The bizarre moment unfolded after Wade revealed that he still “regularly speaks” with Willis and has told the embattled DA that the election interference case against the former president “will live on” despite his removal.
“When did the romantic relationship between the two of you start?” CNN’s “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins asked Wade before the intrusion.
“Yes, so we get into — there’s been this effort to say that, OK, these exact dates are at issue and these exact dates are,” the former special prosecutor began to respond, when he apparently noticed his handler waving off camera.
“I’m getting — I’m getting signaled here,” Wade said.
A man, identified by CNN as Wade’s “media consultant,” approached the set and requested to speak with his client off-mic.
The pair huddled together away from Collins for nearly a minute, apparently discussing how to answer the simple question.
Wade smiled as he sat back in his chair after the impromptu consultation.
“Everything OK?” Collins asked Wade.
“Yeah,” the former prosecutor responded, before dodging the question.
Wade argued — after the mid-interview huddle — that the timeline question is “a pending issue” before the Georgia Court of Appeals.
“I don’t choose to say or do anything that would jeopardize the case or the court’s ruling,” he said when pressed about the fuzzy answers he’s previously provided about when his relationship with Willis started.
Attorney Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman in the sprawling racketeering and influence case, has argued that the “improper” and “clandestine” relationship started as early as 2019.
Wade was hired by Willis to lead the investigation on Nov. 1, 2021, one day before he filed for divorce. He has testified that the tryst started “around March” 2022.
Attorney Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman in the sprawling racketeering and influence case, has argued that the “improper” and “clandestine” relationship started as early as 2019.
Willis, 52, told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee that it began “between February and April” of that year.
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Neither has provided a precise date of when the fling began.
Wade and Willis have similarly given conflicting time periods for when their romance ended.