According to an affidavit filed by Trump attorneys on Friday, cellphone data obtained from AT&T through a subpoena indicates that Nathan Wade may have made 35 trips to Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis’s Hapeville neighborhood, contradicting his testimony of only ten visits.
This filing raises the possibility that Wade may have committed perjury. The decision of whether to admit the affidavit and phone records into evidence will be made by Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. It is worth noting that Wade is in a romantic relationship with Willis, who hired him as a prosecutor for the case against former President Donald Trump in the election interference case.
Trump and his codefendant, Mike Roman, have accused Willis of maintaining an inappropriate romantic relationship with Wade. Wade testified that his relationship with Willis began in 2022, after she initiated the case against Trump in 2021.
The affidavit directly contradicts that however:
“Trump’s lawyers relied on data collected from Wade’s cellphone and cellphone tower transmissions to track his movements. It seems to contradict Wade’s testimony last week in which he said he had visited Willis at her condo in Hapeville no more than 10 times before he was hired in November 2021. It also indicates Wade twice arrived late at night at the condo and left early the next morning in the months before Willis and Wade said their relationship became romantic early in 2022.
“Both Wade and Willis testified last week that they did not spend the night together at the Hapeville condo.
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“The timeline is important for two reasons. If Willis and Wade were a couple before she hired him it raises the prospect that she may have violated at least the spirit of anti-nepotism rules, though Fulton’s policy specifically focuses on family members. More importantly, both Willis and Wade have testified under oath that the relationship began in 2022. If defense attorneys can prove that they lied under oath it could constitute perjury.”
In the affidavit, it is stated that Willis and Wade had a total of 2,000 phone calls between them in the initial 11 months of 2021. Additionally, they exchanged approximately 12,000 text messages. While testifying, Wade asserted that the cellphone records would be deemed inaccurate if they were in conflict with his testimony.
“So, if phone records were to reflect that you were making phone calls from the same location as the condo before Nov. 1 of 2021, and it was on multiple occasions, the phone records would be wrong?” a Trump lawyer asked Wade.
“If phone records reflected that? Yes, sir,” Wade replied.
“They’d be wrong?” Trump’s lawyer asked.
“They’d be wrong,” Wade said.
