On Saturday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made her first public comments since a judge ruled that she could remain on Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia.

“I don’t feel my reputation needs to be reclaimed. Let’s say it for the record, I’m not embarrassed by anything I’ve done. I guess my greatest crime is that I had a relationship with a man, but that’s not something I find embarrassing in any way. And I know that I have not done anything that’s illegal,” Willis, speaking to CNN’s Rafael Romo at a community Easter Egg Hunt in College Park, Georgia, said in response to a question about reclaiming her reputation.

Later on Saturday, Trump’s lead defense counsel for the case, Steve Sadow, posted on X, formerly Twitter, in response to the district attorney’s comments, “Apparently Judge [Scott] McAfee’s warning to Willis in his disqualification order about talking about the case in a public forum is simply being ignored. Does that surprise anyone??”

In his March 15 ruling, McAfee noted Willis’ comments at an Atlanta-area church last month when she spoke out about the “weapons” facing her and her office.

McAfee wrote at the time, “The Court cannot find that this speech crossed the line to the point where the Defendants have been denied the opportunity for a fundamentally fair trial or that it requires the District Attorney’s disqualification. But it was still legally improper. Providing this type of public comment creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.”

The Context:

Willis found herself at the center of a potential ethics violation related to her alleged affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade after the accusations were brought forward by former Trump staffer and co-defendant Michael Roman. This comes amid Willis’ case against the former president, in which Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted by a Georgia grand jury in August and face criminal racketeering charges for allegedly attempting to overturn…