The “star witness” does not give a shit about Ms. Millis, what she did or did not do, etc.: all that matters is delaying 58 months.
Star witness is probably getting paid by Trump
Because he’s a liar. People telling the truth can’t wait to talk.
Edit – for the people claiming liars love to talk all the time. No they don’t, especially when they’re sworn in and under oath. Remember Trump took the fifth over 450 times while being interviewed in the NY AG civil probe?!?! Wonder why, LOL.
ATLANTA — A man billed as the “star witness” in the case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) took the stand Friday and acknowledged he exchanged text messages about Willis with the defense attorney who first raised allegations that Willis was engaged in an improper personal relationship with the outside attorney she appointed to lead the case against Donald Trump.
But Terrence Bradley, a former law partner of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, repeatedly declined to answer questions under oath about what he knew about the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade. Bradley, who previously represented Wade his ongoing divorce, cited concerns he might violate attorney-client privilege and could be disbarred.
However, in a dramatic moment, an attorney for Bradley later asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee if his client could be released from that privilege after a prosecutor claimed during cross-examination that Bradley and Wade ended their legal partnership after Bradley was accused of sexually assaulting an employee and a client. Prosecutors implied this raised questions about Bradley’s credibility as a witness and whether he had ill will toward Wade.
Bradley, who emphatically denied he had sexually assaulted anyone, admitted the employee’s claims had led him to sever his partnership with Wade. He testified that he still considered Wade to be “a friend.”
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The revelation, which came near the end of a two-day evidentiary hearing on misconduct claims against Willis, led McAfee to abruptly end Bradley’s testimony. McAfee said he would meet with Bradley and his attorney in a private hearing to consider whether Wade’s attorney-client privilege claim with Bradley had been pierced and whether Bradley could be forced to answer questions about Willis and Wade.
McAfee will ultimately have to decide if the prosecutors’ relationship created a conflict of interest or the appearance of one — and if Willis’s office should be removed from the case or if any of the charges should be dropped against Trump or his allies, who are accused of criminally conspiring to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. That decision probably won’t come soon: McAfee said Friday he will schedule another hearing for late next week or the following for closing arguments. The scandal has threatened to imperil the criminal case against the former president, and Willis’s allies worry it has hurt her credibility.
Bradley’s silence on what he knew about Willis and Wade’s relationship, including when it began, came as Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for co-defendant Mike Roman, presented text messages and an email showing that she had been communicating with Bradley since September when she began investigating allegations of an improper romantic relationship between Wade and Willis.
The exchanges presented in open court suggested that Bradley had been a key source for Merchant, who has claimed that Willis was already in a romantic relationship with Wade when she appointed him to lead the election case.
Bradley initially testified he did not recall conversations with Merchant, claiming that he had communicated with her through a “third party.” But he eventually acknowledged that he spoke to Merchant by phone and later exchanged text messages as she sought to confirm rumors that Willis and Wade were a couple.
In one message introduced as evidence by Merchant, she had messaged Bradley asking if he knew of anyone who would give her “an affidavit … about the affair.”
Examining his own phone, Bradley confirmed that he responded, “No one would freely burn that bridge.”
Bradley also confirmed that he texted with Merchant about trips Willis and Wade took together and how Wade had used his corporate card to pay for them. Bradley confirmed Merchant had sent him a copy of the Jan. 8 motion she filed that first detailed allegations of an improper relationship between Willis and Wade.
“Looks good,” Bradley texted Merchant in response to her filing — a message he confirmed under oath.
In a motion last week, Merchant claimed Bradley would “refute” claims by Willis and Wade that their romantic relationship did not begin until after Nov. 1, 2021 — the date he was appointed to lead the Trump investigation. But Bradley repeatedly testified that he had “no personal knowledge” of when their relationship began — a claim that visibly frustrated Merchant and other defense attorneys who strongly implied that Bradley had relayed different information in his earlier communications with Merchant.
Special prosecutor Anna Cross, who is leading efforts to help Willis retain control of the case, accused Merchant and Bradley of trading “gossip” and “hearsay,” as lawyers from both sides battled for hours over what Bradley could and could not testify about. The back and forth came after Bradley, who briefly testified Thursday morning, failed to appear Friday morning for scheduled testimony. His attorney claimed that Bradley had a medical appointment.
But McAfee, a typically opaque presence on the bench, was visibly annoyed, telling the attorney that Bradley had not previously informed the court about a medical visit and warned that he was in potential violation of his subpoena.
