Special prosecutor Nathan Wade and a witness took the stand on February 15, during an evidentiary hearing on Wade and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis whether she is guilty of misconduct and racketeering involving her indictment against former President Donald Trump.
Trump’s former aide Michael Roman’s defense attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, leads the questioning while lawyers representing Willis and Wade continue to disrupt the session with objections and motions to quash testimonies.
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee has denied all their objections.
One of the witnesses was Robin Yeartie, a former friend and employee of Willis, who affirmed that Willis and Wade began being romantically involved in late 2019.
Yeartie said in court, “No doubt.”
According to her testimony, she and Willis have been friends since college. Eventually, she transferred her condo lease to Willis.
Contrary to DA Willis and Wade’s statement, Yeartie attested that the two met at a conference in 2019 and began dating.
For Wade, he claims that when they met in November 2019, it was only for a “three-minute” introduction. During the conference, they exchanged contact and talked on the phone twice or thrice the same year.
By 2020, Wade testified that “2020 was more frequent” but maintained it “professional.”
Once again, the special prosecutor insisted that their relationship began in early 2022. Willis hired him as a special prosecutor in March 2022.
Mr. Wade’s testimony, however, presented several gaps in the timeline, to which defense attorney Merchant took her chance. She asked about the lavish trips in 2022 and 2023, but Wade said he couldn’t “recall” trips in 2021, but did not deny that indeed they had vacations before 2022.
When asked about his divorce, Wade seems to deflect it to his former wife saying that their marriage was “irretrievably broken” by 2015, when his wife had an “affair.”
Wade again highlighted that the finances were split evenly, without realizing the irony of the fact that his finances, as well as Willis’, are taxpayers’ money which they’ve spent traveling and on luxury accommodations.”
Further corroborating Wade’s testimony, Willis echoed her lover’s statement and even went on an unhinged rant against Ms. Merchant.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump once again called on Fulton County to drop the case. He said “It is so badly tainted. There is no case here.”
“By going after Trump, she’s able to get her boyfriend more money than they ever dreamed possible,” the former president said.
On Monday, Judge McAfee said that DA Willis’s attorney could be disqualified from the case if there is enough evidence to show “an actual conflict or the appearance of one.”
