The judge presiding over the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump has ordered a Feb. 15 court hearing into allegations of a secret romance between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
The order from Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee came the same day that Willis filed a motion accusing Wade’s estranged wife of manipulating their ongoing divorce in an attempt to muddy the prosecution against Trump.
The decree from McAfee requires Willis to submit a written response to the court by Feb. 2, according to a copy of the order that was first obtained by The Washington Post.
The scandal intensified more than a week after the allegations against Willis surfaced in a Jan. 8 motion filed by former Republican campaign aide Michael Roman, who is one of more than a dozen co-defendants facing charges in the unprecedented RICO case against Trump in Georgia.
Days after the salacious allegations came to light, the case took a major unexpected turn when Willis received a subpoena to testify in Wade’s ongoing divorce proceedings on Jan. 23, lending credibility to the claims of an extramarital affair between Willis and Wade.
Meanwhile, the motion from Willis seeks to vanquish the subpoena in Wade’s divorce case, claiming “[Joycelyn] Wade is using the legal process to harass and embarrass District Attorney Willis, and in doing so, is obstructing and interfering with an ongoing criminal prosecution,” the filing states, according to The Atlanta Journal-Consitution.
Meanwhile, Roman’s motion urges Judge McAfee to immediately dismiss the charges and disqualify Willis from continuing to pursue the case against Trump and those accused alongside him.
So far, Willis has neither confirmed nor denied the salacious claims in Roman’s court motion, which also alleged the district attorney enriched herself through the ongoing relationship with attorney Nathan Wade,…
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