Trump co-defendant intensifies scrutiny over timeline of Fani Willis, prosecutor relationship

One of former President Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election destruction case filed a new complaint Friday, alleging that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) had an affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade before the case began. I repeated the idea that I was starting.

Mr. Roman’s lawyer filed the application. movement The team claimed it had a witness to refute Willis’ timeline, Terrence Bradley, a former business associate of Wade’s.

If true, this allegation would be a challenge to the pair’s court filing, which acknowledged they had a “personal relationship” but stressed that it began after Wade joined the lawsuit against Trump. This would contradict the content of the submission.

Roman’s team said Bradley had “unprivileged personal knowledge” that the relationship began before Willis was appointed as district attorney, and that the relationship would not begin in 2022. He said he could refute the claim in Wade’s affidavit that he started the crime.

But a motion filed earlier this week by Willis’ office argued that any relevant information Bradley might have is protected by attorney-client privilege and cannot be discovered in Washington.・The Post said. report.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is under pressure to move forward with a Feb. 15 hearing to disqualify Mr. Wade and Mr. Willis from trial following Friday’s motion. The motion also includes new details centering on the time Wade and Willis spent together, accusing him of paying for at least five trips they took together.

In last week’s court filing, Wade said in an attached affidavit that the two were only friends until 2021.

“In 2022, District Attorney Willis and I developed a personal relationship in addition to our professional association and friendship,” Wade wrote.

Wade and Willis filed a motion this week to quash Roman’s subpoena.

Roman’s latest motion comes after a longtime Republican operative who worked on Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign alleged that Wade and Willis had an “inappropriate relationship” in which they helped each other financially. It is what was done.