Biden’s Support for Investigation into Trump
President Biden has made a significant move to assist Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in her investigation involving Donald Trump.
In September 2022, top legal advisors from the White House agreed to waive executive privilege, allowing Willis’ team to summon former officials from the Trump administration and senior advisors to testify before a grand jury. This information comes from a letter gathered by Just the News.
Willis has attempted to present herself as impartial; however, Trump’s legal team indicated that there may have been coordination between her office and the Biden administration concerning legal documents seeking records related to any interactions. America First Legal has partnered with Just The News to obtain records for the 2024 case.
The Biden administration declined to assert executive privilege, a decision that generally protects the current president’s communications from being disclosed. This was particularly relevant to documents related to events surrounding January 6, 2021.
“President Biden believes that invoking executive privilege is not in the public interest when it involves safeguarding our nation’s orderly transition of power, especially during congressional investigations,” stated former Special Counsel Richard A. Sauber in a letter dated September 23, 2022, addressed to Chief Assistant District Attorney Willis.
He further elaborated that this decision encompasses actions within the White House around January 6, 2021, including attempts to use the Department of Justice for promoting unfounded claims about the 2020 election, as well as efforts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. The President feels that the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not conceal information that pertains to actions undermining the Constitution itself.
Willis’ office did not respond to requests for comments.
In November, a judge dismissed Willis’ lawsuit against Trump and his co-defendants, focusing on accusations of interference with Georgia’s 2020 electoral process. She was barred from the case due to allegations of “inappropriate conduct” tied to a personal relationship with Nathan Wade. Defendants claimed they benefitted financially from her role as special prosecutor.
Notably, Willis had asserted that she compensated all special prosecutors equally, yet contracts revealed by the Daily Caller News Foundation showed that Wade was paid more than the state’s leading expert on racketeering.
Wade had sought $2,000 for meetings with President Biden in 2022, which were mentioned in defense motions. In a transcript from a 2024 interview with the House Judiciary Committee, Wade claimed not to remember those meetings.
Cellphone data submitted by Trump’s attorneys indicated that Wade visited Willis’ neighborhood numerous times in 2021.
“As many have claimed from the start, Fani was colluding with the Biden White House, the Biden Justice Department, and the January 6 Committee,” said Jeff Clark, a former Trump Justice Department official and one of the defendants. He expressed on social media that new documents have surfaced supporting these claims and lamented their withholding from the GA defendants under dubious privileged grounds.
