It was the power of love that halted Georgia’s election subversion case against Donald Trump, saving the former president for now from another possible conviction. Now, the emergence of juicy details of the romance — what Cockburn really wants to learn from the case — are being stymied. Nathan Wade, the former lover of Georgia attorney general Fani Willis and a former prosecutor in the racketeering case, sat down with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday. Collins did her best to draw out the timeline of the affair when the interview was unfortunately interrupted.
What Wade did reveal is that he is still close with his former fling. “We are great friends. We speak regularly. The conversation has changed though,” Wade said. “Our conversations have shifted to ‘how are you, how are you handling the threats that are coming your way, are you being safe?’”
After Collins asked when the romance began, the interview quickly derailed. Wade at first protested that the exact dates should not be an issue when his media team suddenly stepped in. “Do you want to go off mic for a second,” asked an unnamed media consultant. The two proceeded to huddle in the corner by a sparsely populated book shelf to discuss the simple question.
Upon returning to his seat with an awkward smile and short stare-down with Collins, Wade was forced to respond after the questions was repeated. “The public has a clear snapshot that this is clearly just a distraction,” Wade said, attempting to distract from the distraction with his own distraction. “It is not a relevant issue in this case and I think that we should be focusing on more of the facts and the indictment in the case.” He also added that since the relationship is a pending issue before the circuit court of appeals he would not want to say anything that would “jeopardize the case.”
Wade and Willis can’t seem to get the story straight between each other either. The former prosecutor said they broke up in June or July of 2023 while the Fulton County attorney general says the fling ended in August, the same month Trump was indicted. Willis also insists she only became intimate with Wade after hiring him — but sources close to both, including Wade’s divorce lawyer, say they began dating before 2021.
Still, Wade somehow believes he isn’t responsible for the case’s delay until after the 2024 presidential election. “I don’t believe my actions played a role in it at all,” he said. Wade resigned from the case in March after Fulton County Superior Court judge Scott McAfee ordered that either he or Willis be removed from the prosecution team. His fling with Willis is what then gave Trump grounds to file an appeal to have Willis disqualified from the counsel. Anyone hoping for another Trump conviction better look elsewhere then Georgia’s romance-riddled courtroom. Perhaps to other states filing similar cases in which Trump is currently an unindicted co-conspirator…
