www.zerohedge.com By Tyler Durden
In the spring of 2022, Georgia prosecutors investigating Donald Trump over his actions related to the 2020 election received an early boost from another set of investigators… the House Jan. 6 select committee.
In mid-April of that year, Committee staff quietly met with attorneys working on the case in Fulton County for DA Fani Willis, right around the time she was preparing to convene a special grand jury investigation – during which she employed her alleged paramour, Nathan Wade, who would also coordinate with the Biden White House on their case.
So – Fani coordinated with both the J6 committee and the White House, who helped them assemble their case against the former president.
According to Politico, the Jan. 6 committee attorneys allowed the DA’s team to review (but not keep) a ‘limited set of evidence’ they had gathered.
Over the next few months, committee staff also had a series of phone calls with Willis’ team. They answered the prosecutors’ questions and shared insight on matters like Trump’s false electors gambit and his efforts to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Both of those ploys ultimately featured prominently in the criminal charges that Willis brought against Trump and his allies last summer.
The contacts between the committee and Willis’ team also helped prosecutors prepare for interviews with key witnesses.
The coordination between Willis’ team and the J6 committee were described by two former committee officials on condition of anonymity – timing which has been corroborated by new court filings in Willis’ case against Trump and 14 co-defendants for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Interestingly, the J6 committee helped Willis’ team in its early stages while simultaneously rejecting DOJ requests for material in a separate criminal probe of Trump’s actions surrounding the 2020 election – because the committee was worried that federal prosecutors might have been required to disclose the committee’s carefully curated evidence in ongoing criminal cases related to January 6th.
Willis rejected congressional GOP efforts to disclose her team’s contact with the Jan. 6 committee, calling their investigation an affront to “well-established principles of federalism and separation of powers.”
“You cannot — and will not — be provided access to any non-public information about this,” she told the House Judiciary Committee in December in a letter obtained by the outlet…
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