Defense attorneys in the sprawling Georgia election subversion and racketeering case against Donald Trump and allies are asking a judge to allow additional evidence in their efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from prosecuting the case.
Judge Scott McAfee said he expects to rule on whether to remove Willis’ office from the case within two weeks after hearing from a range of witnesses over three days of testimony in the past month.
But now, defense attorneys say the judge should consider hearing from two more potential witnesses who claim they could testify to what Terrence Bradley told them about when his former law partner and client, Nathan Wade, started a romantic relationship with Willis. The timeline of the Willis-Wade relationship has been a sticking point in the disqualification hearings.
Bradley, who represented Wade in his divorce, was billed as a “star witness” in the effort to derail Willis and her case but did not provide clear details under oath about the start of the relationship, saying he did not recall at several key moments.
After his testimony, Cindi Lee Yeager, a deputy district attorney from a neighboring county in Georgia, reached out to defense attorneys representing one of Trump’s co-defendants to say she had watched Bradley on the stand and that he had previously told her a different story in person, according to a court filing from the defense attorneys.
According to the filing, Yeager said Bradley told her that Wade and Willis met at a legal conference in 2019 and their romantic relationship began around that time. Both Willis and Wade have testified their personal relationship didn’t begin until 2022 – after Willis hired him to lead the Trump case.
Yeager declined to comment to CNN…
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