Nathan Wade doesn't regret much.
The former special prosecutor at the center of former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants' Georgia 2020 election subversion case only wishes the "timing" of his romance with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was different.
"Probably bad," Wade said during a lengthy sit-down interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source." "It was bad timing but you don't pick and choose when those things happen.
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"[It] happened organically and you deal with the situation as it comes."
When Collins pressed him on whether he carried any pangs of regret, Wade responded: "The only thing I regret is the timing of it."
Fulton County Superior CourtJudge Scott McAfee previously issued an ultimatum: Willis could continue prosecuting the case, but only if Wade stepped away. He resigned shortly thereafter.
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Wade's sudden decision to come forward with an interview arrived as the Georgia Court of Appeals put Willis' election subversion RICO case on ice until a panel of judges could weigh in on whether Willis should be forced to step away from the case.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has aimed to drag the legal issues until at least 2025 (after the Nov. 5 election) and make clear that her affair with Wade — where they stood accused of taking "lavish" trips on the public's dime to the Caribbean to California's wine country — are grounds for disqualification.
Willis testified she paid her own way in cash for almost every sojourn.
When Wade was pressed about the timeline of his relationship — a critical part of the hearings where he was grilled by the defendants' attorneys under oath — Wade appeared to dodge.
Not only that, but Wade's media consultant intervened as he began to answer Collins' question about when he and Willis struck up a romantic relationship.
"When did the romantic relationship between the two of you start," Collins asked him.
Wade seemed to verbally flail.
"Yeah, so ... we get into ... there has been this effort to ... say that, okay, these these exact dates are ... are at issue ... and these exact dates are — I'm getting I'm getting signaled here."
At that moment, a media consultant stepped into the frame and halted the interview. He pulled Wade aside and seemingly coached him on this particular response.
Collins tried again.
"Just to revisit the question, it was to clarify when the romantic relationship started and when it ended," she reminded him.
"I believe that the public has through the testimony and other interviews, the public has a clear snapshot that this is clearly just a distraction, it is not a relevant issue in this case," he said. "And I think that we should be focusing on more of the facts and the indictment in the case."
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