Former Donald Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade suggested in a new interview that he didn’t regret his affair with Fani Willis — but instead expressed remorse over the firestorm of controversy it caused.
Wade offered the comments in his first sit-down since he resigned from the Georgia election interference case in March after a judge ruled that either he or Willis — the Fulton County district attorney — had to step aside.
Asked by ABC News’ Linsey Davis if he regretted the relationship with Willis, who remains on the case, Wade gave a roundabout response.
“I regret that that private matter became the focal point of this very important prosecution,” Wade said.
“This is a very important case,” he said. “I hate that my personal life has begun to overshadow the true issues in the case.”
As for the affair itself, Wade seemed to brush off the relationship that still threatens to upend the DA’s case against the former president.
“Workplace romances are as American as apple pie,” Wade said.
“It happens to everyone. But it happened to the two of us.”
Wade resigned from the election interference case after one of Trump’s co-defendants alleged the prosecutor and the DA were having an affair before he was hired in 2021.
Wade and Willis conceded they were linked romantically, but insisted nothing started between them until 2022 after Wade was selected to prosecute the Trump case, and that things ended in 2023.
But a former DA employee, among others, said the pair were an item beginning around 2019 or 2020.
It was also alleged that Willis prolonged the case against Trump and his co-defendants so Wade could rake in more pay and take her on lavish trips.
After a hearing in March, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to substantiate a conflict of interest, but wrote in a scathing opinion that “an odor of mendacity remains.”
His ruling was that either Willis or Wade must step down from the case. Wade bowed out within hours.
Wade conceded to ABC that he and Willis could have put a stop to their feelings and held off until after their case, but that romance doesn’t always follow the rules of logic.
“When you are in the middle of it, these feelings are developing and you get to a point where the feelings are so strong that you start to want to do things that really are none of the public’s concern,” he said.
