BREAKING🔥 Fani Willis DISQUALIFICATION Saga - FANI'S Last minute change after Attorney Testimony🚨

in the last 3 hours fton County district

attorney fonnie Willis admitted to a

personal relationship with an outside

prosecutor she appointed to manage the

election interference case against

former president Donald Trump

relationship between her and Wade had

prejudiced the case this is a last

minute change the attorney representing

special prosecutor Nathan Wade's EST

strange wife is speaking with

investigator Zack Merchant and a 176

page Court filing Willis said she and

Nathan Wade developed a relationship in

202 to but that there was no

relationship prior to his appointment as

special prosecutor we'll have more on

this story including one legal expert's

take on the impact on the election

interference case there's another case

that's a big mess and that's fonnie

Willis the RICO case uh for the election

fraud issue down in in Georgia uh she's

going through yet another set of

circumstances right the judge wants to

gag her the judge do well the defense

teams are going to file a motion to to

gag her she continues to make public

statements now if you'll remember in the

judge's decision on the disqualification

issue in which she was kept on the case

but her but Nathan Wade was kicked off

the case the judge made a comment about

gagging her that that motion wasn't

before the court but the judge was very

critical of the public statements she

made the ones in church where she blamed

her race on on the problems that she's

had and and he called them inappropriate

so he's ready I think to uh issue a gag

order he just needs a motion before the

court to do so so today the Fulton

County District Attorney office is

asking the Georgia court of appeals to

let a judge's disqualification ruling

stand what specific remedies are former

president Trump and his codefendant

looking for right now they want to see

judge McAfee's ruling overturn now what

that could include is Da Willis and her

team off the case or the indictment

dismissed altogether the attorney

representing special prosecutor Nathan

Wade's EST stranged wife is speaking

with investigator Zack Merchant it is

her first sitdown interview since their

divorce catapulted into the national

Spotlight it's good to go through a

little bit of background here because it

has been a complex past few weeks the

attorney Andrea Hastings subpoena Fulton

County district attorney fonny Willis

earlier this month seeking to depose her

in Wade's ongoing divorce proceedings

alleging Willis had a romantic

relationship with Nathan Wade whom she

appointed as special prosecutor in the

ongoing criminal case in Fulton County

against former president Donald Trump

and others in the interview we asked

Hastings the question many of you are

asking what proof do you have to support

the allegation that da Fon Willis and

Nathan Wade had a romantic relationship

where does the divorce case between

Joyce and Wade and Nathan Wade stand as

of today as of today we have a

settlement a consent order incorporating

a settlement as to Temporary alimony and

temporary attorney St to somebody who's

not an attorney what what does that mean

so it's in any case it's It's Not

Unusual for us to set up temporary

Financial Arrangements in a case what's

unusual about this situation is that

it's been over 2 years and we're just

now establishing a temporary Financial

Arrangement temporary support for my

client who is not the earning spouse so

and that's because of how this case is

gone um but it's it's a normal part of

the process what's unusual is that it's

taking this long you're a divorce

attorney how long have you worked in in

family law in divorce law I've been in

family law since

2003 have you ever handled a case quite

like this

one

no no I well as far as the the facts go

of the case it's there's not a lot

unusual about it the circumstances

surrounding the case that's what makes

it unusual elaborate on that a little

bit for

me well um you know when we started this

case when Joyce Wade hired me we had no

idea about any of the circumstances

surrounding the case we certainly had no

idea that Nathan Wade had accepted a

position as a special prosecutor so from

my perspective I was approaching it like

any other divorce case I had a a wife

who'd been married for almost 25 years

to a husband a apparently successful

attorney so we were going to undergo

Discovery and all the things we normally

do um and then as we started to peel

back the onion and and questions weren't

answered and things didn't make sense

that's when it turned into something

else you mentioned that when you came on

to the case it was your understanding

that uh you didn't know that Mr Wade was

working as a special prosecutor correct

there have been people who've who've

caught that you mentioned it in some

filing seeking additional Discovery

materials over the more than two years

now that this case has been proceeding

and there have been folks who've

wondered how that could be um so I just

want to put it to you why didn't you

know that Mr Wade was a special

prosecutor until at least somewhat

fairly far along in the process well I

can tell you

that to the extent that it was public

knowledge it wasn't in any public Circle

that I was a part of or that Joyce was a

part of and we did not actually learn

that he was the special prosecutor until

around the time that the indictments

came out and in Discovery we ask about

sources of income with specificity and

the answer that we received repeatedly

was Nathan J Wade PC so we didn't have

any

information objective information that

would tell us anything about that until

it became a source of public information

and that's when we started down the hole

of trying to get information with regard

