Trump prosecutors' meetings with Biden White House raise new concerns over Fani Willis' 'lawfare'

A motion was filed Monday to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the election interference case of one of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in Georgia. The 127-page motion not only exposed Willis to a possible federal criminal investigation and threatened her case but has also prompted questions over whether the White House has been directly involved in efforts to prosecute President Joe Biden's top rival.

Willis and her alleged lover, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, apparently met with elements of the Biden White House before and after their recommendation of charges against Trump, giving greater weight to congressional lawmakers' previous concerns that the Georgia case against the Republican front-runner was "coordinated" with Democratic partisans and politically motivated from the start.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and state Attorney General Christopher Carr have been urged to investigate Willis over the various damning allegations in the motion, including the White House visits.

White House meetings

The Monday motion to disqualify Willis highlighted a number of meetings that the Democratic DA's alleged lover, Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade, apparently had with elements of the Biden White House.

An invoice sent from Wade to the Fulton County DA's office in May 2022 — ostensibly paid for by Georgia taxpayers — requested $2,000 for an eight-hour meeting on May 23 labeled "travel to Athens: Conf[erence] with White House Counsel."

Another invoice to Willis' office in January 2023 requested a payment of $2,000 for an eight-hour White House meeting on Nov. 11, 2022, three days after Trump announced his bid for re-election.

In addition to these supposed meetings with elements of the Biden White House, Wade's invoices indicated he met with elements of the Jan. 6 committee on at least four occasions in 2022 — April 18-21; on May 31; Sept. 7-9; and on Nov. 16.

Willis also brushed shoulders with those in Washington most desperate to see the Republican presidential candidate carted away.

Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project noted that Willis visited the Biden White House for roughly five hours on Feb. 28, 2023, months ahead of Trump's Georgia indictment. It appears that Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris.

A grand jury in Fulton County recommended indictments in the Trump election probe just weeks prior, on Feb. 16.

Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik asked, "Why would Wade be meeting with The White House Council? Who is directing the Fani Willis investigation? The White House, the DOJ?"

Trump suggested the "purpose of the visit was to illegally coordinate the prosecution of your favorite President, Me!"

Investigating Willis

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a complaint with Gov. Kemp and Georgia AG Carr Wednesday, requesting they order "the immediate and formal criminal investigation into the alleged criminal misconduct" by Willis, along with Wade.

Greene highlighted various troubling allegations raised in the Monday motion to disqualify Willis, including the Fulton County DA's alleged "illegal conflict of interest."

Willis hired Wade, previously a middling associate municipal court judge in Marietta, Georgia, in November 2021 without the approval of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners as required by law, according to the motion. Wade, whose compensation — exceeding $650,000 since January 2022 — Willis authorized, is alleged to have taken his boss on luxurious vacations.

The motion alleged that Willis' "apparent intentional failure to disclose her conflict of interest to Fulton County and the Court, combined with her decision to employ the special prosecutor based on her own personal interests may well be an act to defraud the public of honest services since the district attorney 'personally benefitted from an undisclosed conflict of interest.'"

Greene noted further that "Willis even used taxpayer funds to pay Nathan Wade for two trips to coordinate with President Biden's White House staff before bringing her unprecedented indictment of President Trump, Biden's chief political rival in 2024."

The congresswoman suggested in her complaint that the allegations point to an effort to "illegally politicize and weaponize her public office to wage lawfare against President Trump for the purpose of interfering in the 2024 presidential election."

NBC News indicated Willis has not responded to the underlying claims in court filings or through requests for comment.

Democratic machinations

Willis' White House visits and alleged affair are not the only interactions that have raised eyebrows in recent weeks.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, noted in a letter to Willis last month that extra to "coordinat[ing] its politically motivated prosecutions with the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith," her office "also coordinated its investigative actions with the partisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol."

"To the extent that your politically motivated prosecutions are now relying in any way on records obtained from the partisan January 6 Select Committee, it only reinforces concerns about your commitment to due process and whether you have fulfilled your obligations to properly disclosed this material," wrote Jordan.

Jan. 6 committee staff reportedly guided Willis' team in the early days of its probe into Trump, with correspondence taking place over the course of several months.

Politico indicated the Jan. 6 committee was willing to help Willis' probe "even as it rebuffed the Justice Department's requests for material in the separate federal criminal probe of Trump's election subversion" because unlike the Fulton County team, "federal prosecutors might have been required to disclose the evidence in ongoing criminal cases related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."

In his Dec. 5 letter, Jordan requested documents and communications between the Fulton County District Attorney's Office and the Jan. 6 committee.

Willis refused to comply with congressional investigator's request, claiming in a Dec. 19 letter that the request "violate well-established principles of federalism and separation of powers."

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