Newly emerged cell phone data has revealed that the improper relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade started long before they claimed during recent testimonies in court.
A Friday filing from President Donald Trump’s attorney includes evidence showing that Wade made at least 35 visits to Willis’s Hapeville neighborhood before he was hired.
The visits were discovered in cell phone location tracking data obtained by the Trump legal team’s private investigator.
The same cell phone data also reveals that Willis and Wade exchanged thousands of calls and texts long before they claimed to have started their relationship.
The new evidence appears to confirm the testimony of Terrance Bradley, a friend and former law partner of Wade.
Bradley claims he “has non-privileged, personal knowledge that the romantic relationship between Wade and Willis began prior to Willis being sworn as the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia in January 2021.”
“Thus, Bradley can confirm that Willis contracted with Wade after Wade and Willis began a romantic relationship, thus rebutting Wade’s claim in his affidavit that they did not start dating until 2022,” a court brief stated.
Wade testified last week that he did not visit Willis’s condo more than 10 times before being hired in November 2021.
Willis and Wade insist that their relationship began in early 2022.
In 2021, Willis hired Wade to help prosecute her politically motivated racketeering case against Trump.
Their relationship was exposed when Trump’s co-defendant Michael Roman alleged in court filings last month that Willis should be disqualified from the case.
Roman claimed Willis financially benefited from hiring Wade because of their personal relationship.
The date when the two lawyers’ relationship began is key to the ongoing dispute brought by Trump’s attorneys.
Trump’s legal team argues that their romantic fling compromised the integrity of the case.
The defense is trying to prove the existence and extent of any financial benefit to Willis from Wade from their relationship.
The improper relationship is the crux of their argument that Willis should be disqualified.
Cellphone data also seems to show that Wade twice traveled to Willis’s apartment late at night without leaving until the next morning.
Wade and Willis have both testified that they did not sleep together at the Hapeville condo.
However, the new evidence appears to prove that both Willis and Wade committed perjury while testifying about their relationship.
“We are required to respond to the filing via the court, and we are preparing a response now,” a spokesperson for Willis said of the Friday filing, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Friday affidavit asserts that cellphone data shows Willis and Wade sharing more than 2,000 phone calls and just under 12,000 text messages in the first 11 months of 2021.
Judge Scott McAfee will now need to decide whether to admit the Friday affidavit and the cellphone data it contains into evidence.
