OAN’s Brooke Mallory
5:56 PM – Thursday, February 15, 2024
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis provided a nuanced response about 90 minutes into her dramatic testimony in a Georgia courtroom, saying that her “physical” affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade ended prior to Donald Trump and eighteen associates being charged with a racketeering conspiracy.
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It was unclear, however, if the connection had ended altogether prior to the shocking indictment.
Wills was questioned regarding when the pair had allegedly broken up, deep into her testimony on the “romantic” relationship that she kept secret from coworkers.
“The romantic relationship ended before the indictment was returned—yes or no?” asked Trump lawyer Steven Sadow inside the Fulton County courthouse on Friday.
“To a man, yes,” she responded, claiming that the relationship with Special Prosecutor Wade had ended by then.
“To a man yes, to you no?” Sadow asked in a follow-up question.
“Did the forthcoming indictment have anything to do with that?” he continued.
Willis’s opinions on the distinctions between men and women were important to her response.
Throughout the sensational hearing, the DA frequently provided eye-catching and occasionally superfluous details. Some examples included her love for Grey Goose vodka, the fact that she kept up to $15,000 in cash in her house, and how she refused to say what continent Belize is located on after visiting it with Wade.
“Mr. Wade is used to women, as he told me one time, the only thing a woman can do for him is make him a sandwich. … I don’t need anything from a man. A man is not a plan. A man is a companion,” Willis said.
“I don’t need anybody to foot my bills. The only man who’s ever foot my bills completely is my daddy,” she continued.
“So it’s clear, the physical relationship ended pre-indictment,” Sadow asked Willis.
“I’m not sure that the tough conversation didn’t happen until after, but the physical relationship—I’m sure if you asked Mr. Wade, because he’s a male, he would say we ended June or July, because physical contact ended then,” she explained.
“In my mind, being a woman, it’s over when you have that like hard conversation. I just think women and men think differently.”
In both cases, the DA and prosecutor, who agreed to help her lead her team, “shared a commitment to the mission” despite their romantic relationship. In their testimonies, Wade and Willis stated that the romantic connection started in 2022, after she had seduced him. However, an ex-friend of Willis’, Robin Yeartie, claimed otherwise and said that their romance began back in 2019.
Nevertheless, the two did both admit to meeting in 2019 at a judicial conference, even though Willis vehemently refuted having any sort of relationship with Wade at the time.
“I’m not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial,” Willis told Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer representing Michael Roman the former campaign official of President Trump.
In addition, Sadow asked Wade if he was in “any personal relationship at all” when the connection ended.
“Are you asking me, have I had intercourse with the district attorney?” Wade hit back.
“The answer would be no.”
“You say personal. We’re very good friends,” Wade said to Sadow. “Probably closer than ever because of these attacks. But if you’re asking me about specific intercourse, the answer is no.”
While offering lengthy, tidbit-filled responses on the stand, Willis displayed evident rage towards several of the lawyers questioning her, despite the fact that lawyers usually advise witnesses to provide succinct replies.
She mentioned that Wade enjoys wine while talking about their travels, dinners, and beverages.
“I don’t really like wine, to be honest with you. I like Grey Goose,” she continued.
After Merchant and other attorneys attempted to prove that the couple was dating earlier than their claims and before Wade was hired, Sadow questioned her about when their relationship first began.
“Did you have contact with Mr. Wade in 2020?” Sadow asked Willis.
She responded, saying they had “very limited contact” because of “a form of cancer that makes your allegation somewhat ridiculous.’”
“I’m not going to emasculate a black man,” she continued, repeating the line. “Did you understand that?”
Willis went on to describe in considerable detail the four excursions she said they traveled together, adding that she was unaware of the specific locations of Wade’s work visits. She claimed to have used a travel agency to arrange her cruises and that she had given him $2,500 in cash back for one expedition.
Additionally, Sadow questioned her at one point on the “cash horde” she was bringing around to various locations.
“As a woman, you should have at least six months in cash in your house at all times,” she cautioned. “If you’re a woman and you go on a date with a man, you better have $200 in case,’ she advised further.
Willis claimed to have $500 in cash on her “worst days.” “I think I had about $15,000 in cash in my house at my best days,” she remarked.
She later claimed to have $9,000 stashed at home.
The information was revealed during a heated hearing over whether Willis’ office ought to be removed from the case before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
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