The House Judiciary Committee released the transcript of Nathan Wade, the former special prosecutor in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election case.
Wade removed himself from the case due to his romantic relationship with Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
There are a few interesting things Wade told Congress.
Wade met with President Joe Biden’s administration a few times during the investigation. He took the panel that no one inside the White House ordered, pressured, or coerced him or anyone else to file charges against Trump.
However, the multiple meetings raise some questions, especially since Wade cannot remember anything about them.
In May 2022, Wade charged $250 for eight hours for a conference with White House counsel in Athens, GA.
The panel asked Wade if he met, discussed, or conferred with White House Counsel:
Q So I was asking if he remembered whether you would have had a paralegal, someone that was on your team, or an assistant reach out to schedule this conf with White House counsel?A I don’t recall.Q Okay. Do you remember who attended this conf with White House counsel?A I don’t recall.Q Is it safe to assume, since you billed for the conf with White House counsel, that you attended this conf with White House counsel?A Yes.Q Okay. Do you remember if it was in person or by telephone?A I don’t recall.
Andrew Evans, Wade’s attorney, said his client cannot “remember the specific conversations because he doesn’t have the notes.”
Wade couldn’t remember his contact in the White House counsel’s office.
Another invoice showed “Interview with D.C./White House, November 18th, 2022. Eight hours at $250. Cost $2,000.”
For some reason, Wade couldn’t remember this meeting either.
Wade cannot remember anything, it seems.
Then we have an invoice from September 2022: “Witness interview; conf call D.C.; team meeting. Date completed September 7th, 2022, to September 9th, 2022. 24 hours at 250. Cost $6,000.”
So yeah. Wade cannot remember his contact in the White House counsel office,
Willis became the DA on January 1, 2021.
Wade told Congress that Willis approached him about participating in a search committee after the November 2020 election:
Q And so the search committee, you said that began when DA Willis took office on January 1, 2021. Is that correct?A Yes.Q And was there outreach to you to be part of the search committee prior to January 1, 2021?A Absolutely.Q And when did that start?A Sometime after the election, but prior to her taking office.Q Okay. So between the election — and you’re referring to the November 2020 election. Is that correct?A Yes, ma’am.
Wade couldn’t recall how many conversations he had with Willis before she hired him as special prosecutor, but they had many:
Q And so how many conversations, if you had to quantify, do you believe you had with DA Willis specifically prior to being hired as special prosecutor?A I have no clue, ma’am.Q Was it more than five, more than ten?A I have no clue. It was a lot.Q More than one?A Absolutely.
Many conversations. Hold onto that thought because it ties into the next part.
Wade also told Congress that he had never tried an RICO case before he took charge of Trump’s case.
“I absolutely — I absolutely did,” he told the panel. “I went to what you would — what I would call RICO school to learn about what it is, what it means, and how it works. It’s a very complicated legal concept, but the dubbed godfather of RICO, the gentleman who wrote the book.”
The gentleman is John Floyd.
Wade contacted Floyd because he taught “a RICO course.” The class was meant to teach Wade “to understand the contours of the law.”
If Wade had numerous interviews about the special prosecutor job, then surely Willis and others knew he had no experience, right?
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