'Patently false': Georgia hearing sees brutal takedown of Trump co-defendant's lawyer

Fulton County Assistant District Attorney Adam Abbate suggested that a lawyer for one of Donald Trump's co-defendants should be hit with sanctions.

At a hearing in Georgia on Thursday, Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Michael Roman, sought to have District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade dismissed from the case.

But Abbate said claims that a romantic relationship between the two affected the case were "patently false" because one of Wade's former law firm partners, Terrence Bradley, could not provide evidence to prove Willis was lying about the timing of the relationship.

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"More importantly, the representation was made to the Court that Ms. Merchant spoke to Mr. Bradley and that Mr. Bradley represented that he had first-hand knowledge from speaking to several witnesses that he would be able to impeach with the statements she represented that there was a relationship prior to Mr. Wade being appointed special prosecutor and that there was issues with cohabitation that he would be able to directly impeach those witnesses," Abbate explained to Judge Scott McAfee.

"Those are misrepresentations that are not true," he added. "They are for the purpose of harassment and undue burden to the district attorney, and we'd ask to renew our motion to quash."

Abbate then called for sanctions against Merchant.

"And the only hearing we should be having is a hearing as it relates to sanctions or the defense counsel's lack of candor that's required by not only statutory law but professional rules of responsibility and case law," he said.

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