to his income those were the things that

weren't making sense he didn't seem to

have very much in the way of income but

he seemed to have a lot of money at his

disposal and when we learned this that's

when we started doing subpoenas to fton

County um and open records requests to

figure out what on Earth is going on you

mentioned something that I want to kind

of circle back on the open records

requests and The subpoena I think the

divorce case really got dragged into the

national Spotlight when you subpoena

bton County district attorney fonny

Willis to sit for a deposition in this

case and I want to spend a little bit of

time talking about that and let's start

here da Willis tried to quash that

subpoena um there was a hearing the

judge stayed The subpoena uh at the

time before that hearing da Willis filed

a motion in response trying to quash The

subpoena and she wrote that your client

was using the legal process to harass

ass and embarrass the district attorney

and I'm quoting here she said in her

filing that doing so was obstructing and

interfering with an ongoing criminal

prosecution what did you make of that

when you read it in her

filing I was

astounded

that she would make that type of

assertion against an individual another

member of the bar um I understand

intellectually what she was trying to do

but I don't take too kindly to people

threatening my clients or myself and

that's what it felt like to me it went

too

far you took it as a threat of criminal

prosecution correct that if we proceeded

with this

deposition that we would be prosecuted

criminally for it that's how I took it

did you you raised that concern in a

response filing of your own um did you

ever hear a response from da Willis

about

that let's talk about the subpoena

specifically you wrote in a motion and

this is where uh we have to peel back a

little bit from the legal le as best we

can although you know we'll hash it all

out but we we want to be sort of as as

clear about all this as we can because

there's a lot of motions and counter

motions and oh yes um and that's that's

the nature of these things but you wrote

in one of your motions in support of the

subpoena to get da Willis to sit for

that deposition you wrote that you

wanted to depose her to gather

information about the nature of the

relationship between da Fon Willis and

Nathan Wade and in that filing you wrote

that it was your belief that the two of

them were engaged in a romantic

relationship correct what kind of proof

do you have to support the notion that

Mr Wade and da Willis were engaged in a

romantic

relationship so let me say one thing

about the subpoena when we first issued

the subpoena we didn't list the reason

for the deposition and we did that on

purpose um it was only after her filing

that when she demanded to know why we

were going to ask her questions that we

reissued The subpoena with that

information on it I just think that I

just want that out there um but we

received documents like I said I did the

um sorry I'm jumping around I did the

open records request this was late fall

and once I received those documents I

issued a formal subpoena for evidentiary

reasons and I received those in November

it was shortly as soon as I received

those we filed a motion for a temporary

hearing because I had information about

money I did not have information about a

Rel relationship at that point and it

wasn't until we received a handful of

documents from Nathan Wade on the Friday

before Christmas December 22nd that I

had information that

indicated with a reasonable degree of

certainty that there was definitely more

than a boss employee relationship

between the two of them when you say

information help me understand what that

is is the natural question of anybody

who watches this is going to be be okay

what was it so you say you obtained

information what information did you

obtain what proof did that show to you

that there was a relationship between da

Willis and Mr wne I received documents

that indicated as you've seen um that

they have traveled together ostensibly

not for business purposes I'm I can't

think of a business reason for them to

have gone to Aruba or to Napa Valley and

we've issued subpoenas as a result of

those documents that we received from Mr

Wade that have gone

further when you say gone further the

latest that I've seen in the public

record so far are the exhibits attached

to your response to the emergency motion

seeking to quash The subpoena by da

Willis uh there were reported credit

card statements in there that showed

some flights booked um for both Mr Wade

and da Willis you say that you've

obtained new information that goes

further

can you elaborate on

that I don't know if I should at this

point we have let me let me answer it

this way and tell me we have issued

subpoenas based on specific items

contained in those documents and we've

received information back that gives

more detail with regards to what we

learned in those credit cards

statements can you can I actually show

you and and

maybe you can help me understand the

credit card statements better I have

them here um and sometimes I it's I'm a

visual learner sometimes absolutely and

one of the things that I noticed is that

the credit card statements them

themselves show flights to San Francisco

and Miami booked right um on behalf of

passengers named Nathan J Wade and fonny

Willis but you in your filing and in our

conversation here have also mentioned

trips to Aruba and other places can you

point to where in these credit card

statements those pieces of evidence come

up I don't think that

the um the Aruba trip is actually in

these credit card statements it was a

part of the cruise that they went on um

the Royal Caribbean cruise that's in

here uh they flew in and out of Miami

