’t need anything from a man. A man is not a plan. A man is a companion,” Willis said.

‘I don’t need anyone to pay my bills. The only man who has ever paid my bills in full is my father.”

“So it’s clear that the physical relationship ended before the charges,” Sadow asked her.

“I’m not sure if the difficult conversation happened after that, but the physical relationship – I’m sure if you asked Mr. Wade, because he’s a man, he would say we ended June or July, because physically contact then ended,” she explained.

‘I think, as a woman, when you have such a difficult conversation, it’s over. I just think women and men think differently.”

In both scenarios, DA and the prosector who signed a contract to help lead her team were jointly committed to the task, even while in a relationship.

Wade and Willis each testified that the romantic relationship began in 2022, after she landed him.

They also both said they met at a judicial conference in 2019, although Willis emphatically denied having contact with Wade at the time.

“I am not on trial no matter how hard you try to bring me to justice,” she told Merchant.

Sadow also questioned Wade about the end of the relationship, asking if he had done so ‘any personal relationship’ at that time.

“Are you asking me if I had intercourse with the prosecutor?” Wade shot back.

“The answer would be no.”

‘You say personal. We are very good friends,” he told Sadow. “Probably closer than ever because of these attacks. But if you ask me about specific intercourse, the answer is no.’

Although attorneys often coach witnesses to give short answers on the stand, Willis gave long answers full of tidbits while expressing obvious anger at some attorneys who questioned her.

About her outings with Wade and the meals and drinks they talked about, she said he likes wine.

‘To be honest, I don’t really like wine. I love Gray Goose,” she admitted.

Sadow also pressured her at the start of her relationship, after Ashleigh Merchant and other attorneys tried to establish that the couple was dating before they claimed and before Wade was hired.

“Have you had any contact with Mr. Wade in 2020,” Sadow asked her.

She said they had “very limited contact” due to “a form of cancer that makes your claim somewhat ridiculous.”

“I’m not going to disempower a black man,” she told him, repeating the phrase pointedly. ‘Did you understand that?’ she asked.

Willis also said she knew no details of the locations of Wade’s work trips, and spoke in detail about four trips she said they had taken together. She said she booked cruises through a travel agent and reimbursed him for one excursion with $2,500 cash.

‘Let’s take the trip to Belize for example. That was a birthday trip for me, so I didn’t pay anything for that trip,” she said of the 50th anniversary extravaganza.

At one point, Sadow asked about the “money horde” that took them to different locations. “The money would be where I laid my head.”

When he said “horde,” she said, “I thought you said something else.”

“As a woman, you should always have at least six months’ worth of cash in your home,” she advised. She said her father, who wants to call Merchant as a witness, “bought me a lock box and I have cash in the house.”

“If you’re a woman going on a date with a man, you better have $200 just in case,” she further advised.

Willis said she had $500 in cash on her “worst days.” “On my best days, I probably had $15,000 in the house, cash,” she said.

At another point, she said she had $9,000 at home.

The details came during a dramatic hearing before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on whether Willis’ office should be disqualified from the case.

Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused of a variety of racketeering and other charges related to Trump’s attempt to overturn the election results in the state, which favored Joe Biden.