One day earlier, Willis testified and angrily sparred with Merchant and other defense attorneys whom she accused of spreading “lies” about her and her relationship with Wade. Willis had been scheduled to return to the witness stand Friday morning for prosecution questioning, but as the hearing got underway, Cross announced she had no questions for Willis and the district attorney’s appearance was concluded.
Instead, prosecutors called other witnesses to bolster Willis’s claims on the stand, including her testimony that Wade was not her first choice to lead the investigation. Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) testified about an October 2021 meeting where he turned down Willis when she asked him to take on the case. He said he had concerns about income and potential threats that came with taking on the high-profile case against a former president.
“I have mouths to feed at a law office and that I could not, I would not do that,” Barnes testified. “I’d lived with bodyguards for four years, and I didn’t like it. I wasn’t going to live with bodyguards for the rest of my life.”
Prosecutors also called Willis’s father, John Clifford Floyd III, a former criminal defense attorney who at one point lived with his daughter in her Atlanta-area home. Floyd testified that Willis moved out at his urging when threats against her began to escalate, while he remained, taking care of the property — a brand-new home that his daughter had built only to be forced to leave it.
At a Feb. 16 misconduct hearing Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis’s father John Floyd denied ever meeting prosecutor Nathan Wade before 2021. (Video: The Washington Post)
“Somebody needed to protect the house,” Floyd said, recalling how he once cleaned “the b-word and the n-word” that had been spray painted on the house, not telling his daughter about it. The threats soon became too much and now the house is “uninhabitable,” he testified.
Floyd said under oath that he had not met Wade until last year and didn’t learn of his daughter’s relationship with him until seven weeks ago — when the rest of the world did. While the two are extremely close, Floyd said he and his daughter don’t talk to each other about their romantic lives. “I haven’t confided in her about mine before — when I had one,” he said.
At Thursday’s hearing, defense attorneys seized on comments Willis and Wade made about her repaying him for trips in cash, exchanges for which they did not have documentation. Trump has accused Willis in social media posts of not having actually made those repayments and, therefore, financially benefited from appointing Wade to the case.
But Floyd tried to explain to the court on Friday that he taught Willis to always have large amounts of cash on hand in her home. He said he owned multiple safes of his own and had proudly purchased his daughter “her first cash box,” where he encouraged her to always keep at least six months’ worth of money.
He said the advice was driven by his own experience, where people had sometimes refused to take credit cards or travelers checks from him because “of the color of my skin.”
“Excuse me, your honor, I’m not trying to be racist. But it’s a Black thing, okay?” Floyd said. “I was trained, and most Black folks, they hide cash or they keep cash.”
A few points stand out to me on all of this from the past couple days:
1.) With all the threats Fani has had to endure already, I greatly fear someone is going to try to break into her house looking for her cash on hand.
2.) IANAL, but doesn’t Attorney-Client privilege always remain with the client? Bradley can’t waive his privilege in regards to Wade, only Wade could give permission for his information to be discussed. Notwithstanding crime-fraud exception.
3.) I am a white man. I would like to learn more in regards to keeping money in the house. Is this as common and well-known in the black community as Mr. Floyd told the court? Seems reasonable to me, and sensible.
This hearing is nothing more than a sophisticated 21st century “poll tax” being demanded of Ms. Willis for her dedication to the law and the prosecution of the slimy codefendant and crony of the seditionist to desperately avoid their impending imprisonment.
Why did the judge even agree to this unless he’s intent on dragging Willis through the mud, too?
*Star* witness who seems to have some serious credibility issues. Donnie sure knows how to find them… lol
Quite a mess, but irrelevant ?
Star witness learned what perjury is
Fani is the one to blame, she knows damn well that she better have her shit together
“What you talking about Willis” admitted to keeping campaign cash. Cased closed.
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I don’t even understand what is so scandalous? They are both prosecutors. So what if they briefly dated? There is no affair or anything — two single attorneys dated for awhile then broke up. That’s it.
Obviously I would be concerned if one of them was working for the defense — but they are literally on the same side. It doesn’t have anything to do with the actual case.
They aren’t even alleging anything was improperly handled or withheld from evidence, or witness tampering — nothing. All they are claiming is they may not have split their private vacations 50/50? So what?
Why would it matter if they didn’t? It’s got nothing to do with the false elector scheme to overthrow the election. Who paid for which margarita while they dated is totally irrelevant.
