Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed never to date her employees in a resurfaced 2020 interview, as she now faces a hearing for hiring her lover to work on the Trump interference interference case.
Willis, in charge of bringing the case against former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case, is accused of having a secret relationship with Nathan Wade, whom she appointed as a special prosecutor in the high-profile case.
‘I will certainly not be choosing to date people that work under me,’ Willis told the Patricia Crayton Show while campaigning for district attorney.
‘We are at a place in society where things happen in people’s relationships — husbands and wives sometimes, there are outside relationships.
I don’t think that that’s what the community is concerned about. Although there might be a moral breaking in that,’ she continued.
The judge in Donald Trump’s election fraud case in Georgia has set a hearing next month to address accusations Fani Willis (left) hired her lover Nathan Wade (right) as a top prosecutor
A lawyer representing Michael Roman made the bombshell allegations against Willis and Nathan Wade (pictured center) in a filing and asked that charges be dismissed
Adding: ‘I think that what citizens are really, really concerned about is if you chose to have inappropriate contact with employees,’ she continued.
‘There’s nothing I can say on it other than that it is distracting, it is certainly inappropriate for the No. 1 law officer in this state, and it really really saddens me,’ she said.
Willis added it would be ‘very unfortunate if the taxpayers of this community have to pay for any of those lawsuits.’
The Fulton County District attorney will appear before Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on February 15 over allegations that she had an improper relationship with attorney Nathan Wade.
Atlanta attorney Wade was paid $654,000 to help in the sprawling probe into the former president’s efforts to overturn the election, according to bombshell court filings.
Willis hired Atlanta attorney Nathan Wade as an ‘anti-corruption special prosecutor’ to investigate Trump’s alleged election interference.
In a stunning court filing, Michael Roman, one of the former president’s co-defendants in the ‘fake electors scheme,’ alleges Willis was in a personal relationship with Wade.
Among the documents reviewed by DailyMail.com, were Wade’s invoices to the DA. Shockingly, they including one bill for an ‘interview with DC /White House’ for eight hours on November 18 2022 and another for eight hours including ‘conference with White House Counsel’ on May 23 2022.
Roman’s legal papers also claim that Willis was having an ‘an ongoing, personal relationship’ with Wade – citing ‘sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney’ but doesn’t provide documentary proof.
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade leaves the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at the Fulton County Government building on August 23, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is accused by a Trump co-defendant of having a personal relationship with Willis
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appeared to defend accusations of having an alleged secret lover co-prosecutor as they oversee the Georgia case against former President Donald Trump
Roman claims the pair were in a relationship before Willis hired Wade, and that they traveled together to Napa Valley, Florida, and even on a Caribbean cruise.
The bombshell relationship claim caused a storm of reporting on Monday. But Wade’s White House meetings detailed in the 127-page document filed by Roman have so far been overlooked in the media.
Willis’ spokesman has previously said the district attorney’s office would respond to the accusations through court filings.
The filing makes reference to a sealed divorce filing for the married special prosecutor, but then goes on to make the claim based on other information.
It states that ‘information obtained outside of court filings indicates that the district attorney and special prosecutor have traveled personally together to such places as Napa Valley, Florida and the Caribbean and the special prosecutor has purchased tickets for both of them to travel on both the Norwegian and Royal Carbibean cruise lines.
‘Traveling together to such places as Washington, D.C. or New York City might make sense for work purposes in light of other pending litigation, but what work purpose could only be served by travel to this traditional vacation destinations?’
‘Sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed Willis and Wade had an ongoing, personal and romantic relationship during the pendency of Wade’s divorce proceedings,’ the filing said, without naming the sources or offering any other details.
Earlier this week, Willis appeared to defend the accusations, and suggested criticism of her was racist and sexist.
Former President Donald Trump said following arguments at a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis was ‘totally compromised,’ following allegations she had a ‘romantic’ affair with a private lawyer acting as a paid special prosecutor
In a stunning court filing, Michael Roman, one of the former president’s co-defendants in the ‘fake electors scheme,’ alleges Willis was in a personal relationship with Wade
‘You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. We need to be allowed to stumble,’ she said.
Without naming Wade, she clearly appeared to be referring to him in her speech, adding that this ‘someone’ had ‘impeccable credentials’ and years of expertise.
‘They are going to be mad when I call them out on this nonsense,’ Willis told the congregation. ‘First thing they say, ‘Oh, she’s going to play the race card.’ But … isn’t it them playing the race card when they think I need someone in some other jurisdiction in some other state to tell me how to do a job I’ve been doing almost 30 years?’
Willis thanked leaders of the historically black church in Atlanta who ‘didn´t care what they said about me’ and told her ‘the invite was still good’ to speak.
‘I hope for y’all this week I don´t look like what I’ve been through,’ she said.
She repeatedly referred to herself as ‘imperfect’ and ‘flawed,’ noting that the only perfect person was Jesus.
‘Today, what he has brought you is his very flawed, hardheaded and imperfect servant,’ she said.
Willis said her father, who she said met and spent time with Dr. Martin Luther King, told her that he saw the civil rights leader at low moments, saddened because people were cruel and unsupportive. Her father told her that King ‘was not a perfect man, but he was a great man, willing to answer God’s call.’