Fate of Fulton County DA's role in Trump case uncertain after testimony concludes

“It’s a Black thing,” Floyd testified Friday. “Most Black folks, they hide cash or they keep cash.”

“As a matter of fact, I gave my daughter her first cash box,” Floyd added.

Floyd also backed up the prosecutors’ timeline about their relationship. He said he didn’t meet Wade until 2023 and never saw him at the home he shared with Willis. In fact, he said he got to know another boyfriend Willis had in 2019, a government worker-slash disc jockey nicknamed “Deuce.”

Willis’ account of her hiring of Wade also got a boost Friday from former Gov. Roy Barnes, a prominent attorney and Democrat who’s close with Wade.

On Friday Barnes confirmed that Willis asked him to lead the Trump investigation in October 2021. Barnes turned down the job, saying he wanted to “make money” and expressing concerns about possible threats that could come with leading such a high-profile case.

“I’d lived with body guards for four years and I didn’t like it,” he said, referring to his time as governor. “I wasn’t going to live with body guards for the rest of my life.”

Barnes’ testimony was designed to undercut the idea that Willis had wanted to hire Wade because of their relationship.

Attorneys spent much of Friday afternoon arguing about what Bradley could be questioned about under attorney-client privilege given his previous role as Wade’s attorney. And Bradley did not appear pleased to be there, asking a series of clarifying questions and often replying that he did not recall.

Defense attorneys spent an extended period trying to tease out additional information about a response he gave to Merchant. After Merchant sent Bradley her original court filing making the accusations formally, Bradley responded “sounds good.” Bradley said repeatedly he couldn’t expand on the matter because his response was informed by communications he had with Wade when he was a client, which he couldn’t share because of attorney-client privilege.

Earlier in the afternoon, Bradley testified that he left his law firm with Wade because of a reason that fell under attorney-client privilege. But his story changed while under cross-examination from special prosecutor Anna Cross, when he acknowledged departing the firm after being accused of sexual assault by a coworker.

“He lied,” Cross said.

Bradley insisted he didn’t assault anyone. Still, the development prompted McAfee to state that he had questions about Bradley’s credibility and interpretations of the law.

“Now I’m left wondering if Mr. Bradley has been properly interpreting privilege this entire time,” the judge said.

McAfee said he would hold a private review of confidential material and then make a determination about whether any additional evidence could be considered.

After Bradley acknowledged the sexual assault allegation — as well as money paid the accuser he head left in an escrow account — prosecutors attempted to call as a witness a onetime client of his law firm they said he assaulted. (Bradley earlier said he did not recall that person.) They also briefly questioned a former coworker who was about to describe a night out with Bradley in which he witnessed him assault a co-worker but McAfee shut down questioning for each, saying they were inadmissible because the issue was collateral.

(Staff writers Rosie Manins and Alexis Stevens contributed to this article.)