The father of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, retired attorney John Floyd III, took the stand on Friday as hearings continued over whether his daughter should be disqualified for having an allegedly improper relationship with her hired special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.

Floyd testified that he did not meet Wade until about one year ago and said he did not know about their romantic relationship until “about seven weeks ago” after one of former President Donald Trump‘s co-defendants made the allegations in his motions to disqualify the district attorney.

“I did not meet Nathan Wade until 2023, about a year ago, when a reporter … interviewed me,” Floyd testified. “That was the first time I met him.”

Wade and Willis have said their relationship began in early 2022, but a former Fulton County employee testified Thursday that it started before Willis selected Wade to lead the investigation into Trump in late 2021.

Floyd also testified that he moved into his daughter’s home in 2019 and said Willis had to move out after she started receiving threats and harassment at the house when she became the district attorney in January 2021.

Trump and his co-defendants are seeking to remove Willis based on allegations that she and Wade engaged in an improper romantic relationship that financially benefited her, which she denies. Willis said Thursday that she reimbursed Wade for several vacations he paid for the two to go on in cash, but Wade testified Thursday that there was not a paper trail to verify those cash payments.

Floyd corroborated Willis’s stated habit of keeping six months’ worth of cash in her home. The district attorney claimed Thursday that the money she used to pay Wade back for the trips he funded came from cash in her house rather than from any sources for which she could provide documentation.

“What I told my child from the time she was a child was always have some money,” Floyd said, adding that he told her to have “six months of cash always.”

Also on Friday, former Democratic Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes testified Friday that he was, in fact, Willis’s first choice to lead the prosecution of Trump and other defendants, not Wade, but that he declined to take on the case because he was uncomfortable with the high-profile nature of it and did not want to deal with constant security around him.

“I told DA Willis I’d lived with the bodyguards for four years, and I didn’t like it,” Barnes said. “And I wasn’t going to live with bodyguards for the rest of my life.”

The former Georgia governor also spoke highly of Willis’s qualifications to handle the case, saying she is a “very qualified young woman.”

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Meanwhile, defense attorneys called Terrence Bradley, a former law partner to Wade, to testify about Wade’s relationship with Willis later on Friday.

The hearing resumed at 1 p.m. following a break: