Nathan Wade, the former special prosecutor caught up in a salacious sexual affair with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, doesn’t appear to regret his actions.

Wade, who worked with Willis on her election interference case against former President Donald Trump, told ABC News he was only sorry that his private affair with Willis became public. “I regret that that private matter became the focal point of this very important prosecution,” he said, according to the New York Post. “This is a very important case. I hate that my personal life has begun to overshadow the true issues in the case.”

Asked about the propriety of dating his boss, Wade essentially shrugged. “Workplace romances are as American as apple pie,” Wade said. “It happens to everyone. But it happened to the two of us.” He did not speak to allegations of nepotism based on evidence that Willis lied under oath when she testified that the romance did not begin until after Wade was hired.

In March Wade resigned following a judicial order stating “that the prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options.” Either “the District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office” or “Wade can withdraw” allowing the case to proceed without further distraction. While there wasn’t evidence of a conflict of interest, Judge Scott McAfee wrote at the time, “an odor of mendacity remains.” Wade ultimately chose to resign from a position where he earned about $700,000 in the span of two years.

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Wade conceded that he and Willis should have pressed pause on their relationship, which continued in the midst of the Trump trial as well as his own divorce proceedings, but that romance doesn’t always follow the rules of logic. “When you are in the middle of it, these feelings are developing and you get to a point where the feelings are so strong that you start to want to do things that really are none of the public’s concern,” he said.

The revelation of their romance continues to haunt Willis. Separate investigations by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Georgia State Senate are dogging her office’s use of funds in the Trump case, and a new commission signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp is now empowered to remove activist district attorneys from office. She has garnered a strong Republican opponent in her election as well as a lawsuit from a former Democratic lawmaker who alleged Willis failed to protect her from a stalker.

Wade’s resignation came after Judge McAfee quashed six charges in the case for all defendants, including three for President Trump, related to the pressuring of state officials to violate their oaths of office. Prosecutors previously charged Trump over a statement made to Republican Secretary of State Ben Raffensperger allegedly demanding he “find” over 11,000 votes to change the outcome of the state’s 2020 election.

In 2018, the Democratic National Committee compensated Matthew Colangelo with a substantial sum for “political consulting” services. Colangelo, who currently serves as a chief prosecutor alongside Alvin Bragg in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, delivered the opening statements in the historic criminal trial of former President Trump.

He joined Bragg’s team in December 2022 following the resignations of Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who left due to Bragg’s initial reluctance to indict Trump. Prior to joining Bragg’s office, Colangelo held a senior position in the Biden Justice Department. In April 2023, Bragg filed charges against the former president, sparking concerns among some Republicans about the potential politicization of the case.

Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News Digital revealed that in January 2018, the DNC made two payments to Colangelo, each amounting to $6,000, for a total of $12,000. The purpose was labeled as “Political Consulting.” At the time, Colangelo was the deputy attorney general for social justice under then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a role he had taken over from Alvin Bragg, who was serving as the chief deputy attorney general.

In June 2018, just months after receiving the $12,000 from the DNC, Colangelo, serving as the executive deputy attorney general, assisted Attorney General Barbara Underwood in filing a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation. The lawsuit accused Trump of misusing the foundation’s charitable assets to settle personal legal obligations. The legal pressure resulted in the dissolution of the Trump Foundation in December 2018. Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) initiated the investigation into the Justice Department’s coordination with Manhattan District Attorney Bragg over the “politicized prosecution” of Trump. Rep. Jordan sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, requesting documents related to the role of Colangelo.

Chairman Jordan criticized the involvement of Colangelo and Bragg, writing, “Popularly elected prosecutors—who campaigned for office on the promise of prosecuting President Trump—engaged in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” He accused Colangelo of being “obsessed with investigating a person rather than prosecuting a crime” due to his history of investigations against Trump during his tenure in the New York Attorney General’s Office.

In the letter, Jordan revealed concerns regarding Colangelo’s hiring by Bragg in December 2022, noting that Colangelo was brought on specifically to “jump-start” the investigation into Trump because of his “history of taking on Donald J. Trump and his family business.” He also criticized Bragg’s reliance on Michael Cohen, a convicted felon who has previously shown animosity toward Trump and pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. Jordan said that Colangelo’s leadership in this prosecution “only adds to the perception that the Biden Justice Department is politicized and weaponized.”

