I don’t know when Georgia DA & colleague got romantic

A key witness in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference racketeering case testified Tuesday that he didn’t know when Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a top prosecutor started a romantic relationship.

Terrence Bradley, a friend and former law partner of Nathan Wade, said he didn’t have any personal knowledge when the affair started, dashing Trump and his co-defendants’ hopes that he might say that Willis and Wade started dating earlier than they admitted on the witness stand.

Bradley insisted that he was only giving his opinion about when the affair started when he told defense lawyers that he believed the affair started before Wade was hired as a top prosecutor in the explosive Trump case.

“I was speculating,” Bradley said. Under brutal grilling by a parade of defense lawyers, Bradley repeatedly said he didn’t recall how he knew or why he might have thought that the affair started earlier.

Bradley’s testimony was considered a potential bombshell as defense attorneys have sought to undercut Willis and Wade’s claims about when their romantic relationship began.

But Bradley didn’t deliver for the Trump team.

Willis and Wade both testified under oath that they didn’t begin dating until after he was hired as special prosecutor in November 2021.

So far the only witness to contradict them was a former friend and disgruntled co-worker of Willis who told the court that she saw the pair hugging and kissing before Wade was hired as special prosecutor.

And an analysis of cell phone location data in a court filing from Trump’s attorneys also shows Wade had visited the neighborhood south of Atlanta where Willis lived at least 35 times during the first 11 months of 2021, an investigator said.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled arguments for Friday afternoon on whether Willis and her office should be removed from the case.

Willis’ removal, which most legal analysts say is still unlikely, would be a stunning development in the most sprawling of the four criminal cases against Trump.

If she were disqualified, a nonpartisan council that supports prosecuting attorneys in Georgia would need to find a new attorney to take over. That successor could either proceed with the charges against Trump and 14 others or drop the case altogether.