Stunning new documents show Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department, White House, and top House Democrats on the Jan. 6 committee as she built her criminal case against President Donald Trump.
The documents, finally revealed this week after a prolonged legal fight, show former President Joe Biden’s top White House lawyer personally waived executive privilege to allow Willis’ prosecutors to interview Trump administration officials.
Federal prosecutors also waived rights to allow interviews before a state grand jury, and Willis’ team praised congressional Democrats’ efforts to investigate Trump, according to records obtained by Just the News.
Biden’s Special Counsel Richard Sauber wrote in a Sept. 23, 2022 letter to Willis’ Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Donald Wakeford that the president would allow testimony of former Trump White House officials before the Georgia grand jury.
“President Biden has determined, as he did with respect to the Congressional investigation of these events, that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the public interest with respect to efforts to thwart the orderly transition of power under our Constitution,” Sauber wrote.
“This determination covers: events within the White House on or about January 6, 2021; efforts to use the Department of Justice to advance a false narrative that the 2020 election was tainted by widespread fraud; and other similar efforts to alter valid 2020 election results or obstruct the transfer of power,” he wrote.
“The President believes that the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield information that reflects efforts to subvert the Constitution itself.”
The memos show Willis’ controversial special prosecutor Nathan Wade billed Georgia taxpayers thousands of dollars for at least two meetings at the White House in 2022, just as Willis’ probe was accelerating.
Wade, who later admitted to have been in a sexual relationship with Willis, denied remembering the meetings during a transcribed interview in 2024 with the House Judiciary Committee.
The documents also reveal Willis’ office reached out to Democratic lawmakers in the Jan. 6 Select Committee for help. One outreach went directly to committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson. At least one office connected Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Michael Hill with the committee’s chief investigative counsel Tim Heaphy.
“Our initial review of the report confirms you all have accomplished amazing things in the past year,” Wakeford wrote in a December 2022 email to Heaphy.
Before impaneling the Georgia grand jury, Willis’ office approached the U.S. Attorney’s office with requests to interview several former Trump Justice Department officials, including former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and former Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel, and were directed where to get their testimony.
“While we are unable to evaluate your request at this point, we can share that, for at least some witnesses, much of the information you seek, and for which the Department would consider providing an authorization, is already publicly available,” Jay Macklin, General Counsel in the DOJ’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys wrote on May 11, 2022. “For example, Messis. Rosen, Donoghue, and Engel each participated in interviews before congressional committees, and they discussed the issues that you identified in your letter.”
The Justice Department official attached the transcripts to assist Willis’ investigation against Trump.
Just the News, alongside the nonprofit law firm America First Legal, sued Willis for the records under Georgia’s Open Records Law. Willis had sought to hide many of the records with claims of legal privilege. This week, Willis’ office gave up their legal and released all documents.
“These documents reveal that the Biden Administration and the January 6 Committee were much more involved in District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of President Trump than was previously believed. AFL was happy to represent Just the News to get Americans this new information,” said Will Scolinos, an attorney at America First Legal.
“As many of us argued from the jump, Fani was colluding with the Biden WH, the Biden DOJ, and the J6 Committee,” former Trump DOJ official Jeff Clark, who was one of the defendants, wrote Wednesday on X. “Now the documents have come out providing that to be true. They were withheld from the GA defendants on spurious privilege grounds. A disgrace.”
Willis indicted Trump and allies on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges after a more than two-years-long investigation.
The prosecution came just days after Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a similar federal indictment in Washington, D.C.
A judge officially dismissed Willis’ case against Trump and his co-defendants last November. The Georgia Court of Appeals had previously issued a decision holding Willis accountable for prosecutorial misconduct and conflict of interest during her pursuit of Trump.