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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is on the stand to testify about her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor in her office, which comes as part of an effort to disqualify her and her office from prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

“I’m ready to go,” Willis said before she walked toward the witness box. She was sworn in several minutes after 3 p.m.

The testimony was contentious from the outset, as the district attorney accused Ashleigh Merchant, the lawyer for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, of being “dishonest” about the claims Merchant raised during a proceeding Monday and said she has been “anxious” to testify.

“I very much want to be here, so I’m not a hostile witness,” she said.

Willis called implications made by Merchant in court filings about the origins of her relationship with Wade “highly offensive” and said her interests are “adverse to democracy.”

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