Fani Willis questions if Trump 'legally' obtained her cellphone data in her latest filing

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has filed her official response to former President Donald Trump's allegations that she and special prosecutor Nathan Wade lied on the stand about their relationship.

Trump worked with a Georgia-based private investigator to submit a filing on Friday showing that Wade visited Willis' home approximately 35 times in 2021 according to cell tower data. In an evidentiary hearing earlier this month, Both Willis and Wade testified that they did not begin dating until 2022, several months after Wade was hired onto her team in November of 2021. But Willis is now alleging in her new filing that not only do the latest allegations "not prove, in any way, the content of the communications" or that the two were in the same place at the same time, but that Trump may have broken the law in obtaining the data used to make the allegations.

"Moreover, the state questions whether Defendant Trump legally obtained cell site location information, which is generally only obtainable after a finding of probable cause and issuance of a search warrant," read the filing, which was tweeted by MSNBC host Katie Phang.

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Willis' RICO investigation of the former president has been sidetracked since attorney Ashleigh Merchant — who is representing Trump co-defendant Michael Roman — alleged that both she and Wade had an improper relationship that constituted a conflict of interest meriting disqualification. Merchant's allegations resulted in Judge Scott McAfee scheduling two days of questioning in which both Merchant and other attorneys for defendants Willis is prosecuting peppered the prosecutor with personal questions about the nature of her relationship with her colleague.

During her time on the stand, Willis accused Merchant of lying about her in various filings submitted to the court, and forcefully pushed back on the suggestion that she had supposedly misused public money when taking various trips with Wade while the two were romantically involved.

"You’re confused. You think I’m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I'm not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial," Willis said on the stand.

McAfee has scheduled another hearing for March 1, which may be the final hearing before he issues his decision on whether Willis and Wade should be disqualified from prosecuting the case.

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