![<div>MSNBC's Symone Sanders: 'A Little Sexism, Racism' Behind Fani Willis Investigation</div> <div>MSNBC's Symone Sanders: 'A Little Sexism, Racism' Behind Fani Willis Investigation</div>](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_image_50_/s3/2024-03/Image83.jpg?itok=dF1zHwCm)
The French have an expression: what had to happen, has happened.
It was inevitable that the race-and-gender cards would be played in defense of Fani Willis.
And sure enough, on the Saturday episode of MSNBC’s The Weekend that she co-anchors, Symone Sanders claimed that “If Fani Willis was a man named Frank who hired Susie, ” an investigation like the one into Willis wouldn’t have happened.
Sanders admitted to being “very animated” on the matter–which, if you view the video, you’ll see was a considerable understatement!
And just as she was about to yield the floor to other panelists, Sanders snuck in “It’s a little sexist. It’s a little racist.”
Well, he wasn’t named Frank, but has Sanders perhaps heard of Peter Gersten, the two-star general who was fired from his command position and demoted to colonel for having a sexual relationship with a female subordinate?
And then there was the heavily-covered case of David Petraeus, another male pers …