According to transcripts of Congressional testimony given by Nathan Wade — the former Fulton County Special Prosecutor appointed by District Attorney Fani Willis — he had multiple meetings with the Biden White House during the time period he was attempting to prosecute President Trump in relation to the 2020 presidential election.
President Trump has consistently maintained that there was collusion between the Fulton County District Attorney’s office and the Biden White House.
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Nathan Wade admitted to multiple White House meetings during Trump Georgia probe, transcript suggests https://t.co/V1bpAayVe5
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According to a Fox News report, the transcripts detail interviews given by Wade during a House Judiciary Committee probe, led by Jim Jordan. President Trump was indicted along with others on charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade met with Biden administration staff on at least two occasions during District Attorney Fani Willis’ probe into former President Donald Trump, a newly released transcript suggests.
Wade did not disclose the details of his supposed meetings with White House representatives, including if they were in-person or remote, but he acknowledged the existence of invoices and other records that indicated discussions occurred.
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.”
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.”
Wade later said he did not recall details of the meeting denoted by a record reading, “Interview with D.C./White House, November 18th, 2022. Eight hours at $250. Cost $2,000,” according to the transcript.
Details he did not recall included participants in the meeting, any possible travel, or who was involved in scheduling it.
But when asked, “And if you billed for it, if you billed 8 hours for interview with D.C./White House, it’s safe to assume that you would have taken part in the interview?,” Wade replied, “Yes ma’am.”
Though Wade did not disclose whether the meetings related specifically to President Trump, it is highly unlikely in my opinion that such meetings would take place between the “White House Counsel” and a Prosecutor in a State District Court, with such a high profile case going on, unless that was the primary reason for the meeting.
Below are the transcripts relating to that occurrence in particular, including the line of questioning from the Committee staff leading up to his admission in taking part in White House meetings.
Wade was essentially forced off the case, according to a New York Post story, in March of this year because an affair with the District Attorney who had full and sole authority for his hiring was disclosed, along with questions about his lack of experience prosecuting racketeering cases.
Former Donald Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade admitted to lawmakers last week that he had to take a class on racketeering law before he signed on to lead the Georgia election fraud case against the former president.
Wade — who was forced off the case in March because of an affair with his boss, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — said under questioning from the House Judiciary Committee on Oct. 15 that he’d never worked in a DA’s office before and had never worked on a racketeering case, according to a transcript made public Monday.
“I went to … what I would call ‘RICO school’ to learn about what it is, what it means, and how it works,” Wade said during the deposition. “It’s a very complicated legal concept, but the dubbed ‘Godfather of RICO,’ the gentleman who wrote the book … spent hours and hours teaching me RICO, if you will.”
“He was teaching a RICO course and I went to the course,” Wade explained further.
The federal RICO — or Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations — Act was put in place in 1970 and later adopted by certain states, like Georgia, for the purpose of prosecuting organized crime.
When Wade was asked if he did anything else to prepare for his new position apart from taking the RICO course, he responded: “I don’t know that there’s anything greater than sitting at the foot of the person who has written the book on the legal concept.”
Willis, 52, has been accused by Trump and his co-defendants of misconduct in appointing Wade to the case despite both his lack of experience and the conflict of interest caused by their romance.
Wade was also questioned during the interviews with the House Committee about whether he had knowledge of meetings between District Attorney Fani Willis and “individuals associated with the Biden White House”. According to the same New York Post article reference above, Wade answered that he did not know.
“To your knowledge, did District Attorney Willis ever meet or communicate with individuals associated with the Biden White House?” a Judiciary staff member queried toward the end of the deposition.
“I have no clue what she did,” Wade said.
This is part of a larger developing story. We will bring you updates as they become available.
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