Nathan Wade, the Georgia prosecutor who was appointed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — his lover — to prosecute former President Donald Trump over alleged election interference, had numerous and extensive communications with the White House. And, of course, Wade billed the Fulton County officer for the hours of meetings he held with the Biden-Harris administration, the congressional Jan. 6 committee, and many other D.C. officials, records obtained by the House Judiciary Committee that were released on Monday.
A transcript of an interview with Wade was released by the committee. Wade was compelled to do the interview because of a subpoena, where he stated that Willis was preparing to prosecute Trump before she even got into office. Her lover then revealed that she placed Wade on a “search committee” in order to locate a prosecutor, but she ultimately chose him for the job.
via The Daily Wire:
On November 18, 2022, he billed eight hours for “Interview with DC/White House,” but under oath claimed he didn’t remember the meeting and couldn’t even say whether it was online or in-person. Between September 7 and September 9, 2022, Wade billed $6,000 to taxpayers for “Witness Interviews; conf call DC; team meeting,” but couldn’t remember what the D.C. meeting entailed. On April 25, 2023, he spent eight hours on “Zoom conf with investigators in other jurisdictions,” but could not remember anything about it. In the congressional interview, the evasion and bizarre answers continued. Wade acknowledged meeting with “individuals associated with the January 6th Committee” — a Democrat-run House committee digging up dirt on Trump — several times, but also claimed he did not talk to either members or staff of the committee, instead corresponding with lawyers whose names he could not remember, and that he did not know who the lawyers’ client was.
Wade billed 24 hours in April 2022 for “Team meeting; conf with Jan 6th; research legal issues to prep [interview]” and eight hours on November 16, 2022 for “Jan 6 meeting and Atty conf.”
In the proceedings that took place in Georgia, one of Trump’s co-defendants made the case that the prosecution was rotten to the core, eaten up by corruption. During that time, Wade gave written answers under oath, stating he did not have any romantic relationship with Willis while he married to another woman. Later, on the stand, he did admit he had one with her while he married. The judge presiding over the case decided that either Willis or Wade would need to be removed from the prosecution. Wade chose to remove himself.
Falling on the sword for the mistress he was seeing behind his wife’s back? I guess chivalry isn’t dead after all.
The testimony Wade provided before Congress has raised many questions about whether his forbidden lover appointed him as a prosecutor despite his lack of experience, in order to pamper him as her paramour. Wade then admitted to Congress he didn’t possess the relevant experience to be qualified for such a position, noting that as soon as he was appointed as a special prosecutor, he started to take classes about it.
“U.S. Marshalls attempting to serve Wade with a subpoena could not locate him for days. Wade claimed he had turned his phone off because he was preparing for a trial, and also because he was on pain medication from hurting his ankle playing basketball,” the report concluded.