and from Miami they flew to Aruba okay

and it's your belief that that was a

romantic getaway

yes did joyn Wade have a sense that I

can take this back from you did Joyce

and Wade have a sense that this was

happening she did

not one of the things that some folks

have asked about and I want to make sure

you have a chance

to elaborate on it however you choose

um there's a timing question so the

subpoena to Da Willis to testify in the

ongoing divorce case came on January 8th

of this year on the same day a defendant

in the ongoing criminal case in Fulton

County filed a motion to disqualify da

Willis also alleging that da Willis was

engaged in a romantic relationship with

Nathan Wade so on the same day two

separate allegations of the same

romantic relationship there are those

who've wondered whether you coordinated

efforts with anybody who's seeking to

disqualify da Willis from the criminal

case in Fulton County to those people

what would you say I would say

absolutely not we didn't know about a

potential romantic relationship between

Nathan Wade and Vonnie Willis until

immediately Before Christmas when we

came back after the first of a year we

prepared and issued the subpoena we were

actually trying to serve her the week

before and we were not able to perfect

service we finally perfected service on

the eth which I understand I've learned

since that um because this question has

been asked of me that apparently that

was a deadline in the criminal case for

filing motions um I had no idea about

that there certainly was no coordinated

effort what I can say is that adult

adultery is not only a grounds for

divorce in Georgia but it's also a

factor that the court considers in

Equitable division of property so as

soon as I received information

indicating this potential relationship I

went after it as for other people and

the timing of when they did what they

did what they were looking at and where

they got their information I can't speak

to that a total

coincidence I don't generally believe in

coincidence but in this case it

literally happened on the same

day how has this case impacted

joyin so joyin

is she is an incredible woman she's kind

she's sweet she has some health issues

that have gone untreated um because she

has not had access to resources to to

take care of herself and needless to say

in the last few weeks as all of this has

gone on it's it's taken a definite toll

on her she's she's definitely

struggling I know the terms of the

consent order have not been made public

um is Joyce ly satisfied with the

current outcome of the case and and

that's a strange phrase I say current

outcome but this

is not a final disposition correct is

she satisfied with where things stand

now I think that I can without revealing

any confidences say that yes she's very

pleased with where things stand at the

moment can you

share anything about the terms of the

current

agreement beyond the fact that we

established temporary support and and

that Mr Wade is paying attorney's fees

and litigation

expenses I

can't do you have a sense of when a

final disposition will be reached in

this case it's been a two-year long

process

now Nathan Wade has a list of documents

that he has to get to us

and after we receive those

documents we are going to try to mediate

the case within 45 days and if we are

not successful then we will proceed to

the next phase of

litigation I want to Circle back to kind

of where we started here um you jogged

something in my mind there when when you

mentioned kind of the 45 day time frame

as of this point da F Willis has not

given sworn testimony in the divorce

case correct

correct the most current order on the

matter is a stay from the judge in this

case

yes do you foresee a scenario scario in

the future where you would renew your

efforts to get the district attorney to

testify I do foresee a scen scenario in

which I would renew those efforts what

would that look like what would require

you to to get to that point so the next

step the judge wants to hear testimony

from Nathan Wade The Next Step if the

efforts in the next 45 days or so are

not successful would be to depose Mr

Wade And depending on the answer that I

get in that deposition I would then make

a determination as to whether or not to

proceed with revisiting the issue of the

deposition of Da

wellis you say depending on the answers

you would get in that potential

deposition because again if the 45-day

mediation works out there will be no

need for that correct

correct if you do get to a point where

you pursue testimony from Mr Wade what

information

from his deposition would lead you to

then seek more testimony from the

district

attorney oh I have a lot of questions

for Mr Wade about his relationship with

da Willis and more specifically how he

has

dissipated assets as a result of that

relationship that's very relevant to

what we need to deal with in the divorce

case I there's a reason that I subpoena

da Willis before taking or trying to

take Nathan Wade's

deposition and the reason that I did it

in the first place is the reason that I

think I'll need to ultimately and what

is that

reason Nathan Wade has not been

forthcoming in this case and we have

jumped through hoops of fire to obtain

the most basic information from

him sometimes he has

been in my view outright deceptive and

other times he's just playing games with

information and I wanted to go to a

source that I had a more reasonable

belief might possibly tell the

truth I want to end with two final

questions for you um and I guess let's

let's start with this one

um why this is your first sit down

interview on this matter I know you've

spoken on the the courthouse steps I I

saw um that interview but this is the

first time you're sitting down and

having an extended conversation about

