By John Solomon and Steven Richards
Published: February 24, 2026 11:04pm
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.
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.
"Our initial review of the report confirms you all have accomplished amazing things in the past year," F. Donald Wakeford, a top deputy to Willis, wrote in a December 2022 email to Tim Heaphy, chief investigative counsel for the Democrat-run Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Just the News, alongside the nonprofit public interest law firm America First Legal (AFL), sued Willis for the records, under Georgia's Open Records Law. Willis, a longtime Trump nemesis, sought to hide many of the records with claims of legal privilege during a prolonged legal fight.
In a reaction to the lawsuit, Willis' office this week dropped all privilege claims and released all the documents without any redactions, providing to Just the News â and the public â more information than it did to congressional Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee.
"These documents reveal that the Biden Administration and the January 6 Committee were much more involved in District Attorney Fani Willisâs 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.
The documents show a cozy relationship between the Biden administration and Willis' staff, one that included 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.
There is no further explanation in the documents for that interaction, and Fulton County told Just the News and its lawyers at AFL that Wade did not keep any records of what happened at that meeting. Calls to Willis for comment were not returned by publication time.
The new memos show that the Biden White House counsel's office gave Willis' prosecution team a major gift, waiving Trump's ability to claim executive privilege and to block former administration officials from testifying.
Executive privilege is the implied authority of the U.S. president to withhold information that the executive branch possesses from Congress or the Judiciary on the grounds that a president is entitled to confidential advice before making decisions. It is a long-standing American tradition and the secrecy of presidential communications was first referenced by Chief Justice John Marshall in the landmark case Marbury v. Madison.
Ironically, President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder asserted the same privilege during investigations of the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning scheme. The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press noted that "When a president invokes executive privilege, it may be among the most difficult walls to penetrate because the number of potential leakers with access to White House documents is limited and closely monitored.â In some instances, reporting has simply been prevented from reporting on an important issue because the blockade worked.
Biden, however, believed that the âextraordinary eventsâ surrounding the âinsurrectionâ on Jan. 6 in the U.S. Capitol, warranted waiving this historical understanding of the privacy of presidential communications, the new memos show.
In a letter to Fulton County prosecutors in September 2022, Bidenâs Special Counsel, Richard Sauber, informed Willisâ deputy, Wakeford, that the White House would not invoke executive privilege for the testimony of former Trump White House officials before the Georgia grand jury.
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