A Georgia prosecutor has offered to testify that another witnesses' testimony was wrong about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Willis is leading the case against former President Donald Trump, who has been charged with 2020 election interference in Georgia.
In a Monday court filing, Cindi Lee Yeager, a co-chief deputy district attorney for Cobb County, Georgia, said Terrence Bradley, Wade's former divorce lawyer, told her Willis and Wade's relationship began earlier than they stated, Newsweek reported.
Bradley last month said under oath he did not know or could not remember when Willis and Wade's relationship began.
The filing said Yeager claimed on Friday that Bradley had told her that Wade and Willis met and started their romantic relationship in 2019, and Willis had told Bradley to keep it quiet.
"In or around September of 2023, Mr. Bradley was visiting Ms. Yeager in her office when Mr. Bradly received a telephone call," according to the filing by David Shafer, a Trump co-defendant. "Ms. Yeager could hear that the caller was District Attorney Willis. District Attorney Willis was calling Mr. Bradley in response to an article that was published about how much money Mr. Wade and his law partners had been paid in this case.
"Ms. Yeager heard District Attorney Willis tell Mr. Bradley: 'They are coming after us. You don't need to talk to them about anything about us.'"
The filing added that Yeager "watched Mr. Bradley's testimony before the Court and became concerned as a result of the fact that what Mr. Bradley testified to on the witness stand was directly contrary to what Mr. Bradley had told Ms. Yeager in person," Newsweek reported.
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee indicated Friday that he would rule within the next two weeks on whether to remove Willis from the Trump case over a romantic relationship with a top prosecutor, Wade.
McAfee heard arguments over whether Willis' relationship with Wade amounts to a conflict of interest that should force them off one of four criminal cases against the former president.
A two-day hearing last month followed accusations by former Trump staffer and co-defendant Michael Roman that Willis was having an affair with Wade, whom the DA hired in the high-profile case. It also was alleged the two had benefited financially from taxpayers' money.
Attorneys for Trump and his co-defendants accused Willis and Wade of lying on the witness stand about when their relationship began, and told McAfee that keeping the district attorney on the case threatens to undermine the public's confidence in the hugely consequential prosecution.
Willis and Wade have admitted they had a relationship but denied a conflict of interest.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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