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On 20 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_lundquist@ggmail.com> posted some news:sutnmv$mpu$2@dont-email.me:

Who was Nathan Wade fucking at the Whitehouse? Was he fucking Kamala
too?

(Bloomberg) -- Fani Willis admitted she’s had a “personal relationship”
with the lead prosecutor in the Georgia election-conspiracy case against
Donald Trump and others, but denied he was a romantic partner when she
hired him or that they engaged in any misconduct.

Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, used a court filing Friday
to address a Jan. 8 motion by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman that
seeks dismissal of the indictment or removal of Willis, lead prosecutor
Nathan Wade and the DA’s office from the sprawling case. Wade filed an affidavit saying he had no personal relationship with Willis before she
hired him in 2021.

“In 2022, District Attorney Willis and I developed a personal
relationship in addition to our professional association and
friendship,” Wade said in the affidavit. “No funds paid to me in
compensation for my role as special prosecutor have been shared with or provided to District Attorney Willis.”

Roman accused Willis and Wade of having a secret romance and taking
vacations together while Wade has earned more than $650,000 in taxpayer
money from the case since 2021. Roman asked a judge to dismiss
racketeering charges against Trump and others accused of illegally
trying to reverse President Joe Biden’s election victory. Trump’s
lawyers have also said Willis violated state bar rules, claiming she’s “inappropriately injected race” into the case.

Speculation about Willis’s relationship with Wade and whether she
financially benefited from it have fueled a scandal that’s grown even as
she refused to comment beyond a Jan. 14 church speech when she said she
was “flawed” and her critics were “playing the race card.” Willis, an
elected Democrat, brought one of four criminal cases against Trump, the Republican frontrunner for the nomination to face Biden in a rematch for
the White House.

Willis blasted the defendants for attempting to garner “breathless media coverage” and intruding into her and Wade’s personal lives, calling it
an effort to “embarrass and harass” them.

‘Ticket to the Circus’

“This is not an example of zealous advocacy, nor is it a good faith
effort to develop a record on a disputed legal issue — it is a ticket to
the circus,” Willis’s office said in the filing.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had ordered Willis to
respond by Friday to the Roman motion, and he’s scheduled a Feb. 15
hearing on the matter. Roman attorney Ashleigh Merchant has subpoenaed
Willis and Wade to testify at that hearing.

Trump alleged in a social media post that the admission means the case
against him was part of a “scam.” “By going after the most high level
person, and the Republican Nominee, she was able to get her ‘lover’ much
more money, almost a Million Dollars, than she would be able to get for
the prosecution of any other person or individual,” he wrote. “THAT
MEANS THAT THIS SCAM IS TOTALLY DISCREDITED & OVER!”

In the state’s response, prosecutors wrote in a footnote that Wade “has
agreed to work with the District Attorney’s Office at a steeply reduced
hourly rate compared to the metro Atlanta area legal market.”

The state says Willis has neither a financial nor personal conflict of
interest in the case, and that evidence will show the “attacks” on
Wade’s qualifications “are factually inaccurate, unsupported, and
malicious.”

Willis’s filing said Trump and the other defendants are basing their allegations about a conflict of interest on “fantastical theories and
rank speculation.”

“Defendants have done nothing to establish an actual conflict of
interest, nor have they shown that, in the handling of the case,
District Attorney Willis or Special Prosecutor Wade have acted out of
any personal or financial motivation,” according to the filing. “The
record before the court falls far short of requiring disqualification or dismissal of the indictment.”

Divorce Filing

Wade, a private attorney, filed for divorce from his wife on the day
after Willis appointed him in November 2021. His wife, Joycelyn,
complained in a recent court filing that he’d left her “without any
means of financial support” and stonewalled her lawyers as they
repeatedly tried to gather financial information that could lead to a settlement.

Her lawyers filed records in the divorce case showing Wade bought Willis
plane tickets to travel together to Miami and San Francisco. The couple
reached an agreement this week to cancel a hearing in divorce court that
was expected to focus in part on Wade’s relationship with Willis.

Willis faces other political headaches. Georgia’s Republican-controlled
state Senate last week approved a special committee to examine if she inappropriately spent state funds to prosecute Trump. The committee,
which makes recommendations on state spending, does not have the ability
to sanction the district attorney. She was also subpoenaed Friday by the
House Judiciary Committee for documents relating to allegations that her
office misused a $488,000 federal grant.

Last week, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump ally,
also filed a complaint against Willis with the Georgia ethics commission
over potential violations of state law relating to Wade, her “secret boyfriend.”

(Updates with details from filing, Trump post.)

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-georgia-prosecutors-admit-affair-185927174.h
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