District Attorney Fani Willis will not testify again Friday morning following her three hours on the witness stand Thursday answering blistering questions about her affair with Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade.
The embattled Fulton County DA had been slated to resume testifying Friday morning at 9 a.m. but lawyers from her office informed Judge Scott McAfee they wouldn’t subject the top prosecutor to further questions.
The revelation Ashleigh Merchant — a lawyer for Trump-co defendant Mike Roman — scrambling for her next witness Terrence Bradley who wouldn’t be in court until the later morning due to a medical appointment.
In the meantime, the lawyers on both sides will debate whether Bradley — Wade’s former law partner and one-time divorce attorney — should be forced to answer questions he refused to answer Thursday, citing attorney-client privilege.
Bradley — who was expected to be Merchant’s star witness — had a brief stint on the witness stand on Thursday, starting the hearing off with a gentle thud rather than the fireworks that were expected from him.
As Merchant started questioning him about when Wade and Willis started dating, Bradley said he couldn’t answer any questions about Wade since he was once Wade’s divorce lawyer in Wade’s ongoing and contentious divorce.
But McAfee seemed skeptical that Bradly should be able to use attorney-client privilege to get out of all questions.
Merchant launched the bombshell inquiry into Willis and Wade’s relationship last month as she sought to kick Willis off the case and get the criminal election fraud charges dropped against Roman.
The former president and many of the other remaining 14 co-defendants have since joined Roman’s motion to disqualify Willis.
WIllis and Wade copped to their romantic relationship earlier this month but insisted that it didn’t begin until 2022 — after Willis appointed Wade to the special prosecutor position in November 2021.
The pair both testified separately Thursday that they split in the summer of 2023.
Willis testimony was combative as she accused Merchant of lying and told the lawyer not to be “cute” with her.
At one point Willis got so angry, she yelled “It is a lie! It is a lie!” prompting McAfee to immediately call a five-minute break and warn the prosecutor not to interrupt, warning he’d have to strike her answers from the record if she kept it up.