For years, President Donald Trump and his allies insisted that the criminal cases brought against him were not the product of independent law enforcement — they were a coordinated political operation designed to destroy his 2024 presidential campaign and drain his resources before he could return to the White House. The political establishment and its media allies dismissed that claim as conspiracy thinking. Now, 8,000 pages of internal communications pried loose through litigation tell a very different story.
Documents obtained by Just the News and the nonprofit public interest law firm America First Legal, following extensive legal battles under Georgia's Open Records Law, reveal that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department, the Biden White House, and Democratic members of the House January 6 Select Committee as she built her ultimately failed criminal case against Trump and his allies. The revelations are stunning in their breadth and their implications for the integrity of the American legal system.
"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," said Will Scolinos, an attorney at America First Legal. "AFL was happy to represent Just the News to get Americans this new information."
Biden Waives Executive Privilege — For a State Prosecution
Perhaps the most significant revelation in the documents is the extent to which the Biden White House actively cleared the path for Willis's prosecution by waiving Donald Trump's executive privilege — not just for the congressional investigation or the federal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, but specifically for Willis's state-level grand jury proceedings in Georgia.
Executive privilege is one of the most fundamental protections afforded to a sitting or former president. It shields the confidential communications of the executive branch from disclosure to Congress or the judiciary, ensuring that a president can receive candid advice without fear that every internal deliberation will be weaponized against him. It is a protection so well-established that it was first referenced by Chief Justice John Marshall in the landmark Marbury v. Madison decision. Notably, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously asserted executive privilege to shield internal communications during congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.
Biden took the opposite approach. In a September 2022 letter to Willis's deputy, F. Donald Wakeford, Biden's Special Counsel Richard Sauber informed Fulton County prosecutors that the White House would not invoke executive privilege for the testimony of former Trump administration officials before the Georgia grand jury. The waiver applied broadly — covering events at the White House on or around January 6, Justice Department efforts to investigate alleged 2020 election fraud, and any efforts to "alter valid 2020 election results or obstruct the transfer of power."
While it was already known that Biden had waived Trump's executive privilege for the congressional inquiry and Smith's federal prosecution, the Georgia memo represents the first documented evidence that Biden extended that waiver in direct coordination with a state-level prosecution. A sitting president using one of the most powerful tools at his disposal to help a local district attorney build a criminal case against his chief political rival is an extraordinary act — one that deserves far more scrutiny than it has received.
A Cozy Relationship With the White House
The documents also shed new light on the relationship between Willis's office and the Biden White House itself. Records show that Willis's outside special prosecutor, Nathan Wade — who later admitted to a personal romantic relationship with Willis herself — billed Fulton County $2,000 for an "interview with DC/White House" on November 18, 2022, precisely as the investigation was accelerating. No further explanation for that meeting exists in the documents, and Fulton County told Just the News that Wade kept no records of what transpired there.
The lack of documentation is itself telling. A prosecutor billing his client for a White House meeting in the middle of a high-profile investigation and keeping no record of it raises serious questions that demand answers. Willis's office did not return calls for comment.
The January 6 Committee Connection
The coordination did not stop at the executive branch. The documents reveal that Willis's prosecutors were in active communication with Democratic members and staff of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack, treating the partisan congressional investigation as a resource to be mined for their criminal case.
Willis's office reached out directly to committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), requesting a meeting related to her investigation. Committee chief investigative counsel Tim Heaphy contacted Willis's deputy Michael Hill directly, offering to provide an "oral summary of what certain witnesses have told the committee in interviews and depositions" and access to committee documents at their Washington office. A team from Fulton County made the trip to the capital and met with committee staff.
Willis's deputy Wakeford wrote to Heaphy in December 2022 describing the committee's work in glowing terms: "Our initial review of the report confirms you all have accomplished amazing things in the past year." This was not an arm's-length legal proceeding. It was a collaborative effort between a local Democratic prosecutor and a Democratic-controlled congressional committee, both working toward the same political goal.
House Republicans launched an investigation into Willis's coordination with the January 6 committee in December 2023. The newly released documents show Willis made at least three requests for committee materials — in December 2021, August 2022, and March 2023 — suggesting the relationship was ongoing and deliberate throughout the investigation.
The Case Collapses
Willis was eventually removed from the Georgia case after the Georgia Court of Appeals found that her conduct — including her romantic relationship with lead prosecutor Wade — created what the court described as an "odor of mendacity" and an appearance of impropriety so severe that disqualification of her and her entire office was the only appropriate remedy.
Trump attorney Steve Sadow called the decision a vindication. "This decision puts an end to a politically motivated persecution of the next President of the United States," he said.
The indictment itself was ultimately dismissed in November 2025, shortly after Trump won his second term. The lead prosecutor who inherited the case was blunt about the futility of continuing: "There is no realistic prospect that a sitting President will be compelled to appear in Georgia to stand trial on the allegations in this indictment."
With Willis removed, the indictment dismissed, and Jack Smith's federal case similarly dropped following Trump's election victory, every single criminal case brought against the 47th president has now collapsed. What remains is a paper trail — 8,000 pages of it — documenting in extraordinary detail how the Biden White House, the Biden Justice Department, and congressional Democrats worked hand in glove with a local Democratic prosecutor to pursue a man they could not beat at the ballot box.
The American people deserve a full accounting of what happened. These documents are a critical first step toward getting it.
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02.26.2026