Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) finally got his hands on District Attorney of Fulton County Fani Willis’ boytoy, former Fulton County Special Prosecuting Attorney Nathan Wade, and we now know what Wade had to say about Willis’ witch hunt against former president Donald Trump.
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As RedState’s Susie Moore reported last week, Wade appeared for a closed-door deposition with investigators for the House Judiciary Committee “in a bid for information regarding Wade’s relationship with District Attorney Fani Willis and whether federal tax dollars helped bankroll it.” To say Wade was reluctant to meet with is an understatement, as the former prosecutor mysteriously went missing when officials tried to serve him a summons to appear before the investigators. Seems like perhaps Wade had some things to hide.
Jordan and his committee made public on Monday the entire transcript of the deposition.
Today we released the transcript of Nathan Wade’s deposition before the House Judiciary Committee.
Read it here: https://t.co/z19ZoOdMHO
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) October 21, 2024
Wade, who stepped down earlier this year from his role as special prosecutor after his inappropriate personal relationship with Fani Willis came to light and Judge Scott McAfee ruled that he or Willis would have to be removed from the case, was, not surprisingly, reluctant to be forthcoming with a lot of details. As our sister site Townhall reported, Willis herself tried to stop the testimony from taking place, complaining “that the proceedings could compel Wade to divulge “highly sensitive” knowledge that “still belongs” to her office.”
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Despite Willis’ interference, House Judiciary Committee investigators did manage to shake loose a few bits of information from Wade during the deposition.
For instance, he met on two occasions with White House officials, including the White House Counsel’s office, in relation to Willis’ investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the George presidential election results in 2020. The timing of things is important, which we’ll get to in just a minute.
Here’s part of a painful exchange in which Congressional investigators tried to find out more about those White House meetings:
At one point, the transcript shows Wade was asked about an invoice line indicating “travel to Athens; conf with White House counsel, May 23rd, 2022.”
“So if it says conf with White House counsel, that would mean there was a conf with White House counsel?” investigators asked, according to the transcript.
Wade responded that the semicolon written after “travel to Athens” represented a separate thought.
The investigator asked, “So if you billed for a conf with White House counsel, would that have occurred?”
Wade challenged, “If I billed for a conf with White House counsel, this document doesn’t say that that cong with White House counsel happened in Athens. That’s not what that says.”
Pressed again on whether the reference to White House counsel meant he billed for a conference with such an official, Wade said, “Yes.”
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Ah, yes, the old “semicolon” defense. It was clear at this point that getting cold, hard facts from Wade would be an arduous process. When pressed for details on his meetings with the White House, Wade used the phrases, “I can’t recall,” “I don’t recall,” or “I don’t know,” multiple times. He even claimed to have not taken any notes during these meetings.
One startling fact did emerge, although the exact details are still a bit fuzzy: Fani Willis began preparing to prosecute Trump well before she was inaugurated as D.A. on January 1, 2021. Wade knows this because she brought him into the process sometime after election day 2020 and before her inauguration, as he stated in his testimony: “I was a part of a search committee, if you will, for the then-newly elected district attorney.”
Q: If it’s helpful, DA Willis came into office on January 1st of 2021. Is that a helpful time frame?
WADE: It is. So January 1st, I was a part of the search committee for that newly elected district attorney, and we were tasked with trying to identify someone who would serve as lead counsel on the election interference investigation […] Eventually, I guess the committee turned their guns on me and started trying to convince me to accept the role…
Q: And so the search committee, you said that began when DA Willis took office on January 1, 2021. Is that correct
WADE: Yes.
Q: And was there outreach to you to be part of the search committee prior to January 1, 2021?
WADE: Absolutely.
Q: And when did that start?
WADE: Sometime after the election, but prior to her taking office.
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This is an important admission from Wade, as it points to the real motivation behind Fani Willis’ witch hunt against Donald Trump, namely that she used the matter to bolster her reputation in Democrat Party circles and to enrich her bank account. Then she brought in Nathan Wade as part of her ever-expanding, politically-motivated, taxpayer-funded boondoggle.
The whole Fani Willis charade isn’t about a wrong being made right, it’s about one woman’s lust for power and money, and the willing dupe/lover who, even now, keeps her secrets. Here’s hoping the Republicans keep control of the House so Jim Jordan can keep unpeeling this onion. There’s a lot more to discover about the dishonest duo of Willis and Wade.
