Developing: A former friend of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a judge that Willis’ relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade began in 2019, before Willis hired Wade to help with the Georgia election case and earlier than Wade acknowledged in an affidavit.
Robin Yeartie, who also worked for the DA’s office and has not spoken with Willis since Yeartie resigned in 2022, said she had “no doubt” Willis was in a romantic relationship with Wade beginning in 2019 and said she witnessed them in social settings hugging and kissing. Wade is now on the stand.
Wade is now on the stand – and reiterated his earlier statement that the relationship began in 2022, specifically in March of that year. He also said that Willis reimbursed him for travel expenses in cash – and her insistence on paying her own way was sometimes a point of contention in their relationship.
Original story:
A judge in Georgia today will weigh whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from prosecuting the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 14 others.
More than half of the remaining co-defendants facing criminal charges for alleged efforts to interfere with the 2020 election result, including Trump, are now accusing Willis of a conflict of interest and asking Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to dismiss the charges against them.
“Because I think it’s possible that the facts alleged could result in disqualification, I think an evidentiary hearing must occur to establish the record on those core allegations,” McAfee said Monday.
Watch the hearing live here.
The misconduct allegations were first raised in January by co-defendant Michael Roman, a little-known operative employed by the Trump campaign in 2020 who is now facing seven felony charges.
Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, is accusing Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade of…
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