Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis acknowledged on Friday that she had an affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was tapped by Willis to manage her sprawling racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and his allies. While admitting that the two had a relationship, Willis denies that her involvement with Wade in any way compromised the election interference investigation, noting there is no personal or financial “conflict of interest that constitutes a legal basis for disqualification.”
In January, Trump co-defendant Mike Roman accused Willis of engaging in an improper romantic relationship with Wade, who was paid over $600,000 in state funds for his work on the case. The scandal threatened Willis’ leadership of the case and undermined the years of work her office put into holding Trump and his allies accountable for their alleged meddling with Georgia’s 2020 election results. Willis said this week that she has no plans to recuse herself.
Willis had not addressed the allegations head-on until Friday, when she responded through a filing to Fulton County’s Superior Court. In the filing, Willis references a sworn affidavit given by Wade in which he acknowledges that they had begun a personal relationship in 2022, after he had been appointed to serve on the case.
Willis argued that while the claims were “salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order” her removal from...
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