I can’t believe they even approved a hearing about this. Trump does this with all of his cases, he tried to claim the judge in his civil case was sleeping with his clerk. It’s all horseshit.
All that money is probably not looking so good, right now. Especially with the Burisma “source” going to prison for such a long time for lying.
I bet a lot of people are receiving money from Trump to defend hid moronic Ass. They spew allegations, when asked for the proof, they have none. The republicans are just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. It’s all such bullshit. Jim Jordan is a useless human.
This is just another example of trump trying not to be held accountable for his crimes even if it means destroying good people’s lives.
If I was facing potential perjury charges, I would also stay silent
Can someone explain to me why the prosecutor Cross asked Bradley about sexual assault? Wasn’t he “helping them”?
So the guy who got canned for sexual harassing an employee and a client plays footsie with a scumbag Trump attorney talking smack about the guy who fired him, until it gets down to perjuring himself in court and goes silent then no show.
so trumpian
Oh wow I’m so shocked at this. 😒
My heart goes out to Ms. Willis and the ordeal she is suffering due to threats of violence against her. And after witnessing her father on the witness side, his pride and love for her daughter was unmistakable. He was a credible witness and added dignity and gravitas to this unfair proceeding against Ms. Willis. She is correct: she is not the one on trial.
This whole ordeal just appeared so petty. I know it was theater, but Fani Willis jumping in that seat to testify was exactly where the People that oppose this fascist none sense need to jump. When you come at them as hard as they do they end up either looking stupid, weak, or both.
How does any drama Willis and Wade generate come close to what Trump does. The only reason we know about this us Trump’s lawyer is screaming and ahouting. I can’t buy that this a distraction. Even if it is, it hurts the prosecution.
Thus is a standard rightwing ploy. They will tear your life apart, and that of your family, friends, and colleagues. When they find out that you had a parking ticket 10 years ago, they blow it out of proportion and use it to discredit you. Never mind that the person they are defending is a gutless sexual predator.
Does this mean that paying your kid’s GF 150K to make a couple of talks is now bad? It did not use to be bad
This is textbook case of abuse of process and should be considered vexatious litigation. Trump’s lawyers should be held in contempt for trying to taint the jury pool.
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The “star witness” does not give a shit about Ms. Millis, what she did or did not do, etc.: all that matters is delaying 58 months.
Star witness is probably getting paid by Trump
Because he’s a liar. People telling the truth can’t wait to talk.
Edit – for the people claiming liars love to talk all the time. No they don’t, especially when they’re sworn in and under oath. Remember Trump took the fifth over 450 times while being interviewed in the NY AG civil probe?!?! Wonder why, LOL.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna42355
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ATLANTA — A man billed as the “star witness” in the case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) took the stand Friday and acknowledged he exchanged text messages about Willis with the defense attorney who first raised allegations that Willis was engaged in an improper personal relationship with the outside attorney she appointed to lead the case against Donald Trump.
But Terrence Bradley, a former law partner of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, repeatedly declined to answer questions under oath about what he knew about the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade. Bradley, who previously represented Wade his ongoing divorce, cited concerns he might violate attorney-client privilege and could be disbarred.
However, in a dramatic moment, an attorney for Bradley later asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee if his client could be released from that privilege after a prosecutor claimed during cross-examination that Bradley and Wade ended their legal partnership after Bradley was accused of sexually assaulting an employee and a client. Prosecutors implied this raised questions about Bradley’s credibility as a witness and whether he had ill will toward Wade.
Bradley, who emphatically denied he had sexually assaulted anyone, admitted the employee’s claims had led him to sever his partnership with Wade. He testified that he still considered Wade to be “a friend.”
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The revelation, which came near the end of a two-day evidentiary hearing on misconduct claims against Willis, led McAfee to abruptly end Bradley’s testimony. McAfee said he would meet with Bradley and his attorney in a private hearing to consider whether Wade’s attorney-client privilege claim with Bradley had been pierced and whether Bradley could be forced to answer questions about Willis and Wade.
McAfee will ultimately have to decide if the prosecutors’ relationship created a conflict of interest or the appearance of one — and if Willis’s office should be removed from the case or if any of the charges should be dropped against Trump or his allies, who are accused of criminally conspiring to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. That decision probably won’t come soon: McAfee said Friday he will schedule another hearing for late next week or the following for closing arguments. The scandal has threatened to imperil the criminal case against the former president, and Willis’s allies worry it has hurt her credibility.
