Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis recoiled on the stand Thursday when she misheard a question asked by Trump attorney Steven Sadow.
Sadow was questioning Willis about the details of cash she took on an overseas trip to celebrate prosecutor Nathan Wade’s 50th birthday. Willis is accused of having an improper relationship with Wade, as well as with misappropriating funds.
“That $4,000 is part of your — my words — ‘cash hoard’ that you had collected over time?” Sadow asked.
“Cash what?!” Willis shot back, apparently thinking Sadow had used a derogatory term.
Sadow then comically misspelled the word while explaining to Willis that he didn’t say what she thought he said.
“Hoard. H-O-R-D-E,” he said, spelling the wrong homophone.
“Oh, I thought you said something different, Sir,” Willis exclaimed while rocking back in her chair.
“I wouldn’t say that under any circumstances, to you or anybody,” Sadow said defensively. “Cash hoard,” he enunciated.
“All right, back on track,” the judge chimed in.
Willis took the stand during her misconduct hearing to clear up whether she started the relationship with Wade before or after she appointed him to prosecute the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants.
Willis claimed the affair began in 2021, after she hired Wade. But a former colleague and friend of Willis gave jaw-dropping testimony earlier
Robin Yeartie, said on the stand that she had “no doubt” the relationship began in 2019, years before Willis claimed. Yeartie said she and Willis became “good friends” after they met in college in the 1990s, but had a falling out before Yeartie left the D.A.’s office.
Willis has denied allegations of misconduct.
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