Nathan Wade, the star-crossed lover of Trump’s Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, has suddenly disappeared just as a U.S. House committee ordered him to appear for questioning about their torrid affair.
A spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), called it “extremely unusual” to have correspondence with a potential witness like Wade only to see him go dark. The Republican-led probe is intended to explore whether Wills, the Fulton County district attorney, abused federal dollars in search of criminal wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump. Wade left her office after a judge ruled they must resolve a conflict of interest in order to continue the case.
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“The Judiciary Committee has served over 100 subpoenas this Congress,” Dye said in a statement to the Daily Caller. “We have done so, for the most part, without controversy or the need to use the U.S. Marshals. Nathan Wade’s evasion of service is extremely unusual and will require the Committee to spend U.S. tax dollars to locate him.”
Wade’s absence is not the first disappearing act pulled on House investigators. In February, Willis was subpoenaed to appear before the committee after witnesses formerly within her office came forward alleging she redirected federal anti-gang funds to buttress her Trump investigation. She refused to accept the subpoena via email, forcing the House to pay a U.S. Marshal to hand-deliver the letter, the Caller reported. Earlier this month Willis defied two other subpoenas, one by the George State Senate and another by a lawyer for a Trump co-defendant.
Since leaving her office, Wade has been on a mea culpa tour of sorts, sitting for interviews where he denied benefiting from nepotism by Willis. The two have consistently maintained that their romantic relationship only began after he was hired for the Trump case in late 2021; however, cell phone data and a former friend of Willis have shown that the two were staying overnight in the same apartment well before Wade’s hiring. He was ultimately paid up to $700,000 over two years to help prosecute President Trump.
Willis, meanwhile, has been left picking up the pieces of a case on life support. Attorneys for President Trump are seeking to dismiss the case, alleging Willis exhibited “racial animus” during a recent public event where she accused Trump of willfully mocking her first name. Every misstep is now falling under the white-hot light of public scrutiny: after her daughter was arrested last month for driving on a suspended license, police body camera footage found Willis and Wade responding to the scene together. Asked who he was, Wade said he was a “family friend.” His appearance seemingly contradicted Wade’s past statements that the two are no longer a couple.
