House GOP lawmakers uncover evidence of coordination between Democrat J6 panel, Georgia prosecutor | Just The News
By: John Solomon (Just The News)
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Fani Willis would eventually charge Trump and several other defendants with felonies related to the Jan. 6 riot, charges the former president and his defenders have called politically motivated.
Two key House GOP lawmakers on Tuesday launched an investigation into possible collusion between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the Democrats' Jan. 6 committee after uncovering evidence the prosecutor pursuing criminal charges against Donald Trump asked for evidence from Congress.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight, said they had unearthed a Dec. 17, 2021, letter from Willis asking Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the January 6 Select Committee, to provide her office evidence that could assist in her prosecution of Trump and other defendants.
In a letter to Willis, Jordan and Loudermilk said they found evidence to be troubling.
"Specifically, you asked Rep. Thompson for access to 'record [sic] includ[ing] but . . . not limited to recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel.' You even offered that you and your staff were eager to travel to Washington, D.C, to 'meet with investigators in person' and to receive these records 'any time' between January 31, 2022, and February 25, 2022," the lawmakers wrote.
You can read that letter here:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-12/2023-12-05-jdj-to-willis-re-jan-6-select-committee-docs.pdf
Some of the video transcripts of Jan. 6 witnesses are now missing, according to Loudermilk.
Willis would eventually charge Trump and several other defendants with felonies related to the Jan. 6 riot, charges the former president and his defenders have called politically motivated.
The charges are primarily on alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
"The coordination between Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani Willis, and Pelosi's January 6 Select Committee, should be concerning to everyone. This new information raises questions about Willis' and Thompson's commitment to due process, and whether House Rules were violated when the Select Committee failed to properly disclose this material. We have serious concerns about this behavior and we are seeking the truth," Loudermilk said after he and Jordan released the letter.
The letter asks Willis to provide to Jordan and Loudermilk "all documents and communications between or among the Fulton County District Attorney's Office and the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol for the period July 1, 2021, to January 3, 2023."
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This is kind of funny given the amount of "evidence" that has disappeared from the J6 shit show.
And? We are talking about evidence of crimes...
The J6 shit show couldn't even find evidence of a "crime". They had to alter video to come even remotely close.
So what are they going to pass to GA? More doctored evidence?
Jim Jordan seems to be on a never ending crusade to humiliate himself on a regular basis.
In the string of nothingburgers he has produced this year, this one is near the top of the list.
Just to remind everyone, the Jan 6th committee made an official recommendation that Trump be prosecuted.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has been accused of launching an investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis based on information that has been public for a year.
The Ohio Republican Representative has written a letter to the Georgia prosecutor who indicted Donald Trump and 18 others in her 2020 election interference case. He accused her office of having "coordinated its politically motivated prosecutions" with the now-defunct House Select Committee which investigated the January 6 attack.
Jordan, a staunch ally of the former president, said Willis' office sought records from the January 6 committee as part of her investigation. Jordan said she had sent a letter to the panel's chairman, Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, seeking access to recordings, transcripts and other communications and documents obtained by the Democrat-majority panel during its probe into the 2021 Capitol riot.
Echoing rhetoric from Trump that the criminal investigations into the former president are politically motivated, Jordan requested that the Fulton County District Attorney's Office hand over all documents and communications with the January 6 Committee by December 19. Willis' office has been contacted for comment via email.
"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 disclose this material," Jordan wrote.
Jordan's letter states that the Judiciary Committee is unaware of "what records, if any," Willis' office obtained from the January 6 committee. Reporters and legal experts have noted that Willis' office obtaining information from the January 6 committee is already public record, and was mentioned in the House Select Committee's 845-page report which was released in December 2022.
"It's not unusual or improper for law enforcement to request docs from other government bodies," Anna Bower, a legal fellow and courts correspondent for Lawfare , posted on X, formerly Twitter while sharing Jordan's letter.
"It's been publicly known for a while now that Willis received some information from J6C directly. I mean, it's literally in the report. There's no gotcha here."
Bower is referring to a section in the January 6 report titled "The Committee's Concerns Regarding Possible Obstruction of its Investigation," which notes that both the Department of Justice and the Fulton County District Attorney's Office "obtained information" relevant to allegations that people tried to obstruct the panel's probe, including from the Committee directly.
Discussing Jordan's letter, Politico's senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney said : "You don't have to be a fan of Fani Willis' investigation to find it bizarre that the entire basis of this 'coordination' claim is that Willis made a routine request to the Jan. 6 committee to see their records (and we don't even know if the committee responded)."
In response, the X account of the House Judiciary Committee posted : "To say this is a 'routine' request is completely inaccurate and shows a lack of knowledge for how Congress historically works."
Reacting to the criticism, a spokesperson for Jordan's office told Newsweek that the documents and communications that the Ohio congressman is seeking from Willis' office "have not been made public."
It is unlikely that Willis' office will comply with Jordan's demands. After she brought charges against Trump and others in her election interference probe in August, Jordan wrote to Willis demanding information regarding her probe against the former president. In a September letter , Willis told Jordan there is "no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter, as you attempt to do."
Elsewhere, Thompson called out Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a subcommittee chair on the House Committee on Administration, after the Republican wrote a letter asking the former January 6 committee chairman to hand over any documents relating to Willis' request for information.
"I have received Mr. Loudermilk's letter, which, like his previous correspondence, contains significant factual errors," Thompson said in a statement.
"As I have said time and again, the Select Committee archived its official records in accordance with House rules. Only the Committee on House Administration is in possession of these records and Mr. Loudermilk is fully aware of this."
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