By Jason Morris, CNN
(CNN) — A defiant Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified Wednesday before an investigative Georgia state Senate committee. The committee scrutinized her prosecution of President Donald Trump and multiple codefendants, at one point briefly cutting Willis’ microphone when she testified beyond the question she was asked.
“Let me tell you why this is such a damn joke,” Willis said at a different point while being questioned by Greg Dolazal, a Republican state senator, in the Georgia Capitol.
The investigative committee that met Wednesday, which is made up of six Republicans and three Democrats, is tasked with prosecutorial oversight across the Peach State. It will issue a final report after its investigation, but has no power to directly sanction Fulton County’s top prosecutor.
During the hearing, Dolazal questioned Willis about her hiring of Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor on Fulton County’s massive 2020 election case against Trump. Willis’ onetime romantic relationship with Wade ultimately led to her being removed from the criminal case she brought against Trump and his allies.
“Why don’t you investigate how many times my house has been swatted?” Willis forcefully told the committee during questioning Wednesday. “Why don’t you investigate how many times they’ve called me the N-word?”
Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, an attorney for Willis, told the committee that it was engaged in a “witch hunt.”
“You’re not a judge and you don’t have the power to make evidential rulings, and you don’t have the power,” Barnes told Dolezal, the committee chairman who was questioning Willis about her investigation.
“I think you are confusing facts,” Willis responded to questions about her racketeering investigation of Trump and his codefendants,.
“You all have been trying to intimidate me for five years, which is why I have not been able to live in my house for five years, because the N-word has been written on my house, thousands of threats have come to my office,” Willis testified, as she defended her actions.
“I ain’t going to quit in a month because somebody threatened me. I took an oath to do the right thing. People came into my community and committed a crime and I indicted them, and rest assured, if someone else comes in my community and commits a crime, I will indict them again,” she said.
When Barnes asked the prosecutor if she wanted to answer Dolezal’s question about whether she and Wade discussed the Trump case when he was hired, she quipped, “It’s a dumbass question.”
The committee was created to investigate Willis and Wade’s relationship
Wade was hired to be the special prosecutor to oversee Willis’ extensive racketeering indictment against Trump and numerous codefendants for their actions following the 2020 presidential election.
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