Fani Willis triggered lawmakers ask about Nathan Wade’s invoices, says they should investigate threats against her instead

"I don't review those documents," Willis told lawmakers, "so you're asking me to look at documents that I haven't for the first time. What I can tell you is that I allowed Mr. Wade to bill 160 hours a week, and then Mr. Wade would be the first one in the office, making sure that my staff arrived. He corrected their behavior. They thought that 8:30 meant 8:30. He taught them that 8:30 means 7:45. He got there before them, he left after them." The response came during questioning on how much special prosecutor Nathan Wade was paid. Willis said that she had never seen the invoices displayed during the hearing.

"He taught them how to do this case," she said, "and he was a leader to that team and a public servant, and for that, him, like me, has been threatened thousands of times. You want something to investigate as a legislature, investigate how many times they've called me the N-word. Why don't you investigate that? Why don't you investigate them writing on my house? Why don't you investigate the fact that my house has been swatted. If you want something to do with your time, that makes sense, and you can use all this in your campaign ad. You attacked Fani Willis. What have you done, sir, nothing."

Willis was disqualified from the 2020 election case she brought against Donald Trump in late 2024. This came after the special prosecutor she hired for the case, Nathan Wade, removed himself from the case after a judge ruled in 2023 that either Willis or Wade needed to step down. The judge had ruled that there was an "appearance of impropriety" brought about by Willis's romantic relationship with special prosecutor.