KISS & DON’T TELL

Fani ‘hush’ claim

A new witness could testify that Fani Willis warned lover Nathan Wade’s former business partner to stay quiet about their affair, an explosive new court filing claims.

“They are coming after us. You don’t need to talk to them about anything about us,” Willis is alleged to have warned Terrence Bradley in a September 2023 phone call.

The call was overheard by Cobb County, Ga., prosecutor Cindi Lee Yeager, according to court papers filed Monday by David Schafer, a co-defendant of former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election-interfering RICO case.

Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, is battling to stay in her post overseeing the case, which charged Trump and 18 others.

She stands accused of carrying on a relationship with Wade, whom she appointed as special prosecutor while hiding the affair from the court, presenting a conflict of interest.

Willis and Wade have said under oath they were only romantic between 2022 and 2023, after the case started.

At a hearing last week on whether to disqualify Willis, Bradley claimed on the stand that he had no “knowledge” of when the two prosecutors began dating.

But the filing says Yeager would swear under oath that the claim was at odds with what Bradley told Yeager in person — that the romance began in 2019, during Willis’ DA campaign.

‘Absolutely’ an item

Bradley also texted a lawyer for another Trump codefendant the pair were “absolutely” dating before Willis hired Wade to manage the Trump prosecution in November 2021 — and then muttered, “Oh, dang” when confronted with that evidence on the stand.

Willis testified that she began dating Wade in 2022, after she hired him. The timeline is important because if it can be proven that Willis lied on the stand, it would likely result in her being booted from the case.

But Willis’ office has argued that Bradley — who testified that his claims about Wade and Willis were “speculation” — is an unreliable witness who “had every motive to lie” after he’d left Wade’s law practice under suspicion of sexual assault.

It was not immediately clear Monday whether the court would re-open the hearing to receive additional evidence.