this case why talk about it

now I think that there's a lot of

misunderstanding out there on on many

levels with regards to this case what's

going on what's going on now what can be

expected in the near future even so far

as there's a misunderstanding as to what

what the agreement yesterday was and so

it's important to me

that the facts are clear and that the

the record is clear not to talk in legal

e and speaking of legal I I want to

Circle back to sort of the core

component here one more time just so

it's it's Crystal Clear um where where

your perspective is because it has been

a complex case it's a long case it's a

big docket uh

even for folks who are in the profession

I think they would say that this is a

complex matter with a lot to track the

biggest question that surrounded all

this has been proof has been how do you

prove these allegations and these are

serious allegations that there is a

romantic relationship between an elected

official and somebody involved in both a

long-term divorce case and a very

high-profile prosecution so I just want

to put it to you one more time as as

clear as possible what proof do you have

to support the allegation that da fonny

Willis and Nathan Wade had a romantic

relationship I'm not trying to be

slick I have documentary evidence that

suggests to me that they absolutely are

engaging in a romantic relationship and

I wouldn't be pursuing this line of

question this Avenue of

investigation if I wasn't reasonably

certain of that fact I notice the the

tents you use there is are engaged in

your view this is an ongoing current

relationship

yes I always say last question but then

something comes up so I just want to we

did in cour too I know well you you want

to make sure I want it's important to us

that you have every opportunity to

respond to to anything and everything um

you know it comes down to a fairness

issue and so you mentioned you wouldn't

be pursuing this line of questioning if

you weren't reasonably certain of this

there are those who have said

that why does this matter you know it's

it's toddy it's

salacious

why why does this matter why does a

potential relationship between these two

matter to your case to people who ask

that question what would you say I would

say what we just discussed moment ago

that adultery is not only a grounds for

divorce in Georgia it's also a factor

for the judge to consider or the court

to consider in equitably dividing

assets uh the fact that it's become

salacious it's always todry uh in every

case the fact that it's salacious I

think is because of the specific people

involved in this case which obviously we

have no control over but we need to

figure out what's G on and really

probably even more importantly figured

out what portion of this estate has been

lost as a result of this relationship

and that's where it really becomes

relevant so it's about the

money well at the end of the day the

judge said it it's a math problem and so

ultimately we are going to have to bring

it down to numbers but there are you

know they're factual issues to discuss a

26- year marriage a stay-at-home woman

she helped she worked while he went

through law school you know the fact

that he's having an affair and doing

some of the things that he's done before

end during this case is highly relevant

and we have to go into that you

mentioned at times you felt that Nathan

Wade was being deceptive uh outright

deceptive I think was the language that

you used in the efforts to to obtain

information from him it seems

particularly about financial

information describe those deceptions

what are the concerns

what are

the I guess what are you looking for and

what are you worried is being

hidden so I'll I'll give a couple of

examples it's all a matter of record um

we issued a notice of deposition request

for documents to his firm Wade Bradley

Campbell and we received no response

Nathan Wade was the registered agent for

Wade Bradley Campbell no response Wade

Bradley Campbell was representing Nathan

Wade in the beginning of this case and

they were the ones that were putting out

these Discovery responses that were

completely Barren of facts and

information basic information the fact

that we had to find out by watching the

news no

offense that what he his current job was

it's ridiculous and we learned it two

years almost after this case had been

going on because he wouldn't disclose it

he knew the information he has a duty to

seasonably supplement his Discovery and

he just wouldn't do it he kept producing

the same handful of documents that he

knew didn't tell us what we needed to

know and as far as

questions he's he's answered questions

in a way that I do not believe are

truthful Mr Wade's been paid according

to public record hundreds of thousands

of dollars for his role as special

prosecutor in the ongoing criminal case

against former president Trump and other

codefendants related to allegations of

2020 election

interference are those payments at the

core of what information you're seeking

and forgive me to be repetitive on this

but I want to make sure we drill down as

much as possible into the the core

details here and I don't want to put

words in your mouth either so I want to

frame this carefully but are those

payments are those payment records what

you're seeking most of all

that's a piece of it that we've been

seeking payment records tracking the

money you know they say always follow

the money and that's what we've been

trying to do follow where it's been

going and what accounts it's been going

into and where it's ended up and that

has taken a fairly Herculean effort

because there's a lot of inconsistency

with what's happened with the money you

feel that there's been an effort to hide

how much has been

paid in this day and age it's very