Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House Jan. 6 investigative committee as she built a failed criminal case against President Donald Trump and his allies related to their challenge to Georgia’s 2020 election results, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by Just the News.

Waiving Executive Privilege to Aid Georgia Prosecutors

The memos show that President Joe Biden’s top White House lawyer personally opened the door for Willis’ prosecutors to interview Trump administration officials by waiving claims of executive privilege, that federal prosecutors waived certain rights to allow the interviews to proceed before a state grand jury and that Willis’s team spoke glowingly of the congressional efforts to expose Trump’s involvement in the disputed election.

According to the documents, Biden’s Special Counsel, Richard Sauber, informed Willis’ deputy, F. Donald Wakeford, in a letter dated September 2022 that the White House would not invoke executive privilege for the testimony of former Trump White House officials before the Georgia grand jury.

“These events threatened not only the safety of Congress and others present at the Capitol, but also the principles of democracy enshrined in our history and our Constitution,” Sauber wrote in the letter. “In light of these unique circumstances, 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.”

Closer Ties Between Biden Administration and Willis’ Team

The documents reveal a close relationship between the Biden administration and Willis’ staff, including a meeting between her outside special prosecutor Nathan Wade and the Biden White House. Wade, who admitted to a “personal relationship” with Willis outside the office, billed Fulton County $2,000 for an “interview with DC/White House” on Nov. 18, 2022, just as Willis’ probe was accelerating, according to the new records Willis was forced to disclose.

Fulton County told Just the News and its lawyers at America First Legal that Wade did not keep any records of what happened at that meeting. Calls to Willis for comment were not returned by publication time.

Will Scolinos, an attorney at America First Legal, said the documents reveal that the Biden Administration and the January 6 Committee were much more involved in Willis’s prosecution of President Trump than was previously believed. “AFL was happy to represent Just the News to get Americans this new information,” Scolinos said.

Georgia Becomes First State to Indict Trump Over Jan. 6

Willis announced in August 2023 that she had indicted Trump and allies on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges after a more than two-years-long investigation into alleged 2020 election interference in that state. Under Willis, Georgia became the first state to do so, followed later by fellow Democrat prosecutors in Arizona and Wisconsin who also went after Trump allies.

Eighteen other people, including Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, were also indicted in Georgia, accused of aiding Trump in a bid to change the outcome of the state’s 2020 election.

The state prosecution came days after Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a similar federal indictment in Washington, D.C. Willis told a news conference at the time that Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment “refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.”

Trump’s legal team portrayed the state indictment as a “pile-on” and alleged that Willis was part of a political conspiracy to defame Trump and drain his resources as he was running again to return to the White House in 2024. Eventually, the president would prevail in getting Willis removed from the case, and the charges were dismissed.

The documents now show that Fulton County prosecutors working for Willis received significant assistance from the Biden administration beyond the waiver of executive privilege, in what could legally only be considered a boost to her targeting of Trump and allies.

According to the newly released memos, the Justice Department coordinated closely with Willis’ office before impaneling the grand jury to weigh charges against Trump. The extent of this coordination raises questions about the independence of the state-level investigation and the potential influence of federal and congressional actors in the case.