Nathan Wade, a former special prosecutor in Georgia's election interference case against former President Trump, said during a recent interview that he didn't believe he did anything wrong and believed he was being treated unfairly.
Wade resigned from the case after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with District Attorney Fani Willis. During an interview on Monday, ABC News' Linsey Davis asked Wade if she felt he had done something wrong.
“I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. I feel like, I guess in my silence, I've been treated a little bit unfairly, a little bit harshly,” he responded.
Former special counsel in the election interference case against Donald Trump, Nathan Wade, spoke with ABC News' Linsey Davis in an interview that aired Monday, May 6, 2024. (Screenshot/ABC)
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Wade was serving as a prosecutor in a case against Trump, who faces accusations of illegally attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Wade was forced to resign from the case over allegations that he and Willis had an “inappropriate” romantic relationship.
Willis hired Wade in 2021 and the couple claims their relationship began in 2022. Wade said their relationship ended in the summer of 2023, but they remained friends.
Davis asked Wade to respond to criticism of him and Willis, specifically a Washington Post columnist who wrote, “What were they thinking?”
“You don't plan to develop feelings. You don't plan to fall in love. You don't plan to have any workplace relationships. You don't set out to do that. Those things develop organically. They develop over time. And the moment we had that sobering moment, we discontinued it,” he said.
Davis also asked if the couple ever considered pausing their relationship because “democracy is at stake.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing in the State of Georgia's case against Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta. (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)
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“That might have been an approach. But when you're in the middle, these feelings develop, and you get to a point where the feelings are so strong that you start wanting to do things that aren't really in the public's interest.” It wasn't lost on both of us that things could affect the case and start to affect it,” Wade said. “So we made the adult decision to do what we did.”
Davis asked him to explain what he meant by “do what we did.”
“In terms of protecting the integrity of the case, keeping the rest of the office out of our personal and private lives, and the moment we decided to discontinue the relationship, we did,” he said.
Former Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade testifies during a hearing in the State of Georgia's case against Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images)
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Davis rejected Wade's claim that the two ended their relationship out of fear it could influence the case, as he suggested. She believed they broke up because they had differences in “the value of a man and a woman in a relationship”, and referred to Willis' accusation that Wade had once told him “the only thing a woman can do for him is make him a sandwich.” “
But Wade said the two were not at odds over any heated arguments about the inherent roles of men and women in a relationship. She added that the comment Willis referenced was probably made in “joking.”
“Workplace romances are as American as apple pie,” Wade said at the beginning of the interview. “It happens to everyone. But it happened to the two of us.”
