OAN’s Brooke Mallory
5:56 PM – Thursday, February 15, 2024
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave a nuanced reaction about 90 minutes after her dramatic testimony in a Georgia courtroom, saying her “physical” relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade was a sign of Donald Trump and 18 co-workers were indicted on racketeering conspiracy charges.
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But it’s unclear whether that relationship had completely dissolved before the shocking indictment.
Ms Wills was asked about her account of a “romantic” relationship, which she had kept secret from colleagues, and when they allegedly broke up.
“The relationship ended before the indictment was returned — yes or no?” President Trump’s lawyer, Stephen Sadow, asked inside the Fulton County Courthouse on Friday.
“As a man, yes,” she replied, insisting that her relationship with Special Counsel Wade had ended by then.
“Yes for men, no for you?” Sadow asked in a follow-up question.
“Does the upcoming indictment have anything to do with that?” he continued.
Ms. Willis’s views on the distinction between men and women were important to her response.
Throughout the sensational hearing, prosecutors frequently provided eye-catching and sometimes superfluous details. Examples include that she loves Gray Goose vodka, that she keeps up to $15,000 in cash in her home, and that after she visited Belize with Wade, she discovered that Belize is on which continent. For example, they did not say whether there was one.
“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 plans. It’s not. The guy’s a buddy,” Willis said.
“I don’t need anyone to pay my bills. The only man who fully covers my bills is my dad,” she continued.
“So it’s clear that the physical relationship ended before the charges were filed,” Sadow asked Willis.
“I don’t know if we didn’t have any difficult conversations until after that, but as far as physical contact, if you ask Mr. Wade, he’s a man, he’ll tell you it ended in June or July.” Because there was.’ And that was it,” she explained.
“As a woman, I think if you have a difficult conversation, it’s over. But I think women and men think differently.”
In both cases, the prosecutor and prosecutor agreed to help lead her team and “shared a commitment to the mission” despite their romantic relationship. Wade and Willis said in their testimony that their romantic relationship began in 2022 after she seduced him. But Willis’ former friend Robin Yearty insisted that was not the case, saying their romance began in 2019.
Nevertheless, the two admitted at a judicial conference in 2019 that they met, even though Willis vehemently disputed that he had any relationship with Wade at the time.
“No matter how much you try to put me on trial, I’m not on trial,” Willis told Ashley Merchant, a lawyer representing Trump’s former campaign manager Michael Roman.
Sadow also asked Wade if they had a “personal relationship” when their relationship ended.
“Are you asking me, have I ever had sex with the district attorney?” Wade shot back.
“The answer is no.”
“You say something personal. We’re very good friends,” Wade told Sadow. “Thanks to these attacks, we’re probably closer than ever. But if you’re asking me about the specific fuck, the answer is no.”
Despite lawyers typically advising witnesses to give concise responses, Willis gave long and digressive responses on the stand, clearly angry with several of the lawyers who questioned him. showed that.
She noted that Wade enjoys wine while talking about travel, dinner, and drinks.
“To be honest, I don’t really like wine. I like Gray Goose,” she continued.
After Merchant and other attorneys tried to prove that the two were dating before the allegations and before Wade was hired, Sadow asked her about when their relationship first began. Asked.
“Did you have any contact with Mr. Wade in 2020?” Sadow asked Willis.
In response, she said their contact had been “very limited” because “it’s a form of cancer and your claims are a bit ridiculous.”
“I’m not going to eviscerate black men,” she continued, repeating this line. “Did you understand that?”
Willis went on to describe the four trips they took together in considerable detail, adding that she did not know the specific locations Wade had traveled to on business. She used her travel agency to arrange cruises and gave her $2,500 in cash back for each expedition, she claimed.
Additionally, Sadow at one point questioned her about the “horde of cash” she was carrying around with her to various locations.
“As a woman, you should always have at least six months’ worth of cash at home,” she warned. “If you’re a woman and you’re going on a date with a man, it’s a good idea to have $200 on hand just in case,” she further advised.
Willis claimed he had $500 in cash on his “worst day.” “At the best of times, I think she had about $15,000 in cash at home,” she said.
She later claimed to have $9,000 stashed in her home.
The information came to light during a heated hearing before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee over whether Willis’ office should be removed from the case.
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