Fani Willis' father expected to undermine Trump co-defendant's claims at Thursday hearing

An attorney for Fulton County revealed that District Attorney Fani Willis's father would testify at an upcoming evidentiary hearing.

At a Superior Court hearing on Monday, prosecutor Anna Cross said that Willis's father would be called to take the stand after the District Attorney was accused of financially benefiting from an improper relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Wade and Willis are part of a Fulton County team prosecuting former President Donald Trump and others in an election subversion case. Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for co-defendant Mike Roman, made the allegations against Wade and Willis and asked them to be disqualified from the prosecution.

Merchant also alleged that the couple "cohabitated" before Wade was hired as a special prosecutor.

But Cross said the state would call Willis' father because he lived with her at the time in question. Judge Scott McAfee agreed to have the father testify remotely from California.

"As I mentioned, we've set aside all day Thursday," McAfee said of the upcoming evidentiary hearing. "We've also set aside Friday, and we'll see if further time is required depending on where the hearing takes us."

Willis has denied any conflict of interest.