Keeping a finger on the pulse of pander, MSNBC’s Symone Sanders managed to work identity politics into the investigation of Fani Willis.
“It’s a little sexist. It’s a little racist.”
(Video: MSNBC)
The perceived political persecution of former President Donald Trump had hit a number of stumbling blocks in Fulton County, Georgia as District Attorney Fani Willis faced possible disqualification over her personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
After Willis agreed to accept Wade’s resignation to avoid having to step down entirely from the case against the president, Sanders couldn’t help but suggest it was somehow prejudice on the part of Trump’s team, not the DA’s own doing, that had brought about this result.
“And frankly,” the co-anchor of MSNBC’s “The Weekend” said to the panel, “if Fani Willis was a man named Frank, I don’t believe that they would have been able to distract us with, the salacious gossip about, oh, well Frank hired Susie, so that Frank could financially benefit from Susie being on the case.”
As her colleague Alicia Menendez, daughter of the felony indicted New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D), expressed glee that Sanders brought up the point saying, “I’m so happy, I’m so happy you raised this,” she further suggested, “It’s a little sexist. It’s a little racist.”
Leading up to the claim, the former spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris argued “You know, they tried to steal an election! The former president of the United States of America and his little friends, as my mother would say, tried to steal an election.”
“And the DA, Fani Willis, is seeking to hold them accountable,” she continued. “And because she sought that accountability, they, the former president and his little friends, allies, Ashley Merchant, the attorney for one of those individuals, they then tried to distract us with salacious gossip.”
“Because that is what this is,” added the co-anchor.
“Because if there were facts, we would have found them. And it worked so much so, that very well-meaning people are just — who know a lot, lots of smart lawyers in this country — are walking around and sitting up on television being like, well, I don’t know if Fani Willis could stay on this case,” Sanders argued. “This was a distraction.”
An effort by former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele to attempt to support Sander’s take only stood to refute it as he indicated that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) did not have something similar for Trump’s attorneys to leverage in an effort to get that case dismissed.
“They don’t have anything to hang on Alving Bragg’s head in New York,” he said as she pressed, “They didn’t have anything about Fani Willis. And I’m so animated about this. I’m sorry. I’m very animated about this because this is, we all have a duty, I think, to remind people about what this is really about.”
Encapsulating the rant, one person suggested in response, “You seriously need some new talking points.”
You seriously need some new talking points.
— Christopher Murray (@ChristophM724) March 17, 2024
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Author: Kevin Haggerty
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