Nathan Wade’s Divorce Lawyer Terrence Bradley Says ‘I Can’t Remember’ SEVERAL Times While Questioned About Whether His Prosecutor Client Started Dating Fani Willis Before She Hired Him to Investigate Trump
Nathan Wade’s divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, tied himself in knots Tuesday when he said, “I don’t remember if I lied” and claimed he was “speculating” when he claimed in a bombshell text message that his client of the accuser started dating Fani. Willis before she hired him.
Bradley insisted he could not remember when his former attorney began his relationship with Willis during a hearing that allowed the Fulton County district attorney to dismiss the Donald Trump case.
The key witness said “I don’t remember” at least a dozen times when asked whether Wade and Willis began their romantic relationship before he was hired to prosecute the former president in Georgia.
Bradley also paused when asked point-blank if Wade and Willis had sex in his law office, to which he said, “I don’t remember.”
He admitted writing a text message saying Willis and Wade began dating in 2019 with Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney for Trump’s co-defendant behind the bid to have Willis disqualified from the Georgia election fraud case.
But in a reversal, he insisted he was only “speculating,” insisting under oath that he did not know the date their romantic relationship began.
His dramatic appearance followed dramatic revelations that Wade visited DA Fani Willis’ Georgia district at least 35 times and stayed overnight before hiring him onto the Trump investigation team.
Willis and Wade are sticking to their story that they began their romantic relationship in 2022 after he was tapped to work for her team investigating Trump’s attempt to overturn the election in Georgia. But testimony at the hearing and recent revelations have blown several holes in their claims.
Nathan Wade’s divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, said he couldn’t “remember” when his client and law partner started dating Fani Willis during an on-the-stand conversation at the hearing where the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office tried the Donald case could throw Trump off.
Bradley was elusive when Merchant began questioning him.
He insisted he did not know when Willis and Wade started their relationship, while Merchant criticized Bradley for his claims they started dating in 2019.
“I don’t remember,” he said several times when grilled on the timeline.
At one point he told the court that Wade had confided to him that he was dating Willis during a meeting in their office, but he could not remember when that was.
This conversation, he claimed, was the only time he spoke to Wade about his relationship with Willis.
He admitted in court that he sent Merchant a text message suggesting that Wade started dating Willis before she hired him.
‘That’s written there. Yes,’ he said.
Merchant then handed him a copy of the text message while he was on the stand.
“I don’t remember,” Bradley replied. “I see that message, but I can’t remember.”
“And when I asked you if you thought it started before she hired him, and you said, ‘Absolutely,’” Merchant asked before she was interrupted by an objection.
“Remember when you told me not many people knew where they met,” she said.
She added, “Where did you learn of your deposition that Willis and Wade initiated when she was a judge in South Fulton?”
“I speculated that they were dating at some point,” he said when Merchant pressed.
“I can’t give you a date if you ask for a date,” Bradley said. ‘If you ask me how I get the knowledge, it would come directly from a customer.
“Right now I’m telling you I don’t have the date,” Bradley replied when Merchant continued to press.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade testified in court last week about their romantic relationship
Bradley was shown a text message he sent claiming that Wade and Willis started dating in 2019, but said he “couldn’t remember” and was “speculating”
Bradley tied himself in knots on the stand and at one point said “I don’t remember if I lied” when asked about the relationship, leaving Fani Willis’ future in the Trump case at stake
Bradley also paused when asked point-blank if Wade and Willis had sex in his law office, to which he said, “I don’t remember.”
Bradley was elusive when Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney for one of Trump’s co-defendants, began questioning him. He insisted he did not know when Willis and Wade began their relationship
“He doesn’t remember much at this point,” Merchant told the judge as she continued to question him about the “timeline” of the relationship.
The district attorney’s attorney, Adam Abbate, continually interrupted Merchant with “objections” about “rumors” and privilege.
“A lot of this is based on gossip and innuendo… and privileged information,” Abbate said as she objected to her questioning.
Donald Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow then asked him in a text message “why on earth he would speculate when they started dating.”
“What you want the court to believe, and you want the rest of us to believe, is that for some unknown reason, when you were asked a direct question about when the relationship began, you decided to speculate on your own and write it down. a text message instead of writing down what you actually knew’.
Bradley responded by saying he had “no answer.” Sadow claimed that Bradley knew when the relationship began, but refused to testify.
Bradley took the stand after a meeting between Judge Scott McAfee, who ruled that certain communications between Wade and Bradley are not protected by attorney-client privilege.
Judge McAfee informed the attorneys involved in the case via email about the exclusion of certain communications from attorney-client privilege.
McAfee’s decision came after a closed-door meeting between the judge and Bradley on Monday that lasted more than an hour.
Under fire, Wade watched from the court as his former lawyer came under fire as he began his relationship with Willis
Merchant pressed Bradley on his claims that they started dating as early as 2021, an accusation that was central to the bid to kick Willis off the case
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee revealed that some communications between Wade and Bradley are not confidential or protected by attorney-client privilege
Michael Roman and other co-defendants in Trump’s case want 53-year-old prosecutor Fanni Willis disqualified because of what they call an “inappropriate” relationship.
They cite a financial benefit from a “personal, romantic relationship” with Special Prosecutor Wade, whom she hired for the case.
While Willis and Wade have acknowledged their relationship, they have argued that it “does not amount to a disqualifying conflict of interest” and that the relationship “never directly or indirectly provided any financial benefit to District Attorney Willis.”