Ex-law partner is evasive as attorneys press for details on Willis and Wade's romance in Trump case

Terrence Bradley, special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s former law partner and onetime divorce attorney, walks to the witness stand to testify in court Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Atlanta. Bradley testified as a judge considered an effort by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with a top prosecutor who had been Bradley's law partner. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)

A former law partner of Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade was evasive on the witness stand Tuesday as lawyers pressed him on details about a romantic relationship between Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis that has roiled the 2020 Georgia election case against Donald Trump.

Terrence Bradley, Wade’s one-time divorce attorney, was believed to be a key witness for lawyers seeking to remove Willis from one of four criminal cases against the former president. But when they questioned him, Bradley repeatedly said he did not know or could not remember when Willis and Wade’s relationship began.

When attorneys confronted Bradley about a text message in which he said the relationship started when Willis was working as a judge, Bradley told the court he had only been “speculating.” Defense lawyers appeared to grow increasingly frustrated with his lack of answers, with Trump’s lawyer at one point essentially accusing Bradley of lying on the witness stand.