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(…) That hearing went down today, and it could spell the end of Fani.
A Georgia official who is prosecuting Donald Trump began an affair with a top lawyer on the case earlier than she claims, a court has heard.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Nathan Wade have said their relationship started only after she hired him in late 2021.
But a former friend of Ms Willis told the prosecutor’s misconduct hearing that the affair began in 2019.
The claims could upend the election-subversion charges against Mr Trump.
[…]Ms Willis acknowledged in a court filing last week that she had an affair with Mr Wade, but denied it had tainted the Trump proceedings.
Her filing included a sworn affidavit from Mr Wade that said there was no “no personal relationship” between him and Ms Willis “prior to or at the time” he was appointed to the Trump case in November 2021.
But on Thursday morning, a former close friend of Ms Willis told the court in Atlanta, Georgia, that Ms Willis and Mr Wade’s romantic relationship began two years earlier.
Robin Yeartie, a former employee of the Fulton County district attorney’s office, said she had seen the couple “hugging, kissing”.
Julie Kelly was all over this one with a bombshell Twitter thread:
Nathan Wade about to take stand in Fani Willis’ disqualification hearing and this is just too good.
At issue is when Wade-Willis began. Fani claims it began in 2022 but her college friend just testified she had knowledge the affair began in 2019.
Oof—Mike Roman (defendant who uncovered the affair) atty just got Wade to acknowledge he claimed in his divorce proceedings in 2023 that he did not purchase anything including drinks, meals, trips etc for member of opposite sex. That’s not true.
He just admitted he traveled with Fani in 2022 and 2023. Doesn’t recall 2021. So he misled the court in his divorce case.
Wade now outrageously claiming his marriage ended in 2015 bc it was “irretrievably broken” even though HE IS STILL MARRIED. He has lied repeatedly during divorce case.
Now Wade claims he and Fani got together over—you guessed it—racism
It appears that both Fani and Nathan Wade brazenly lied to try to save their flailing Trump case—and their legal careers. Check out this whopper:
Fani Willis paid Nathan Wade in cash for security concerns.
Their lies do not even make sense. pic.twitter.com/LbidgXsWGb— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) February 15, 2024
Welp pretty sure that’s the end of Fani Willis. Nathan Wade said Willis reimbursed him IN CASH for expenses.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) February 15, 2024
Nathan Wade is testifying that Fani Willis carries around tens of thousands in cash to pay for travel
What kind of trap house is Fani running down in ATL?
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) February 15, 2024
Commentators and reporters on the Left already trying to reshape this as an interrogation of a “personal relationship” btw Wade and Willis. It’s just a love story, y’all!
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) February 15, 2024
… but even MSNBC could see the writing on the wall, with a legal commentator on the channel declaring, “I think this case is dead in the water.” Watch:
Legal analyst @CarolinePolisi: “This has been a BOMBSHELL… huge, huge issues here… it’s about lying to the court, it’s about potential financial gain on the part of Fani Willis… the issue is that her credibility is shot… it’s a horrible, horrible look for her.” pic.twitter.com/mOjtZMNgvS
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) February 15, 2024
Legal analyst Caroline Polisi flatly declared on MSNBC that new testimony contradicting Fani Willis’ claims about her relationship with a colleague was “game over for her” in the election fraud trial against former President Donald Trum
[…] “Don’t let the legalese fool you,” she opened. “This is epic. This is monumental. If things are going in the direction we think, Fani Willis lied to the court, it’s game over for her. She will be disqualified. If they had a relationship prior to when they represented truth to the court, it’s a huge deal. I can’t overstate.”Polisi added further context in a statement to Mediaite, saying, “Willis will be disqualified, which means her entire office is disqualified, which means the case will have to be re-assigned and languish with the PAC of Georgia, effectively killing the case. Her credibility is completely shot.”
An anti-Trump former federal prosecutor on MSNBC was hoping they could salvage this thing, but that will require Big Fani to put aside her ego and move her big fanny over so someone else could take over.
An anti-Trump former federal prosecutor on MSNBC was hoping they could salvage this thing, but that will require Big Fani to put aside her ego and move her big fanny over so someone else could take over.
“This is getting ugly and it’s getting messy.”
Former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg speaks at recess in the Fulton County D.A. misconduct hearing. Rosenberg adds, “It might be appropriate for Ms. Willis to consider removing herself from this case now.” pic.twitter.com/AHOqcxvv4D
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 15, 2024
(Read more: Revolver News, 2/15/2024) (Archive)
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAffee will hear evidence on the Michael Roman motion to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade from prosecuting the Trump election interference case. (Full Hearing)