Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand Thursday and forcefully pushed back against what she described as “lies” about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor during an extraordinary hearing over misconduct allegations that threaten to upend one of four criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.
![Judge Nathan Wade, associate municipal court judge in Marietta (also attorney at Wade, Bradley & Campbell in Marietta). Courtesy Photo](https://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/404/2024/01/Judge-Nathan-Wade_2-767x633-300x247.jpg)
A visibly upset Willis, who originally fought to stay off the witness stand, agreed to testify after a previous witness said her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade began earlier than they had claimed. The district attorney’s testimony grew heated under questioning from a defense attorney who’s trying to remove Willis from Trump’s 2020 election interference case, with the prosecutor at one point raising papers in front of her and shouting: “It’s a lie!”