Despite sworn statements insisting that their romantic relationship did not start until 2022, Fani Willis and Nathan Wade are now facing serious scrutiny over phone evidence suggesting that the latter paid visits – often late at night – to the home of the Fulton County district attorney on numerous occasions dating back to 2021, as the New York Post reports.

The information, revealed in a court filing by attorneys for Donald Trump, has been offered in support of arguments that Willis must be disqualified from her role in prosecuting the former president in the 2020 election interference case she brought against him last year.

Explosive phone data revealed

Charles Mittelstadt, a private investigator engaged by lawyers for Trump, conducted an analysis of cell phone records that tracked phones belonging to Willis and Wade, and the results of his review appeared to contradict the pair's representations in court filings and on the witness stand, as the Western Journal reports.

The assessment revealed “over 2,000 voice calls and just under 12,000 text messages exchanged between the two over 11 months in 2021, with most of those communications undertaken “in the evening hours” and sometimes in the wee hours of the morning.

Most notable, however, was the bombshell disclosure that there had been “a minimum of 35 occasions when Mr. Wade's phone connected for an extended period to either one of those [cell phone] towers in closest proximity to” the location of Willis' condo at the time.

“The data reveals he is stationary and not in transit,” explained Mittelstadt, suggesting an actual in-person visit, not a coincidental tower connection while in transit.

Countering their claims

The dates of these voluminous contacts do not align with claims made by Willis and Wade that their love affair began after Wade's appointment by Willis as a special prosecutor charged with assisting in the prosecution of Trump.

Their testimony in court earlier this month attempted to counter accusations that Willis' hiring of Wade to work on the case was improper and that it provided her with financial benefits in the form of luxury vacations paid for with his allegedly inflated contract with the county.

Wade went so far as to suggest that any cell phone records suggesting that he had visited Willis' home with any great frequency during 2021 would simply be wrong, though that representation was made before the aforementioned investigatory analysis was revealed in a court filing.

Willis, for her part, accused lawyers for Trump and his co-defendants of telling lies to the court and she insisted that during the course of her affair with Wade – which she says did not commence until 2022 – she repaid him for vacation expenditures in cash.

Willis hits back-and-forth

As the New York Post reported separately, Willis responded to the cell phone data revelations on Friday, saying that they are irrelevant and “don't prove anything.”

“The records do nothing more than demonstrate that Special Prosecutor Wade's telephone was located somewhere within a densely populated multiple-mile radius where various residences, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and other businesses are located.”

However, a former friend of Willis' has also testified that the affair between the D.A and Wade began well before they claim, and presiding Judge Scott McAfee has already stated that even the appearance of impropriety may be sufficient for prosecutorial disqualifications, something which could put the future of the case in jeopardy.

In addition, Willis and Wade, if found to have committed perjury could face not just professional sanctions from the bar, but also criminal prosecution, raising the stakes considerably in an already highly contentious court battle.