House GOP unable to find disgraced Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade to issue subpoena amid Fani Willis probe
Republicans are trying to serve a subpoena on former special counsel Nathan Wade, but they have no idea where he is.
The House Judiciary Committee is seeking to force the disgraced prosecutor to testify about his personal relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after it emerged the two were in a relationship last year.
Willis, the prosecutor in Trump’s Georgia election interference case, said their affair was in the past, but police bodycam footage showed they were together when Willis’ daughter Kinaya was arrested on Aug. 24.
Willis has been surrounded by scandal since their romantic and financial relationship came to light after she appointed him as special prosecutor in the case.
Trump has accused Willis of showing “racial animus” toward him and called her case “a calculated attempt” to criticize him and “alienate himself.”
Meanwhile, Wade is still nowhere to be found. The House Judiciary Committee has said it has not found him for days.
The House Judiciary Committee has failed to find former special prosecutor Nathan Wade to serve him with a subpoena, likely to force the disgraced Fulton County prosecutor to testify about his relationship with DA Fani Willis. The pair are seen together in August 2023
Willis, the person who brought the case against Trump in the Georgia election, has said their affair was in the past, but police bodycam footage showed them together when Willis’ daughter Kinaya was arrested on August 24. A still from the arrest can be seen here
“It is extremely unusual for Nathan Wade to evade military service and the committee will have to spend U.S. tax dollars to track him down,” a House Judiciary Committee spokesman said in a statement.
A Republican attorney familiar with the case said in the meantime The Washington Examiner that the US Marshals Service has been unable to locate Wade for days – and that “at this point we know he is attempting to evade the service.”
The insider called the attorney’s actions “clearly dilatory,” coming months after a judge ordered him to step down as prosecutor in the election interference case so Willis could stay on.
Committee spokesman Russell Dye further confirmed The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the committee has called in the US Marshals to locate him and serve him a subpoena so he can appear at Thursday’s hearing in Washington.
“The Judiciary Committee has issued over 100 subpoenas this Congress,” Dye said.
“We’ve done that largely without controversy or the need to call in the U.S. Marshals.”
He reiterated how American taxpayer money will now be spent “to locate him,” while Wade’s own attorney, Andrew Evans, told the Journal-Constitution that his client “has nothing of interest” to the committee.
Trump has accused Willis of making a “public display of racial animus” against him, calling her case “a calculated attempt” to convict him and “alienate himself”
“This is all about political theater,” the attorney said in a statement. “Doesn’t Jim Jordan have more important things to do?”
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which is seeking to investigate Willis’s handling of the election lawsuit against Trump and several of his supporters.
Trump alleges Willis, 52, is trying to influence the 2024 election. He previously pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other charges that prosecutors say were part of a scheme to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat in Georgia.
The case has been on hold since June while a Georgia appeals court considers whether the lead prosecutor, Willis, should be disqualified for alleged misconduct related to her romantic relationship with Wade, who resigned in March.
The pair looked strikingly similar to one seen a few weeks ago in police bodycam footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com. The footage was filmed together at the scene where her pregnant daughter was arrested for allegedly driving while her license was suspended.
The footage shows them arriving in a black Ford SUV and then approaching a group of officers on the side of the road in Tyrone, Georgia.
The agents believe the two are Kinaya’s mother and father, but Willis corrects them, describing the 51-year-old Wade — who resigned as her special prosecutor when their affair came under public scrutiny — as “just a friend.”
Kinaya’s older sister Nia, 26, a passenger in her brother’s silver Nissan Altima, had called their mother after the 7:03 p.m. arrest.
By the time Willis and Wade pulled up, her daughter was already en route to the Fayette County Jail, 30 minutes south of Atlanta, on a misdemeanor charge of driving on a revoked or suspended license.
She was released later that day and Wade has not been photographed in public since.
In a letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan explained that Wade’s attorney Evan had already agreed a week ago, on September 18, for his client to voluntarily participate in a transcribed interview.
However, the meeting never happened – Jordan revealed how Evans had asked for a postponement days beforehand, before later telling Wade was not scheduled to appear due to concerns raised by former Governor Roy Barnes.
Barnes, who is also an attorney, is representing Willis in the upcoming case, which has been decried by prosecutors as an attempt by House Republicans to “obstruct a criminal proceeding in Georgia and make outrageous misrepresentations.”
Reports of her relationship with Wade first surfaced in January, prompting a series of requests for documents related to his work on the ongoing prosecution of Trump.
In the bodycam footage, officers mistake the pair for Kinaya’s mother and father, but Willis corrects them, describing the 51-year-old Wade as “just a friend.”
Kinaya Willis, 25, the daughter of the Fulton County district attorney, was handcuffed before being booked into the Fayette County Jail for driving on a suspended license.
In a letter to the committee sent a few weeks ago, Barnes alleged that Willis had objected to Wade providing the documents, calling the demands “inappropriate.”
Barnes also asked the prosecution to have a representative present at Wade’s interrogation so Willis could “protect sensitive and confidential information related to ongoing criminal matters.”
“Any interview with Mr. Wade could compromise classified grand jury information, confidential investigative sources, and information protected by attorney-client privilege, working papers, and deliberations, among other things,” Barnes wrote.
Meanwhile, the congressional investigation continues, while some continue to criticize an effort by Trump’s allies to undermine Willis’s prosecution of the politician.
Her case took a hit earlier this month when a Georgia judge dismissed two criminal charges in the election interference case, as well as another charge against co-defendants who had also pleaded not guilty.
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that prosecutors lacked standing to bring the charges, which allege filing false documents in federal court.
The ruling means that five of the original 13 charges against Trump in last year’s indictment have been dropped.
McAfee dismissed six other charges in March, including three against Trump.
Trump’s attorney Steve Sadow said in a statement that the recent ruling shows that Trump and his legal team “have prevailed once again.”