Text messages between a key witness and a lawyer for one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants clarify the timeline of the romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
In court on Tuesday, Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Trump’s co-defendant, showed messages Terrence Bradley sent her, saying the relationship started before Wade joined Willis’s team in November 2021.
While Trump’s team expected Bradley, a former divorce lawyer and law partner of Wade, to testify that Wade and Willis had become involved romantically before she hired him as a special prosecutor, he said he could not recall when he first heard about the relationship, telling the court he speculated in his text exchange with Merchant.
When shown the text messages by Merchant on Tuesday, Bradley said, “Oh, dang.”
The text messages
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