Ex-Trump Prosecutor Nathan Wade Tells MSNBC He Received Threats Every Day: ‘My Children Couldn’t Come to Visit Me’

Former Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade told MSNBC on Wednesday he received death threats every day after joining the prosecution against former President Donald Trump.

Trump is being charged in Georgia over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election result in the state.

During an interview with Wade on The ReidOut, MSNBC host Joy Reid played a clip of former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes testifying that he had turned down the job of special counsel in the prosecution of Trump because he didn’t want to “live with bodyguards” for the rest of his life.

Asked for his thoughts on Barnes’ remarks, Wade said:

I recall that interview period with Governor Barnes vividly and his reasons for refusing to take that job were in fact the salary was a bit low, but more importantly, the threats that he knew that he would have to deal with. Had I known the extent of passion from both sides, I don’t know that I– I think that I would have prepared a lot better. Having to live with, as he stated, bodyguards.

After Reid pressed, “Is that your reality? You had to get bodyguards? Did you get death threats?” Wade replied, “That is exactly my reality. You know, the severity of the threats that I still get, having to empty my voicemail three or four times a day, having to have security with me at my office.”

Wade – who resigned from the case in March after admitting to having a workplace romance with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – told Reid that his former college fraternity brothers had even offered to “send armed guards to protect me just so that I could get some sleep,” before adding, “These people were doing things unimaginable.”

He concluded, “My children couldn’t come to visit me because of the danger that they would face. But those threats are real.”

Watch above via MSNBC.