Tiffany Willis’ ex-boyfriend and former special prosecutor Nathan Wade shared his take on their courtroom tryst in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Wade remarked that their workplace romance “was not ideal,” but emphasized that he doesn’t see it as harmful to the case.
He added that workplace romances are “American as apple pie.”
“It happens to everyone, but it happened to the two of us.”
In November 2021, Willis appointed Wade to take charge of Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump. However, the case was tainted with a conflict of interest and an undisclosed romance by January.
Defense lawyers motioned to disqualify both Willis and Wade from the case.
In March, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee handed his ruling to Willis and gave her two options: either Wade submit his resignation or Willis back out of the case altogether.
Despite finding “insufficient evidence” to prove that there was a conflict of interest, Judge McAfee noted that “an odor of mendacity remains” and hit Willis for her “tremendous lapse in judgment.”
Additionally, the judge failed to consider the testimony and evidence presented, showing that Wade and Willis’ relationship dates way back to 2019, before Willis started working on her election case against Trump.
Wade lamented in the interview, “[Willis is] an intelligent woman. I like to think that I’m above average intelligence as well.”
“It wasn’t lost upon the two of us that things could bleed over into the case and start to affect it. And so, we made the adult-like decision to do what we did.”
He also stressed that their relationship did not cause “any damage” to the case.
“I regret that that private matter became the focal point of this very important prosecution. This is a very important case. I hate that my personal life has begun to overshadow the true issues in the case.”
“My private life has nothing to do with the merits of that prosecution,” Wade added.
Pondering the possibility of holding off their feelings until after the case, Wade justified that romance does not always follow logic.
“Absolutely, absolutely,” Wade said. “I’ll concede that that could have been an approach. But there again, when you are in the middle of it, these feelings are developing, and you get to a point where the feelings are so strong that, you know, you start to want to do things that really are none of the public’s concern.”
Since bowing out of the case, Wade has returned to private practice. Meanwhile, President Trump and his co-defendants maintained their innocence and awaited the scheduled trial date.
Here was the issue. He was a small time attorney working on traffic tickets and mustimeters’. His income couldn’t afford to take her out because of her lavish lifestyle so she hired him at $400 per hour in which he wasn’t really qualified. It had to be a high profile case so Trump fit the bill.