Live updates: Trump in court for classified documents hearing as Fani Willis probe draws to close

Federal prosecutors told Judge Cannon there were “80-something” individuals on the government’s initial witness list but that “somewhere in the neighbourhood of 40” would be at trial.

Just 25 of those names would be redacted, according to NBC News.

Defence attorney Richard Rice alleges Fani Willis lived Robin Leach’s Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous “off the backs” of the case and taxpayers.

Pointing to cell phone records and texts in 2019 and 2021 between Ms Willis and Ms Wade, he said: “I don’t even think lovestruck teenagers text that much.”

“Teenagers have a name for those kinds of calls and I won’t get into that here,” he said in reference to the contention that Mr Wade drove to Ms Willis’s condo late at night shortly after texting her.

Ms Willis was accused of deflecting from the allegations and playing “the race card, and the God card” by attorney Craig Gillen.

In reference to her remarks at a church over Martin Luther King Day weekend, he said the Fulton County DA was “deflecting to what I call the third rail in American society: accusing somebody on the other side of being a racist. ‘So-and-so is a racist. They’re racist.’”

Mr Gillen said she was “injecting” this into the minds of potential jurors.

John Merchant, the attorney husband of Ashleigh Merchant, representing co-defendant Mike Roman, is delivering closing arguments in Atlanta.

He argues that there is still more than $9,200 unaccounted for from Fani Willis to Nathan Wade.

“We could frankly care less if they had a personal relationship outside of work. That’s not what’s at issue here,” he said.

He alleges they started dating in 2019, despite testimony and sworn statements from Willis and Wade that they started dating two years later, after he was hired, and then ended the relationship before the indictment.

“She awarded him a contract, where public money either from Fulton County or the state of Georgia ended up in his pockets,” he said. “Then he and she used that money to go on personal vacations and trips.”

Merchant also argued earlier that the bar for determining whether there’s a disqualifying “personal interest” is a “you know it when you see it” kind of thing.

“I think frankly, as I was trying to figure this out, I think you know when you see it,” he said. “I think there is good enough facts in front of you that you know when you see it. I think that governing principle helps enlighten some of the facts here.”