'Lights out': Legal expert says Fani Willis disqualification effort is fading fast

Legal experts argue that the efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting former President Donald Trump on election racketeering charges effectively died in the water Tuesday.

This response came after Terrence Bradley, the former divorce lawyer for Nathan Wade, took the stand in an evidentiary hearing to discuss the parameters of his admitted personal relationship with Willis.

Bradley said under oath that any comments he made about when Willis and Wade's relationship began — a contentious point in the hearing — were simple "speculation."

"There it is," legal analyst Allison Gill wrote. She highlighted Bradley testified that he "never witnessed anything."

Bradley had been asked about comments made that suggested that Willis and Wade began their affair before she was even District Attorney. Trump's lawyers argue that her hiring Wade to be a special prosecutor in the case smacks of them benefiting personally from the prosecution of the former president.

The hearing in Fulton County is to decide if Willis can remain as the prosecutor in the case.

"I was speculating," Bradley said. "I didn't have...umm...no one told me. I was speculating."

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Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis said on Monday that Bradley had simply been gossiping when he previously spoke about the relationship. On Tuesday, Kreis shared that comment with the addition, "So far, my prediction about what was going to unfold in Fulton County today appears to be accurate."

Kreis ultimately argued that the disqualification effort was likely over.

"I'll wait for Steve Sadow before I say 'lights out' on the defense unearthing bombshell materials. But we're getting close to that point," Kreis wrote.