Trump co-defendant seeks to add testimony in effort to disqualify Fani Willis
The court filing does not include a sworn affidavit from the potential witness and comes after Judge Scott McAfee held days of evidentiary hearings in February.
ATLANTA — An attorney for one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia wants the judge presiding over a misconduct motion against the Fulton County district attorney to hear testimony from a new witness about when DA Fani Willis began her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor in the election interference case.
In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Trump co-defendant David Shafer said the potential witness, a co-chief deputy district attorney with the Cobb County DA’s office, had spoken with them about conversations she’d had with Terrence Bradley, the former law partner of and divorce attorney for the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.
According to the filing, Cindi Yeager informed the attorneys that Bradley had told her the relationship between Willis and Wade began before November 2021, when Wade was hired as a special prosecutor in the Trump case.
The filing does not include a sworn affidavit from Yeager about her conversations with Bradley, and there is no indication she has any personal knowledge of Willis and Wade’s relationship.
It is not clear what impact, if any, the filing will have on efforts to disqualify Willis from prosecuting the election interference case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee held evidentiary hearings over several days last month, at which both sides called witnesses to testify. He has so far rebuffed requests from the DA’s office and the defense to reopen the evidence in the case.
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