MSNBC Legal Analyst Lets The Mask Slip: ‘Convicting Trump In This Case Is Everything’

Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney who now works as a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC, called on Fani Willis to recuse herself because “convicting Trump in this case is everything.”

White was speaking in reference to far-left federal prosecutor and fellow legal analyst Andrew Weissman, who called on Fani Willis to step aside after Judge Scott McAffee’s decision in the disqualification case. While McAffee did not disqualify Willis outright, he conceded that she acted improperly and ruled that Nathan Wade must resign from the case if it is to proceed, which he did Friday afternoon.

“I think this is something that we’re, you know, this is going to linger. We’re going to hear more of this because this is what defense lawyers are charged with doing,” Weissmann said. “And so even if there is a choice that Bonnie Willis makes to have Wade step down and she remains, I think she is still going to be a lightning rod and a liability as this case goes forward,” he continued, adding that somebody else in her office could oversee the case if Willis steps aside.

Left-leaning legal analysts and rabid anti-Trump partisans later debated the merits of Weissmann’s argument on X, including Joyce Vance, who agreed with her NBC colleague.

“No one likes how Fani Willis was treated,” the Obama appointee said. “It’s reprehensible. But a prosecutor’s duty is to do what’s best for the case, not for themself. Sometimes, that means being the only adult in the room even when it’s not fair.”

“Convicting Trump in this case is everything.”

No one likes how Fani Willis was treated. It's reprehensible. But a prosecutor's duty is to do what's best for the case, not for themself. Sometimes, that means being the only adult in the room even when it's not fair. Convicting Trump in this case is everything.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 16, 2024

While both Willis and Wade have claimed that the affair between them began when Wade was hired to work on the case in 2022, a former office employee testified that the relationship began as far back as 2021. Wade was also paid $700,000 in government funds to work on the case, more than other co-counsels.

In addition, Willis could not produce receipts for a number of lavish trips taken by the couple, telling the court that she paid in cash.

Cobb County Chief Deputy District Attorney Cindi Lee Yeager has offered to enter additional bombshell testimony if McAffee re-opens the case for evidence. Yeager told defense attorneys that she had multiple meetings with Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner, between August 2023 and January 2024. Bradley told Yeager that Wade and Willis first met in 2019, adding that the romantic relationship between the two began around that time.