Witness In Fani Willis Misconduct Hearing Says Relationship Predates Trump Case
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Willis is accused of having an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
A witness in the misconduct hearing regarding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade testified Thursday that the two were in a romantic relationship long before Willis hired Wade to help litigate Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
Robin Yeartie, a college friend and former colleague of Willis, told the court the two “met at a conference” and began dating in 2019.
That’s three years before Wade previously testified the two began dating, in 2022, after Willis had hired him to work for the DA’s office.
Wade attempted to address the discrepancy when he took the stand after Yeartie, emphasizing that in prior testimony he was asked if he’d engaged in a relationship “during the course of [his] marriage.”
He told the court his marriage “was irretrievably broken” in 2015 after his wife at the time had an affair, but they agreed to postpone the divorce until after their youngest child went to college.