Nathan Wade admitted to Congress that his mistress, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, planned to prosecute Donald Trump before she accepted the job.
Republicans subpoenaed Wade to get to the bottom of his involvement in the Willis-led “politicized” prosecution of the former president.
The couple has been embroiled in scandal since their romantic and financial relationship came to light after Willis named Wade ‘special prosecutor’ in the Georgia 2020 election interference case against Trump.
According to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week reviewed first by DailyMail.com, Wade said he was on the “search committee” to find prosecutors to go after Trump.
And he also sensationally admitted that the committee was created long before Willis took over as district attorney on January 1, 2021.
He finally secured an impeachment for Trump and 18 of his Republican allies in August 2023, which the former president called a hoax and a “scam.”
Wade also said he met with several Biden-Harris White House officials on at least two occasions.
But he did not elaborate on those meetings, avoiding direct questions about the nature of the visits to official White House staff, including individuals in the White House counsel’s office.
According to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week reviewed first by DailyMail.com, Wade said he was on the “search committee” to find prosecutors to go after Trump.
Wade also confirmed that he had meetings with the Jan. 6 Congressional Committee, but did not provide details.
The House Judiciary Committee called Willis’ election interference case against Trump “politicized” after it was revealed that the two were dating last year.
The case has been on hold since June while a Georgia appeals court considers whether lead prosecutor Willis should be disqualified for alleged misconduct related to her romantic relationship with Wade, who resigned in March.
The committee said he managed to avoid answering their questions by saying he “couldn’t remember” or remember nearly 60 times during the closed-door session.
According to the transcript, he also admitted that he had no qualifications for the special prosecutor position to which Willis appointed him.
And he rejected questions about the “personal nature” of his relationship with Willis.
Lawyers on the committee asked Wade if he “was ever concerned” that if their relationship became public it would “cause a problem with the case.”
“So now I’m getting confused because I… I didn’t think I would come here to answer questions about my personal life,” he responded.
Donald Trump has claimed that Willis is trying to interfere with the 2024 vote, after she pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other charges for allegedly trying to overthrow the 2020 election in the swing state.
The case has been on hold since June while a Georgia appeals court considers whether lead prosecutor Willis should be disqualified for alleged misconduct related to her romantic relationship with Wade, who resigned in March.
Earlier this month, Republicans tried to serve a subpoena on Wade, but had no idea where it was.
He said in the transcript that he had turned off his phone to take a few days to “take care of his ankle” after a sprain and also prepare for an upcoming “meditation and refereeing.”
Willis has said her affair with Wade was a thing of the past, but police body camera footage showed them together when Willis’ daughter Kinaya was arrested on August 24, 2024.
Trump has accused Willis of a “display of racial animus” toward him, calling her case “a calculated effort” to provoke criticism against him and “alienate him from herself.”
Willis, who brought the Georgia election interference case against Trump, has said their affair was a thing of the past, but police body camera footage showed them together when Willis’ daughter, Kinaya, was arrested on September 24. August.
Trump accused Willis of engaging in a “public display of racial animus” toward him and called her case “a calculated effort” to convict him and “alienate him from herself.”
The couple looked remarkably like a couple over the summer in police body camera footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, filmed together at the scene of their pregnant daughter’s arrest for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
Footage shows them arriving in a black Ford pickup truck before approaching a group of police officers on the side of the road in Tyrone, Georgia.
The officers mistake them for Kinaya’s mom and dad, but Willis corrects them and describes Wade, 51, who resigned as his special prosecutor when their affair came under public scrutiny, as “just a friend.”
Kinaya’s older sister, Nia, 26, a passenger in her brother’s silver Nissan Altima, had called her mother after the arrest at 7:03 p.m.
When Willis and Wade arrived, their daughter was already on her way to the Fayette County Jail, 30 minutes south of Atlanta, charged with misdemeanor driving with a revoked or suspended license.
She was released that same day and Wade has not been publicly photographed since.
Barnes, who is also an attorney, represents Willis in the upcoming case, which the district attorney has called an attempt by House Republicans to “obstruct criminal proceedings in Georgia and promote outrageous misrepresentations.”
News of her relationship with Wade first emerged in January, prompting a litany of requests for documents related to her work on Trump’s ongoing prosecution.
In body camera footage, officers mistake the couple for Kinaya’s mom and dad, but Willis corrects them and describes Wade, 51, as “just a friend.”
Kinaya Willis, 25, daughter of the Fulton County district attorney, was handcuffed before being booked into the Fayette County jail for driving with a suspended license.
In a letter to the committee sent a few weeks ago, Barnes stated that Willis had objected to Wade providing the documents, calling the demands “inadequate.”
Barnes also asked the district attorney’s office to have a representative present at Wade’s interview, so that Willis could “protect sensitive and confidential information related to ongoing criminal cases.”
“Any interview of Mr. Wade could involve classified grand jury information, confidential investigative sources and protected attorney-client information, employment products and deliberative process privileges, among others,” Barnes wrote.
Meanwhile, the congressional investigation continues, as some continue to criticize it as an effort by Trump allies to undermine Willis’s prosecution of the politician.
His case took a blow earlier this month, when a Georgia judge dismissed two criminal charges in the election interference case and another charge against other co-defendants who also pleaded not guilty.
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that state prosecutors did not have the authority to bring those charges, related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court.
The ruling meant that five of the original 13 criminal charges against Trump in the indictment obtained last year have now been dismissed.
McAfee dismissed six other charges in March, including three against Trump.
Trump’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, said in a statement that the recent ruling shows that Trump and his legal team “have once again prevailed.”