Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reached her limit of having her personal life picked apart on the stand in a trial that was ostensibly supposed to be about an allegation of professional misconduct, legal expert Lisa Rubin said on MSNBC Thursday — and it ultimately may have paid off for her to stand up for herself.
Willis has admitted to having a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor in her office. One of Trump's co-defendants has tried to allege that Willis and Wade have personally profited off of charging the former president.
Anchor Alicia Menendez played a clip of Willis in the hearing, saying, "I object to you getting records. You've been intrusive into people's personal lives. You're confused. You think I'm on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an elections in 2020. I'm not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial."
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"I want to talk with you, Lisa, about that legally ... what did you make of that moment?" Menendez asked.
"I thought that moment was successful for Fani Willis," said Rubin. "She harnessed the emotion and said peel back the onion and clarify why we're here. You've given the equivalent of a proctological exam on television. What you have done is ... distract from what my office was doing. We had conversations about how much cash Fani Willis kept in her home at all times, based on directions from her father and how she was raised. We could not have gotten any further afield from the allegations in her very sizable indictment. So at that moment to crystallize, wait a second, this is what we're really here, I thought was effective."
"I want to go back even further, because you have to ask yourself, if you're Fani Willis and her team, are you better off at 5:25 today than you were this morning, based on the allegations made in the papers and Judge McAfee's decision to have an evidentiary hearing?" Rubin continued. "I think the answer, mostly, based on Fani Willis' own testimony, is yes, that they are better off."
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