Attorneys for the Fulton County district attorney’s office denied claims by former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants that recently surfaced cellphone data proves the lawyer was in a relationship with the top prosecutor in the Georgia election subversion case prior to when the two had initially said.
Representatives for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis stated in a court ruling filed late Friday that the Trump camp’s claims in an earlier motion “do not prove anything relevant” and should be removed from evidence in the case.
Trump’s motion, sent to the Washington Examiner by Trump attorney Steve Sadow, cited data collected from Wade’s cellphone and cellphone tower transmissions to track his movements and location, which appear to contradict Wade’s testimony last week, when he said he visited Willis at her condo no more than 10 times before he was hired in November 2021.
“The records do nothing more than demonstrate that Special Prosecutor Wade’s telephone was located somewhere within a densely populated multiple-mile radius where various residences, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and other businesses are located,” the prosecution wrote in its response.
“The records do not prove, in any way, the content of the communications between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis; they do not prove that Special Prosecutor Wade was ever at any particular location or address; they do not prove that Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis were ever in the same place during any of the times listed,” it continued.
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The DA’s office also questioned how the Trump team obtained the cell phone information cited in its motion and if it had done so legally.
Willis hired Wade as special prosecutor to lead the 2020 election investigation into Trump, and between 2022 and 2023, Wade was paid more than $600,000 by the district attorney’s office. The Trump legal team has claimed that the two began dating before 2022, and argued the romance put the two in a conflict of interest for the Trump case.
