Nathan Wade, former special prosecutor for Fulton County, Georgia, said the romantic relationship he had with District Attorney Fani Willis has “no place” to be discussed in a courtroom.
“I felt like we handled it in a professional manner. We keep our personal lives personal and private,” Wade told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Wednesday. “And I still believe he had no place in court. Not now and not then.”
Wade was asked about his romantic relationship with Willis, which was revealed during the lawsuit against former President Trump and his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
He recently said in an interview with ABC News that a romantic relationship with co-workers is as “American as apple pie.” He clarified his comments on Wednesday, saying workplace romances “can happen to anyone.”
“This was not to alleviate the situation. This was just to say that this can happen to anyone. Of course, we are not talking about extremes, [it] It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it’s something that happens,” he said. “It’s something that happened to us.”
Wade said their relationship “grew organically” over time and was not “deliberate or intentional.”
The special prosecutor stepped away from the Trump case in mid-March after the judge ruled that he or Willis must do so in order for the case to proceed.
Judge Scott McAfee was against Republican calls for Willis’s dismissal, although he sharply criticized the conflict of interest created by both working on such a high-profile case.
Wade offered his resignation so that Willis could continue his lawsuit. He said Wednesday that although they no longer speak about the case, they remain “best friends” and communicate almost daily about their personal lives and the threats they have each received since their relationship became public.
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