I can't back that headline up. It might be a just a tetch exaggerated.
However, a former employee and former "good friend" did finally testify that Fani has been Ridin' Dirty with Sweetdick since October-November 2019.
Nathan Wade, who is now known on the streets by his callboy name of Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., filed a statement with the court that their relationship did not begin until after he was hired to be the Very Special Prosecutor in the Trump persecution. Fani Willis then submitted that statement as her answer to the disqualification motion, thereby affirming that perjured statement herself, with her own signature appended to it.
They are both repeatedly perjuring themselves because it's already bad, and disqualifying, if Fani started banging Sweetdick after she hired him, given that he then basically engaged in kickbacks by using some of the $650,000+ she paid to him with taxpayer money to pay for cruises, air flights, and hotel rooms.
But if she was already banging him and decided to hire her Callboy with taxpayer money... well that's misuse of taxpayer funds for personal benefit right there. And conflict of interest, because Fani Willis has a personal interest in keeping her Hired Wang living large. She has an incentive to keep this clownshow going and ring up the maximum number of billable hours.
As mentioned in the sidebar, Sweetdick's lawyers have objected to virtually every single question and answer. They claimed an impossibly broad "attorney-client privilege" for his sometime lawyer Terrence Bradley, claiming that not only were actual communications privileged, but anything Bradley just observed with his eyes.
Note that lawyer-client communications are protected, not lawyer-client personal observations. But Bradley claimed the latter were protected, and refused to answer.
In fact, not all lawyer-client communications are protected. Just those made in service of preparing for a case or seeking advice. If Sweedick rolled in one morning and said "Smell my fingers," that's not a lawyer-client privileged communications.
I don't know how that was resolved as I had to stop listening for a bit. I imagine the judge rejected this claim, but I think they mentioned that any denial of a claim of privilege would be certified to the state supreme court for their ruling.
Then a former employee and former "good friend" of Fani Willis', Robin Yeartie, was called, and the lawyers repeatedly objected to every question about her knowledge of their affair, claiming it's "hearsay" for her to report what Fani Willis told her. (Statement against interest is an exception to the hearsay rule.) Ultimately, this witness did testify the affair began in October or November of 2019, making Fani and Sweetdick perjurers. They're not impeaching her testimony, painting her as an angry ex-employee who was disciplined for poor work performance. The only headway Sweetdick's lawyers have made is getting this woman to say she had no knowledge of Fani and Sweetdick actually cohabitating.
Why is this important? Attorneys cannot willfully lie or misrepresent the truth in court filings. They risk both perjury charges and disbarment for doing so. They can refuse to answer and risk a contempt charge, and then hope an appellate court will intervene. But that's not what Willis did; she declared that her relationship started in 2022. Yeartie's testimony exposes that as a lie, assuming Judge Scott McAfee finds it credible. And that alone could and almost certainly would disqualify her in this case, forcing an end to Fulton County's participation in the case.
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That's still a big if, but Yeartie moved the ball quite a distance to that today. We'll see if Merchant has any other witnesses willing to testify to it.
At the moment, Merchant has Wade on the stand and is grilling Wade on his own prior representations to this court and in his divorce. He's trying to dance around conflicting claims over the receipts and bank records over his travel with Willis. I don't know if Wade's semantics are impressing the judge, but I don't think they're impressing anyone else.
Sweetdick's on the stand now. He's claiming he didn't perjure himself when he claimed he had no affair "during his marriage" because, in his mind, the marriage was "irretrievably broken" and therefore, in his mind, the marriage was over.
Imma start calling him Sweetongue!
Apparently the defense to perjury is going to be: Maybe we had sex before she hired me, but in my mind, the "relationship" didn't begin until 2021!