In his portion of the closing arguments, defense attorney Richard Rice continues to talk about the speech Willis gave at the Big Bethel AME church in January, shortly after the motion to disqualify her was filed.

"She said in that church speech ... 'This leader has a trial conviction rate of 95%. The trial team this leader put together has a conviction rate of 95%,'" Rice said, clarifying that Willis was referring to herself as "this leader."

"I do not see how anyone can listen to those two statements and not take that Ms. Willis is telling everyone ... that these defendants are guilty," Rice added.

Trevian Kutti, one of Trump's co-defendants in this case, is also present in this courtroom. Kutti, a former publicist who worked for celebrities including Kanye West, is accused of having worked to intimidate Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman.

Harry MacDougal, the lawyer for Jeffrey Clark, argued that all of the prosecutors present for Nathan Wade's testimony should be disqualified as they "did nothing to correct obviously perjured testimony."

When Cannon asked the special counsel team how many potential individuals are on the government’s witness list, assistant special counsel David Harbach, after briefly consulting with counsel, replied that the initial list supplied was "80-something."

Cannon replied that she remembered 87 appearing on the proposed list. Harbach continued that their estimate for trial would be “somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,” roughly 25 of whom would be redacted. 

He added that there would be no witnesses on FOIA materials.

In his portion of the closing arguments, Craig Gillen, who is Shafer's attorney, said that rather than responding in a filing to the allegations in this motion, Willis "chose to deflect and to do two things that are reprehensible for any lawyer, but particularly for prosecutor. She chose to pull out the race card and the God card."

Willis is "deflecting to what I call the third rail in American society: accusing somebody on the other side of being a racist. 'So-and-so is a racist. They're racist,'" Gillen said.

"She was the one playing the race card in a way to try to deflect from her own conduct," he continued, citing Willis' recent remarks before a church.

"It's as though she's telling the folks in her very, very implicit way, injecting into the minds of the jurors, 'God wants me to win this case. God wants me to prosecute this case, and why are these others going after the Black man?'" Gillen added.

Trump's lawyer Steve Sadow told the judge that he didn't have to decide in this hearing that Willis and Wade lied. He said that what he had to do is "make a finding of the fact that you have genuine legitimate concerns about their credibility and their truthfulness."

Sadow then pushed the judge on the threshold for misconduct, saying that it only needed to be a "preponderance of evidence."

In his closing arguments, Merchant says Willis has received $9,200 in personal financial benefit from her relationship with Wade, but the amount of money doesn't matter as much as the fact that she did benefit financially.

"Is $50 enough? Is $100 enough? So I think it’s not necessarily the amount of the money. It’s the fact that she received it and it’s not insignificant," Merchant said.

“When you’re a public official, and you’re required to keep track of gifts that you receive, then you need to keep track of it. But there’s no paper trail, there’s no deposit history, there’s no withdrawal history, there’s no receipts, none of that,” Merchant added.

As part of his closing arguments, John Merchant defended his wife, Ashleigh, a lawyer for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman who led much of the witness questioning in this case.

"I will resist the temptation to defend my wife, who I believe to be an excellent lawyer," John Merchant told the judge, adding, "But I will say this, judge: You don’t just evaluate the credibility of the witness list. You evaluate the credibility of the lawyers."

Merchant said Adam Abbate, a lawyer for the state, "stood up here in open court ... and called her a liar."

"For the state to get up here and impugn her credibility" is inappropriate, Merchant added.

John Merchant invoked a quote from a Supreme Court decision on obscenity written by Justice Potter Stewart saying that when it comes to pornography, "I know it when I see it." He said the allegations of misconduct against Willis fit this threshold of appearance of impropriety.