Republicans have expressed their concerns that Bragg’s prosecution covered federal matters previously closed by the DOJ in 2018 and that Bragg is seeking to retry an issue that had already been declined at the federal level.

According to Fox News, Colangelo remained in the New York Attorney General’s Office following Underwood’s tenure and continued his work on Trump-related lawsuits and investigations under current Attorney General Letitia James, who assumed office in 2018. On January 20, 2021, the first day of Joe Biden’s administration, Colangelo began serving as the acting associate attorney general in the Justice Department before transitioning to the role of principal deputy associate attorney general. In this capacity, he oversaw several divisions, including Civil, Civil Rights, Antitrust, and Tax.

Colangelo joined Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in December 2022. Before his tenure in New York and the Biden Justice Department, he held several positions within the Obama administration. He worked in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and served as chief of staff to then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who later became DNC chair in 2017. Colangelo was compensated for “political consulting” during Perez’s term as DNC chairman. Additionally, Colangelo served as a deputy assistant to Obama and as deputy director of the White House Economic Council.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faces a crucial legal showdown as the Georgia Court of Appeals prepares to address a case with significant implications. At the heart of the matter is Willis’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump and his 18 associates, collectively referred to as “The Fulton 19,” on charges of election interference. The defendants are poised to challenge Willis’s authority and allege conflicts of interest that they argue render her unfit to prosecute the case. This legal battle has the potential to undermine Willis’s jurisdiction and could even lead to the exoneration of the defendants.

At the core of the issue is a jurisdictional challenge brought forward by Harrison Floyd, a former Trump campaign staffer and one of the 19 defendants. Floyd’s attorney argues that the state election board has the primary jurisdiction over election-related violations, not Willis’s office. His attorney claims that Willis exceeded her authority by pursuing the indictments, and her involvement could lead to fragmented or duplicate prosecutions.

Presiding over the case, Judge Scott McAfee denied Floyd’s motion challenging Willis’s jurisdiction but approved it for immediate review by the Georgia Court of Appeals. Should the appellate court side with Floyd, Willis’s case could crumble, exposing her to civil rights lawsuits for lack of proper jurisdiction. According to Floyd’s attorney, Chris Kachouroff, if the Georgia Court of Appeals or the Georgia Supreme Court rules in Floyd’s favor, it would mean that Fani Willis indicted the defendants without proper jurisdiction. Such a decision would not only cause Willis’s entire case to collapse “like a house of cards,” but it would also strip her of legal immunity. This could expose Willis and Fulton County to multimillion-dollar civil rights lawsuits from the defendants as explained by The Federalist.

Adding to the pressure on Willis is an appeal filed by Trump and several co-defendants asserting that Willis’s romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a significant conflict of interest. Superior Court Judge McAfee previously ruled that while the relationship presented “an appearance of impropriety,” Willis could continue to prosecute the case if Wade resigned. He did so, allowing Willis to remain, yet Trump’s legal team insists that her entire office should have been disqualified from the prosecution to ensure impartiality.

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Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the case, criticized Judge McAfee’s decision, saying that it “confounds logic and is contrary to Georgia law.” He added that Willis’s continuation in the case compromises fairness, arguing that her decision-making is clouded by an appearance of impropriety, even after Wade’s resignation. The appeal seeks to remove Willis entirely, stating that her participation risks undermining public trust in the judicial process and may result in overturned verdicts.

While Willis has remained largely silent on the conflict-of-interest claims, she has been reported to have taken direct control of the sprawling case against Trump and the other defendants. She now faces an uphill battle to maintain the integrity of her prosecution as the Georgia Court of Appeals will soon determine whether she should have jurisdiction. If the appellate court finds that Willis lacks jurisdiction, the entire indictment could be nullified, potentially freeing Trump and his co-defendants from further legal entanglement and leaving Willis vulnerable to lawsuits.

With four co-defendants already having accepted plea deals, the appeal raises questions about whether their agreements could be voided if the indictment itself were deemed illegitimate. As Trump’s legal team prepares to take the matter to the Georgia Court of Appeals, the stakes have never been higher for Willis and the credibility of her case against the former president and his allies. Willis will have to muster all her resources to keep the prosecution intact amid mounting challenges that threaten to decimate her case and rewrite the narrative on one of the most contentious prosecutions in recent history.

A group of pro-Palestine protesters interrupted the commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday.

