Dennis Byron | Reuters
Cobb County Superior Court docket Decide Henry Thompson mentioned he wanted to listen to what Nathan Wade mentioned in his deposition earlier than figuring out if Willis must be deposed within the divorce by Jocelyn Wade’s legal professionals.
“It appears to me that Mr. Wade can be the primary and finest supply of knowledge on what his earnings has been and the way he’s been spending it, and that he would have firsthand data of whether or not he’s engaged in an extramarital affair,” Thompson mentioned.
Willis is in search of to dam the deposition amid questions of whether or not she engaged in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade on the identical time he and his legislation agency had been being paid lots of of hundreds of {dollars} by Fulton County to behave as particular counsel in Trump’s legal case.
Trump is charged with racketeering and different costs associated to his efforts to undo his loss in Georgia’s 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
Thompson additionally Monday mentioned he would unseal the Wades’ divorce case, after noting that procedures for sealing the case from public view weren’t adopted.
One among Trump’s co-defendants within the legal case alleges that Willis and Nathan Wade engaged in misconduct by having “engaged in an improper, clandestine private relationship throughout the pendency of this case, which has resulted within the particular prosecutor, and, in flip, the district legal professional, profiting considerably from this prosecution on the expense of the taxpayers.”
Jocelyn Wade, in a court docket submitting, mentioned that since her husband filed for divorce he has taken a number of journeys, and “the proof is obvious that Ms. Willis was an meant journey accomplice for no less than a few of these journeys as indicated by flights he bought for her to accompany him.”
“Defendant seeks to depose Ms. Willis with a purpose to decide particulars surrounding her romantic affair with Plaintiff, as there seems to be no affordable clarification for his or her travels other than a romantic relationship,” the submitting mentioned.
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