Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand Thursday to defend herself from efforts to remove her from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case, angrily pushing back against what she described as “lies” about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor.
In an extraordinary moment in a hearing that could lead to her disqualification from the case, a fiery Willis agreed to testify after a previous witness said the relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade began earlier than they had claimed. Willis and Wade both testified that they began dating in 2022, after he was hired as special prosecutor.
Willis’ attorneys had originally fought to keep her off the witness stand, but Willis said she was eager to set the record straight, saying, “It’s highly offensive when someone lies on you.”
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