A night before, protesters interrupted the ceremony at the the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Video from the scene shows protesters wrapped in Palestinian flags while chanting “ceasefire now” as they disrupted the event. They then proceeded to hold signs decorated with the Palestinian flag as they stood in front of the stage. Others held signs accusing the University of Michigan of “supporting genocide.”

The disruptions continued at the main graduation ceremony on Saturday. This time, graduating students could be seen waving Palestinian flags as they chanted “Palestine will live forever.” Other students responded by chanting “shut the f**k up.”

Students waving Palestinian flags eventually made their way to the stage, where they interrupted the commencement speech given by Michigan law graduate  Brad Meltzer.

The latest disruption comes as dozens of colleges across the nation continue to cope with massive pro-Palestine protests. After a group of students formed an encampment at Columbia University last month, the movement spread to dozens of additional campuses across the nation.

In some cases, students have occupied buildings and barricaded themselves inside while providing their respective schools with a list of demands. While the protests have been broken up at a number of schools, they persist at several others, including the University of Virginia and George Washington University.

In many cases, in-person classes have been cancelled in favor of remote learning. Other schools, including the University of Southern California, have cancelled their commencement ceremonies entirely.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team is admitting that crucial evidence in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case was altered or manipulated after it was seized by the FBI. Smith’s team has further admitted that the court was misled for a period of time.

In a legal filing released Friday, Smith’s team quietly admitted that the order of documents in some of the boxes that were seized from Mar-A-Lago was altered or jumbled. This ultimately left two different chronologies: one that was digitally scanned and another the physical order in the boxes.

“Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants’ review of the boxes,” Smith’s team wrote.

“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” the filing continued.

In a footnote, Smith’s team quietly admitted that it had misled U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom about the problem by previously claiming that the evidence had remained in its original state after it was seized.

“The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the footnote said.

The organization of the boxes is expected to be central to Trump’s legal defense in the case. Trump’s legal team has argued that the documents were stored in the White House in chronological order on the days that Trump received them, and that his staff simply sent them to his home without accessing them or having any knowledge that they contained classified information.

In a previous disclosure, it was revealed that the federal government had shipped several pallets containing “document boxes” from the Trump Administration to the former president’s   Mar-a-Lago estate a full year before the raid.

According to an article published by The Federalist, two out of six pallets designated for movement were sent from an Arlington, Virginia facility directly to Mar-a-Lago. The move was part of a larger operation that involved transferring items necessary to wind down the Office of the Former President, as well as items that were the property of the federal government.

A driver was killed when a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex late Saturday night, police said. President Biden was vacationing in Delaware for the weekend at the time of the incident, while the Secret Service has stated that there was no threat to the White House.

The male driver, who has not been identified, was found dead inside the vehicle following the crash shortly before 10:30 p.m., according to a statement from the Secret Service. The incident is currently being investigated as a traffic crash.

The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department announced that the vehicle crashed into a security barrier at the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Police arrived on the scene at 10:46 p.m. and said one adult male was soon pronounced dead.

The Secret Service immediately activated security protocols following the crash, though the agency has confirmed that there was no threat to the White House. Both the Secret Service and D.C. Metro Police will continue to investigate.

Saturday’s incident was not the first time a vehicle has slammed into the White House perimeter in recent months. Back in January, a driver was taken into custody after a vehicle slammed into an exterior White House gate.

Like Saturday’s incident, President Biden was not at the White House at the time of the crash.

A month before that, a Delaware man was charged with driving under the influence after plowing into President Biden’s motorcade. A stunned President Biden could be seen looking onwards as Secret Service personnel swarmed the vehicle.

Google was on the receiving end of significant outrage over the weekend after the company banned a pro-Trump ad that spotlights massive cost of living increases under President Biden. The ad was eventually reinstated after thousands of users expressed outrage.

The short ad begins with a black voter answering a call from a Biden phone bank. After a woman informs him that she is with the Biden campaign, the man replies by informing her that he voted for Biden last time. He quickly informs her that “everything costs more,” including essentials such as gas, food and housing.

“Ok, but Biden is helping pay rent for newcomers to America from around the world,” the Biden campaign volunteer then follows up.

“You mean illegal immigrants?” the voter replies. “I’m struggling to pay my bills but Biden’s paying rent for illegals? They get handouts and I’m paying for it.” He then informs her that he will be voting for Trump before hanging up.

