2024-02-15 20:08:00
2:42 p.m. ET, February 15, 2024
Prosecutor says now-ended relationship with Fulton County district attorney is “not secret, it is private”
From CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz
Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade testifies during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case on Thursday in Atlanta.
Alyssa Pointer/Pool/AP
Donald Trump’s attorney in the Georgia election subversion case pressed the lead prosecutor Nathan Wade on why he and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis kept their sexual relationship a secret, suggesting that indicated they knew it was wrong.
“It is not secret, it is private,” Wade responded, adding, “My mother knew, obviously.”
Wade added that he and Willis did not want people approaching them in public, “interrupting” their time together.
“There’s nothing secret or salacious about having a private life,” the prosecutor said.
Willis and Wade are no longer in a relationship, Wade testified Thursday under questioning from Trump’s attorney Steve Sadow, saying it ended in the summer of 2023.
Sadow also asked whether the two had any “personal relationship at all” since that time, saying “and you know what I mean by that.”
Wade shot back, asking if Sadow meant “if I had intercourse with the district attorney?”
“We’re very good friends, probably closer than ever because of these attacks,” Wade said. “But if you’re asking me about specific intercourse, the answer is no.”
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