Bradley’s silence on what he knew about Willis and Wade’s relationship, including when it began, came as Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for co-defendant Mike Roman, presented text messages and an email showing that she had been communicating with Bradley since September when she began investigating allegations of an improper romantic relationship between Wade and Willis.
The exchanges presented in open court suggested that Bradley had been a key source for Merchant, who has claimed that Willis was already in a romantic relationship with Wade when she appointed him to lead the election case.
Bradley initially testified he did not recall conversations with Merchant, claiming that he had communicated with her through a “third party.” But he eventually acknowledged that he spoke to Merchant by phone and later exchanged text messages as she sought to confirm rumors that Willis and Wade were a couple.
In one message introduced as evidence by Merchant, she had messaged Bradley asking if he knew of anyone who would give her “an affidavit … about the affair.”
Examining his own phone, Bradley confirmed that he responded, “No one would freely burn that bridge.”
Bradley also confirmed that he texted with Merchant about trips Willis and Wade took together and how Wade had used his corporate card to pay for them. Bradley confirmed Merchant had sent him a copy of the Jan. 8 motion she filed that first detailed allegations of an improper relationship between Willis and Wade.
“Looks good,” Bradley texted Merchant in response to her filing — a message he confirmed under oath.
In a motion last week, Merchant claimed Bradley would “refute” claims by Willis and Wade that their romantic relationship did not begin until after Nov. 1, 2021 — the date he was appointed to lead the Trump investigation. But Bradley repeatedly testified that he had “no personal knowledge” of when their relationship began — a claim that visibly frustrated Merchant and other defense attorneys who strongly implied that Bradley had relayed different information in his earlier communications with Merchant.
Special prosecutor Anna Cross, who is leading efforts to help Willis retain control of the case, accused Merchant and Bradley of trading “gossip” and “hearsay,” as lawyers from both sides battled for hours over what Bradley could and could not testify about. The back and forth came after Bradley, who briefly testified Thursday morning, failed to appear Friday morning for scheduled testimony. His attorney claimed that Bradley had a medical appointment.
But McAfee, a typically opaque presence on the bench, was visibly annoyed, telling the attorney that Bradley had not previously informed the court about a medical visit and warned that he was in potential violation of his subpoena.
One day earlier, Willis testified and angrily sparred with Merchant and other defense attorneys whom she accused of spreading “lies” about her and her relationship with Wade. Willis had been scheduled to return to the witness stand Friday morning for prosecution questioning, but as the hearing got underway, Cross announced she had no questions for Willis and the district attorney’s appearance was concluded.
Instead, prosecutors called other witnesses to bolster Willis’s claims on the stand, including her testimony that Wade was not her first choice to lead the investigation. Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) testified about an October 2021 meeting where he turned down Willis when she asked him to take on the case. He said he had concerns about income and potential threats that came with taking on the high-profile case against a former president.
“I have mouths to feed at a law office and that I could not, I would not do that,” Barnes testified. “I’d lived with bodyguards for four years, and I didn’t like it. I wasn’t going to live with bodyguards for the rest of my life.”
Prosecutors also called Willis’s father, John Clifford Floyd III, a former criminal defense attorney who at one point lived with his daughter in her Atlanta-area home. Floyd testified that Willis moved out at his urging when threats against her began to escalate, while he remained, taking care of the property — a brand-new home that his daughter had built only to be forced to leave it.
At a Feb. 16 misconduct hearing Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis’s father John Floyd denied ever meeting prosecutor Nathan Wade before 2021. (Video: The Washington Post)
“Somebody needed to protect the house,” Floyd said, recalling how he once cleaned “the b-word and the n-word” that had been spray painted on the house, not telling his daughter about it. The threats soon became too much and now the house is “uninhabitable,” he testified.
Floyd said under oath that he had not met Wade until last year and didn’t learn of his daughter’s relationship with him until seven weeks ago — when the rest of the world did. While the two are extremely close, Floyd said he and his daughter don’t talk to each other about their romantic lives. “I haven’t confided in her about mine before — when I had one,” he said.
At Thursday’s hearing, defense attorneys seized on comments Willis and Wade made about her repaying him for trips in cash, exchanges for which they did not have documentation. Trump has accused Willis in social media posts of not having actually made those repayments and, therefore, financially benefited from appointing Wade to the case.
