Fani Willis is admitting to a personal relationship with the man she hired to be the special prosecutor in the case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
The admission was part of a 176-page document released on Friday. Trump’s attorneys are asking a judge to remove Willis from the case and drop the charges.
In a sworn affidavit that is part of the 176-page filing, Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade acknowledges a personal relationship with Willis, but the filing claims that the relationship is not financial and did not start until after he was hired.
“In 2022, District Attorney Willis and I developed a personal relationship in addition to our professional association and friendship,” the document said.
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But in the 176-page court filing, Willis’s office clarifies the timing, writing that there was no personal relationship in November 2021 at the time of Wade’s appointment.
“I tell you, I think there’s a lot for the defendants to work with here. So of course, the affidavit is vague, I would say even evasive,” Clark Cunningham, who teaches law at Georgia State University, told Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray.