I covered this yesterday but the report I saw did not disclose that Fani Willis was warning Terrence Bradley about talking about the affair itself. The sense I got from the report I linked was that she was telling people not to talk about how much money she was paying her Oily Bohunk.

But indeed, the witness says she overheard a phone call in which District Attorney Fani Willis instructed Terrence Bradley to lie to any investigators or lawyers who asked about the affair, telling him, in a September 2023 phone call, "They are coming after us. You don't need to talk to them about anything about us."

Ed Morrissey comments:

Yeager will apparently also testify that Willis lied about the start of her affair with Nathan Wade based on her conversations with Bradley, but that might be secondary at this point. If Yeager directly witnessed Willis telling Bradley not to talk to investigators for the defense in the case, that would arguably mean witness tampering by the prosecuting office. The triggering event was contemporaneous reporting on the massive amount of fees Willis had already paid Wade in the case ($650,000), but the sudden interest on those payments were bound to start having investigators probing why Willis authorized such an enormous amount of fees to an attorney who'd never tried a felony case in his career. If the filing is on the level, it indicates that Willis was already worried about having their sexual relationship exposed.

Willis may argue in opposition to Schaefer's filing that Bradley wasn't material to the case and the motivation was to simply prevent personal embarrassment, but this wasn't the only case involved. Don't forget that Wade had filed for his divorce nearly two years prior to September 2023. By the point of this alleged call, Wade had dragged out discovery for so long that he'd get cited for contempt shortly after this. If the Willis-Wade affair began before Wade filed for divorce in November 2021 -- within a day of being hired by Willis for the RICO case -- then that would be material to the divorce case and Joycelyn Wade's counter-claims. And by that time, Mrs. Wade and her attorney had been trying to prove her husband's infidelity for some time. Telling Bradley to shut up may have been Willis' attempt to interfere in the divorce proceeding on Wade's behalf.

Well, I mean, it was obviously also intended to stop the Trump co-defendants from finding out about the affair and the conflict of interest. She was engaged in trying to impose the rule of omerta on anyone who knew about her little arrangement with Sweetdick. None of the Trump co-defendants were asking about this in September 2023, but Fani Willis knew that if word got out they sure would start asking about it.

And of course word did get out. Terrence Bradley himself told Ashleigh Merchant about the affair, and one presumes she heard it from someone else who was afraid of Fani Willis' retribution so did not want to be a witness, but offered up Terrence Bradley as another witness. And indeed Terrence Bradley was afraid of Fani Willis -- when asked if other people knew about the affair and would sign a statement confirming it, Bradley responded, He responded: "No... no one would freely burn that bridge." Bradley was only talking about it in secrecy and with the understanding that he would never be called as a witness -- and when he was called as a witness, he suddenly had a bad case of sudden onset amnesia, like the witness against the Corleones in Godfather Part II.

This is Terrence Bradley's testimony to the letter -- suddenly he can't remember any of the facts he previously gave a statement about.