BREAKING: Jan. 6 Committee coordinated with Fani Willis in Georgia Trump prosecution: report

Fani Willis' Georgia election probe into former President Donald Trump had the help of the Jan. 6 committee in its early days.  

According to a new report from Politico, the Jan. 6 Committee staff met with staff working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in April of 2022. 

Over the course of the next several weeks the committee staff coordinated with Willis’ team, answered questions, and shared insights into Trump’s alleged criminal activity with Jan. 6 and interference in the Georgia election.   

When Willis was pressured by Congressional Republicans recently about the matter, she refused and said that the questions were in direct opposition to the “well-established principles of federalism and separation of powers" in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). 

She wrote in the letter that House Republicans were attempting to "interfere with and ultimately stop the State of Georgia's prosecution of a true bill of indictment" and that her office would not provide "access to any non-public information about" the matter.   

A former Jan. 6 committee staffer said in a statement, "As the January 6th Committee’s final report transparently stated, the Committee shared information — all of which is now public — with prosecutors conducting concurrent, independent investigations.”

Willis' office did not respond to any request for comment about the report. 

Jan. 6 committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who previously stated he didn't have "access" to footage of the Trump supporters going into the Capitol, reportedly had only described "staff-level-contacts" with Fulton County prosecutors.  

In December 2021, Willis sent word to Thompson asking for help to put together the probe into Trump and suggested she travel to Washington D.C. to “meet with investigators in person” and exchange records, a letter from Jordan sent to Willis on Dec. 5, 2023, stated. 

Willis had requested records from the committee including but "not limited to recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel" connected to the Jan. 6 investigation.   

In a court filing from the Trump team, submitted on Monday, Steven H. Sadow wrote, Willis’ “office has steadfastly refused to answer yes or no to whether former Chairman Thompson or the Select Committee” had ever sent a response.