Republican hopeful and accused criminal Donald Trump has criticized Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, saying her affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade was a “major league scandal.”
The former president, 77, turned to Truth Social this morning, calling on her and the others leading what he describes as “this witch hunt” to be “immediately ended and permanently erased from everyone’s memory.”
Fani Willis has been charged with misconduct that could see her removed from the election interference case against Trump, following allegations that she had an affair with Nathan Wade, a married man described as “an old friend” of the district attorney’s office.
She hired his firm, Wade & Campbell, to help run the prosecution for the election subversion case filed in Georgia in August 2023.
The pair were accused in a claim by Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official and co-defendant in the election subversion case, of having “an improper, clandestine personal relationship” and using taxpayer money paid to Wade for his legal services to arrange vacations to finance the Bahamas.
Fani Willis (pictured) has been accused of misconduct that could see her removed from the election interference case against Trump
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“I cannot believe that the Georgia judiciary, or the governor, can take kindly to this humiliating disgrace,” Trump told his Truth Social followers.
“The stench of what happened should no longer shame Georgia. It should go back to GREATNESS, and FAST!!!’
His comments came the day after Willis testified Thursday in a Fulton County courthouse, indicating that her “physical” affair with Wade ended before Donald Trump and 18 of his associates were charged with a racketeering conspiracy.
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.
Wade was asked by a lawyer for Donald Trump about the source of the cash he said Willis gave him, and whether Willis simply took cash from her wallet. “I didn’t ask her,” he said
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, the prosecutor and prosecutor, who signed a contract to help lead her team, were jointly committed to the task even while in a relationship.
Fulton County Attorney Fani Willis made a dramatic appearance in court, saying her “physical” relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade ended before the indictment of Donald Trump in her state
Attorney Steve Sadow and attorney Chris Anulewicz, representing defendant Robert Cheeley, speak among themselves during a break in a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia against Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Sadow pressured Willis when the relationship with Wade ended
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 was “in a personal relationship at all” at the 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.’
Conservative critics poured into the DA almost immediately.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial far-right congresswoman representing Georgia’s 14th District, turned to X and said, “This is EXACTLY why I filed my ethics complaint against Fani Willis and Nathan Wade.
‘Fani Willis admits she has no proof she paid Nathan Wade back for their lavish vacations, but paid the rent through an app! There must be a criminal investigation into her!’