Fani Willis, Prosecutor in Trump 2020 Georgia Case, Confirms Relationship with Nathan Wade

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis has admitted to having a “personal relationship” with special prosecutor hired to work on Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.

This admission comes nearly a month after lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, filed a motion seeking to dismiss the indictment and to remove Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade from the case.

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Although, Fani Willis admitted to having the relationship with her colleague but maintained that it was not a reason to disqualify her or her office from the Trump case.

Merchant accused Willis and Wade of “profiting significantly from the prosecution at the expense of taxpayers,” alleging that Fani Willis paid attorney Wade large sums and benefited personally when he, in turn, used his earnings to take her to Napa Valley, Florida and the Caribbean.

According to the records Merchant cited in the motion, Wade has been paid more than $650,000 at a rate of $250 an hour since his hiring.

After an order by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, Fani Willis on Friday released a 176-page response to the motion in which Willis and the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office called the attempt by Merchant to disqualify her and Wade a “salacious” effort that did not prove anything that would lead to their removal from the case.

“While the allegations raised in the various motions are salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order the relief they seek,” Fani Willis’s filing said, adding that her relationship with the prosecutor, Nathan J Wade, “has never involved direct or indirect financial benefit” to Willis.

As part of the motion, Wade confirmed in an affidavit that he developed a “personal relationship” with Willis in 2022 but said that there was no relationship between the two other than as “professional associates and friends” before he was hired to work on the case in 2021.

Wade also claimed he and Willis never cohabitated, never shared household expenses, and never shared a joint financial account.

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