Interview from 2020 comes back to haunt Fulton County DA, who is currently mired in a scandal involving an affair with a married prosecutor in her Trump case.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is accused of sleeping with the married prosecutor she hired for her case against Trump, promised in 2020 she wouldn’t sleep with her staffers.
Back in April 2020, Willis appeared on The Patricia Crayton Show while she was a candidate for office to pledge she would never be involved in an inappropriate relationship with someone who worked for her.
“I certainly will not be choosing people to date that work under me. Let me just say that,” Willis said.
NEW: Fani Willis, accused of sleeping with the married man she hired at an exorbitant rate to prosecute Trump, promised in 2020 she wouldn’t sleep with her staffers.
She also said it would be “unfortunate” if taxpayers had to pay for an elected official’s sexual misconduct. pic.twitter.com/sJs0g97yhP
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“I think what citizens are really, really concerned about is if you chose to have inappropriate contact with employees. There’s nothing I can say on it other than it is distracting and is certainly inappropriate for the number one law enforcement officer in the state,” she added.
Willis is accused of engaging in a romantic affair with married prosecutor Nathan Wade, who she hired to prosecute her case against former President Donald Trump, prompting calls for both lawyers to be removed from the case.
Wade’s wife dropped a filing on Friday that included records of trips that her husband had allegedly paid for himself and Willis to take.
The filing claims Wade filed for divorce the day after Willis appointed him as special prosecutor against Trump, and Willis took actions to cover up Wade’s divorce filing.
“Plaintiff [Nathan Wade] was appointed as a special prosecutor by Ms. Willis on November 1, 2021. Plaintiff filed for divorce on November 2, 2021. Defendant [Joycelyn Wade] was served by process server on November 3, 2021,” the document submitted by attorney Andrea Dyer Hastings states.
“Before Defendant even filed her Answer and Counterclaim, Plaintiff filed a motion asking the court to seal the record in this divorce action,” the filing continues.
Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis said the county must find out whether payments to Nathan Wade were not “converted to [her] personal gain in the form of subsidized travel or other gifts.”
Fulton County Judge Henry Thompson on Monday granted the motion to unseal Wade’s divorce file.