The super PAC spent more than $15,000 targeting the ad to rural voters in Macon, Georgia. After being live for several hours, NBC News reporter Andrew Arenge noticed that it had been removed due to a “privacy violation.”

It was unclear what policy had been supposedly violated, though the move instantly led to backlash from a number of prominent conservatives.

“Google has taken down this Trump ad on the pretext of violating its guidelines. The real reason of course is because it’s pretty effective,” wrote conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. “Let’s teach Google a lesson by sharing this widely!”

“Google is censoring this pro-Trump ad to protect Biden,” said Donald Trump Jr. “Let’s make it go viral.”

A day after the ad was initially removed, Make America Great Again Inc. re-uploaded it to Google. The tech giant appears to have reversed course after the backlash, as Arenge noted that all ads are running without restrictions. “All four of the ads highlighted below were flagged in my tweet from yesterday and it appears they’ve all been turned back on,” Arenge wrote in an X post followed by a screenshot of the ad’s status.

On a robust day 11 of his ongoing battle in New York, former President Trump continued to face his ongoing allegations. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged him with 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records. The charges center around a $130,000 payment made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels, managed by Trump’s former adviser, Michael Cohen.

Cohen described the payments as legal expenses, but prosecutors argue these were actually reimbursements for the payment to Daniels. They claim this arrangement facilitated other violations, including breaches of federal campaign finance limits, state election laws, and tax regulations. Throughout the trial, Trump has consistently pleaded not guilty, challenging the accusations as part of a broader politically charged narrative.

During a moment in the courtroom on Friday, Hope Hicks, former press secretary for former President Trump’s 2016 campaign and later White House communications director, became visibly emotional. The scene unfolded as Trump’s defense attorney questioned her during cross-examination about her tenure with the Trump Organization. As Hicks recounted her experiences, she appeared to get choked up and struggled to hold back tears, prompting the court to take a brief recess.

Hicks is a public relations consultant and former political advisor who is best known for her work with Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent administration. Hicks served as the White House Communications Director and had a close working relationship with the former president. She originally joined the Trump Organization in 2014 and became a part of Trump’s presidential campaign team in early 2015. Over the years, she held several roles, including press secretary and communications advisor.

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Hicks briefly left the White House in early 2018 but returned in early 2020 as a counselor to the president. She has been a central figure in several major news stories regarding her time in the Trump administration, particularly her involvement in various Congressional investigations into the administration’s activities.

“This isn’t a trial, it’s a political campaign, a witch hunt, just like the highly conflicted and biased judge, Juan Merchan, wanted it to be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning. “I’m sure his political friends and allies, and Crooked Joe Biden, in particular, will be thrilled that they are getting away with this corrupt, ‘ancient,’ and highly political attack on his 2024 presidential opponent… Virtually every legal scholar and expert call it a sham and disgrace, election interference. It is an insult to American justice!”

This week, Trump promptly addressed the $9,000 in fines imposed on him after Judge Juan Merchan ruled that he had breached a gag order multiple times. According to a source speaking to Fox News Digital, the fines were settled on Thursday via cashier’s checks in two separate payments—one for $2,000 and another for $7,000.

The gag order, established in the lead-up to the trial last month, prohibits public discussion about witnesses and family members of court officials. Judge Merchan found that Trump had not adhered to this order on nine occasions, with each instance attracting a $1,000 fine.

In detailing the sanctions, Judge Merchan warned of more severe repercussions, including possible incarceration, should Trump continue to willfully violate the order. Nevertheless, Trump’s legal team contests that the gag order infringes upon his First Amendment rights. They argue against the claims of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which alleges that Trump has breached the order more than a dozen times.

The second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money case concluded on Friday with yet another ho-hum day for the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The prosecution is gearing up for crucial testimony from Michael Cohen, the former attorney of Trump, who facilitated the $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels allegedly in exchange for her silence.

Earlier today, jury consultant Carolyn Koch offered a candid assessment of the hurdles facing Bragg in the high-profile trial of former President Trump. The heart of the prosecution’s case hinges on testimony and recordings from Cohen, specifically a tape discussing a potential deal to purchase a story about Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she had an affair with Trump.

Koch was doubtful about the impact of the audio recording on a jury, noting the tape’s incomplete nature and Cohen’s questionable reliability. “Audio is good, and audio is like a document, but jurors are going to respond to the case like a mosaic,” Koch explained. She likened the evidence to an unfinished conversation in a Jenga tower—valuable yet precarious without full context.