But Floyd tried to explain to the court on Friday that he taught Willis to always have large amounts of cash on hand in her home. He said he owned multiple safes of his own and had proudly purchased his daughter “her first cash box,” where he encouraged her to always keep at least six months’ worth of money.
He said the advice was driven by his own experience, where people had sometimes refused to take credit cards or travelers checks from him because “of the color of my skin.”
“Excuse me, your honor, I’m not trying to be racist. But it’s a Black thing, okay?” Floyd said. “I was trained, and most Black folks, they hide cash or they keep cash.”
A few points stand out to me on all of this from the past couple days:
1.) With all the threats Fani has had to endure already, I greatly fear someone is going to try to break into her house looking for her cash on hand.
2.) IANAL, but doesn’t Attorney-Client privilege always remain with the client? Bradley can’t waive his privilege in regards to Wade, only Wade could give permission for his information to be discussed. Notwithstanding crime-fraud exception.
3.) I am a white man. I would like to learn more in regards to keeping money in the house. Is this as common and well-known in the black community as Mr. Floyd told the court? Seems reasonable to me, and sensible.
This hearing is nothing more than a sophisticated 21st century “poll tax” being demanded of Ms. Willis for her dedication to the law and the prosecution of the slimy codefendant and crony of the seditionist to desperately avoid their impending imprisonment.
Why did the judge even agree to this unless he’s intent on dragging Willis through the mud, too?
*Star* witness who seems to have some serious credibility issues. Donnie sure knows how to find them… lol
Quite a mess, but irrelevant ?
Star witness learned what perjury is
Fani is the one to blame, she knows damn well that she better have her shit together
“What you talking about Willis” admitted to keeping campaign cash. Cased closed.
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I don’t even understand what is so scandalous? They are both prosecutors. So what if they briefly dated? There is no affair or anything — two single attorneys dated for awhile then broke up. That’s it.
Obviously I would be concerned if one of them was working for the defense — but they are literally on the same side. It doesn’t have anything to do with the actual case.
They aren’t even alleging anything was improperly handled or withheld from evidence, or witness tampering — nothing. All they are claiming is they may not have split their private vacations 50/50? So what?
Why would it matter if they didn’t? It’s got nothing to do with the false elector scheme to overthrow the election. Who paid for which margarita while they dated is totally irrelevant.
I can’t believe they even approved a hearing about this. Trump does this with all of his cases, he tried to claim the judge in his civil case was sleeping with his clerk. It’s all horseshit.
All that money is probably not looking so good, right now. Especially with the Burisma “source” going to prison for such a long time for lying.
I bet a lot of people are receiving money from Trump to defend hid moronic Ass. They spew allegations, when asked for the proof, they have none. The republicans are just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. It’s all such bullshit. Jim Jordan is a useless human.
This is just another example of trump trying not to be held accountable for his crimes even if it means destroying good people’s lives.
If I was facing potential perjury charges, I would also stay silent
Can someone explain to me why the prosecutor Cross asked Bradley about sexual assault? Wasn’t he “helping them”?
So the guy who got canned for sexual harassing an employee and a client plays footsie with a scumbag Trump attorney talking smack about the guy who fired him, until it gets down to perjuring himself in court and goes silent then no show.
so trumpian
Oh wow I’m so shocked at this. 😒
My heart goes out to Ms. Willis and the ordeal she is suffering due to threats of violence against her. And after witnessing her father on the witness side, his pride and love for her daughter was unmistakable. He was a credible witness and added dignity and gravitas to this unfair proceeding against Ms. Willis. She is correct: she is not the one on trial.
This whole ordeal just appeared so petty. I know it was theater, but Fani Willis jumping in that seat to testify was exactly where the People that oppose this fascist none sense need to jump. When you come at them as hard as they do they end up either looking stupid, weak, or both.
How does any drama Willis and Wade generate come close to what Trump does. The only reason we know about this us Trump’s lawyer is screaming and ahouting. I can’t buy that this a distraction. Even if it is, it hurts the prosecution.
Thus is a standard rightwing ploy. They will tear your life apart, and that of your family, friends, and colleagues. When they find out that you had a parking ticket 10 years ago, they blow it out of proportion and use it to discredit you. Never mind that the person they are defending is a gutless sexual predator.
Does this mean that paying your kid’s GF 150K to make a couple of talks is now bad? It did not use to be bad
This is textbook case of abuse of process and should be considered vexatious litigation. Trump’s lawyers should be held in contempt for trying to taint the jury pool.