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CableZL posted...

According to Fani Willis, their marriage had been irretrievably broken since 2017 because she cheated on him with his friend, but... either way, we'll see what the judge says later this month.

And his ex-wife claims it was actually Wade doing the cheating in 2017, and that he lied to Willis about these details. Honestly wouldn't surprise me if either version is true at this point, but you're right that we won't know until the judge weighs in.

CableZL posted...

It's a huge problem. Trump is known to be a vexatious litigant and delays things by making up bullshit frivolous appeals and filings over and over.

My hope right now is that Judge Engoron fines Trump hundreds of millions of dollars and permanently bans him from the real estate business in New York and causes Trump to go broke. Trump is gonna appeal that, too, but he hasn't been successful in appealing anything in that case so far.

Yup...it's his greatest skill, sadly. I do think he's going to eventually get a legal smackdown like you describe.

I think what bothers me is that the DA and Prosecutor in Georgia really should have known that about him. They should have been smart enough to not use the taking of his case as their moment to move forward on their affair and have Wade divorce his wife...but what's done is done.

thronedfire2 posted...

so, nothing? ok.

If you think so, sure. I think that the optics are terrible at best, but clearly many people in this thread disagree, so I'm not gonna say I have the right answer here by any means.

CableZL posted...

It's not going to be complete before the election regardless. Fani Willis has previously stated that she expects the trial to last at least 5 months and her current requested trial date for all ~15 remaining defendants is August 5th. She originally wanted all 19 defendants to go to trial in October of last year after Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell filed speedy trial motions. The judge didn't want to do that because he understandably saw a 19-defendant trial as logistically impossible. There were also multiple motions to sever and waivers of speedy trial rights.

Whether all 15 remaining defendants get tried jointly or separately, they're planning to present the entire case every time even if it's 15 separate trials.

That still sounds like a problem to me, if the court dates are so close to the election. If things get pushed out it seems possible the case wouldn't even really begin until after the election, which is even worse imo.

CableZL posted...

Wade hiding income would be separate from the RICO case itself, though. I'm still waiting to hear any actual objective evidence for how their relationship would be improper as it relates to the RICO case. Jenna Ellis' attorneys in the RICO case are a married couple. There is also a romantic relationship going on between two separate defendants in the RICO case. Unless both of those are also illegal according to Georgia law (they aren't), then I don't see what the issue is.

TBH, I don't think it affects the RICO case directly, so apologies if that's what came across.

I think the more likely outcome is that if both the DA and Prosecutor get fired as a result of their tomfoolery, the RICO case would likely be impossible to complete before the 2024 election. That's the outcome I'm worried about here.

thronedfire2 posted...

ok so what does any of that have to do with the actual proceedings of the Trump case

The full allegation from Wade's ex wife would be this: Wade and Willis started having an affair at some point prior to 2021. When Willis assigned Wade the Trump case in 2021, he initiated a divorce from his wife the next day, with the goal being to separate their assets before she became entitled to his increased income as part of their marital assets, and attempted to hide his increased income during the next couple years of divorce proceedings. This while also spending a lot of money on non-work related travel, some of which was with DA Willis, the woman directly responsible for his windfall by assigning him to the Trump case.

CableZL posted...

You're trying to conflate "invented controversy" with "damage to the process." What evidence is there that "A DA and prosecutor assigned to that case used their position of power in the legal system to try to fuck over the prosecutor's ex wife?"

We'll have to see what the judge says in the hearing later this month, but Fani Willis isn't mentioned at all in the unsealed divorce documents. All this just seems like more defamation attempts like what they did to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

The ex-wife's updated motion, at the bottom of that Guardian article if what I'm referencing. Did you read it? It mentions Willis by name and describes how Wade attempted to hide his increased income from taking the Trump case. It seems like he realized he'd be getting a big windfall, and tried to hide that during his divorce proceedings. Which is illegal, and the Fox5 article linked by another user goes into that part of the process.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

You're trying very hard to draw a correlation that doesn't exist.

What correlation do you think I'm drawing? I legit don't think I'm understanding you

CableZL posted...

Trump invents controversy at every turn. It didn't matter in the 1st E. Jean Carroll sex abuse/defamation lawsuit. It didn't matter in her second lawsuit. It hasn't mattered in the NY civil fraud trial.

Trump's perceived grievances aren't reality.

Okay? Trump invents controversy at every turn, I agree. So a DA and prosecutor assigned to that case probably shouldn't be trying to use their position of power in the legal system to try to fuck over the prosecutor's ex-wife immediately after getting assigned that case, which they seem have done. There's no question that their behavior has done damage to the process here.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/unsealed-divorce-documents-do-not-mention-fulton-county-da-fani-willis

Correct, Willis is not mentioned in the original filing documents. She is mentioned in the documents filed later, by Wade's ex-wife, after she discovered Willis' involvement. Which you can read in the Guardian link I posted.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

You're trying very hard to draw a correlation that doesn't exist.

Pardon? If the case gets covered in a cloud of controversy, that benefits Trump. These two chucklefucks decided to pull this stunt as soon as they got the case, and the case is now going to be wrapped up in this divorce proceeding too.

A lot of people in here downplaying how bad this actually is. This issue arose in Wade's divorce case well before Republicans filed their own motion, and tbh the DA and prosecutor seem like absolute scumbags.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/19/fani-willis-travel-paid-nathan-wade-trump-georgia-case

Willis and Wade claim their relationship started in 2022. However, they had been working together since 2019, and Wade's ex-wife has a strong claim that Wade and Willis were having an affair during that time. On November 1st 2021, Wade was appointed by Willis to the Trump case. He then filed for divorce from his wife the next day, November 2nd, and requested the record to be sealed, and attempted to conceal his massive increase in income during those divorce proceedings. When DA Willis was called in for a deposition as the paramour in this case, she then threatened his ex-wife with a legal motion to hamper the case, claiming Wade's ex-wife was using the "the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis" (LOLOLOLOL)

This looks like two cheating scumbags using their knowledge of the law to try to cover their own asses. And Trump will walk because of it.