Jurors typically look for credible and complete evidence to piece together a narrative. Koch pointed to the inherent challenge in relying heavily on Cohen’s testimony, stating, “If there’s missing information on Cohen’s cell phone, and he’s not the most credible person… That’s a problem.”

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The conversation captured between Trump and Cohen on tape marks a significant moment in the trial, as it is the first time the jury can hear Trump directly engaging with his former lawyer. Despite this, Koch voiced her skepticism about its evidential value. “Most jurors will hold the government to its burden to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. And witnesses have to have some quality and some credibility. I think they’re going to be a little stunned that that’s a little bit lacking here,” she explained.

The trial presents a deep dive into what Koch called an “unseemly world” of politics and personal betrayals. The real challenge for Bragg and his team will be to navigate these waters with credible, concrete evidence to convince a jury—something Koch suggested may be an uphill battle given the current trajectory of the case.

Trump also targeted the “Soros-backed” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg while addressing reporters after exiting court on Friday. “Lately, this office of DA, which is letting crime, violent crime run rampant all over our city,” Trump remarked.

“What they’ve done to people in my company, they’ve been after us for years. You take a look at what’s happened, years, the Democrats, the radical left, they’ve been after us for years and they’ve destroyed people’s lives. They’ve gone out, hired lawyers, they’ve been with lawyers for years, being sucked dry. And it’s a shame. It’s a shame what they’ve done to this country and it’s a shame what they’ve done to a lot of great people that have been absolutely ruined and destroyed, not only here, all over.”

“These are vicious, vicious, radical left lunatics. The DA here is sort of Soros backed. They shouldn’t be wasting time on this,” he added. “In the meantime, you can’t do anything in the country. The country is going to hell.”

On a robust day 11 of his ongoing battle in New York, former President Trump continued to face his ongoing allegations. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged him with 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records. The charges center around a $130,000 payment made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels, managed by Trump’s former adviser, Michael Cohen.

Cohen described the payments as legal expenses, but prosecutors argue these were actually reimbursements for the payment to Daniels. They claim this arrangement facilitated other violations, including breaches of federal campaign finance limits, state election laws, and tax regulations. Throughout the trial, Trump has consistently pleaded not guilty, challenging the accusations as part of a broader politically charged narrative.

During a moment in the courtroom on Friday, Hope Hicks, former press secretary for former President Trump’s 2016 campaign and later White House communications director, became visibly emotional. The scene unfolded as Trump’s defense attorney questioned her during cross-examination about her tenure with the Trump Organization. As Hicks recounted her experiences, she appeared to get choked up and struggled to hold back tears, prompting the court to take a brief recess.

Hicks is a public relations consultant and former political advisor who is best known for her work with Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent administration. Hicks served as the White House Communications Director and had a close working relationship with the former president. She originally joined the Trump Organization in 2014 and became a part of Trump’s presidential campaign team in early 2015. Over the years, she held several roles, including press secretary and communications advisor.

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Hicks briefly left the White House in early 2018 but returned in early 2020 as a counselor to the president. She has been a central figure in several major news stories regarding her time in the Trump administration, particularly her involvement in various Congressional investigations into the administration’s activities.

“This isn’t a trial, it’s a political campaign, a witch hunt, just like the highly conflicted and biased judge, Juan Merchan, wanted it to be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning. “I’m sure his political friends and allies, and Crooked Joe Biden, in particular, will be thrilled that they are getting away with this corrupt, ‘ancient,’ and highly political attack on his 2024 presidential opponent… Virtually every legal scholar and expert call it a sham and disgrace, election interference. It is an insult to American justice!”

This week, Trump promptly addressed the $9,000 in fines imposed on him after Judge Juan Merchan ruled that he had breached a gag order multiple times. According to a source speaking to Fox News Digital, the fines were settled on Thursday via cashier’s checks in two separate payments—one for $2,000 and another for $7,000.

The gag order, established in the lead-up to the trial last month, prohibits public discussion about witnesses and family members of court officials. Judge Merchan found that Trump had not adhered to this order on nine occasions, with each instance attracting a $1,000 fine.

In detailing the sanctions, Judge Merchan warned of more severe repercussions, including possible incarceration, should Trump continue to willfully violate the order. Nevertheless, Trump’s legal team contests that the gag order infringes upon his First Amendment rights. They argue against the claims of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which alleges that Trump has breached the order more than a dozen times.