Judge orders Fani Willis to provide info on searches for Trump-related records: Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch on Monday announced that a Georgia judge last week ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to provide additional information in her search for records related to her prosecution of President Donald Trump.

The order was part of Judicial Watch's 2024 lawsuit that it filed after Willis denied having any records related to the watchdog's Georgia Open Records Act request for communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office and the January 6 Committee.

Willis' office later admitted that it had found some missing records during a fifth search of her office, and her office was ordered to supply over 212 pages of records and provide an affidavit detailing how the records were found.

The Judicial Watch lawsuit as well as a House Judiciary inquiry were seeking to find out the extent of cooperation between Willis' office and the highly politicized January 6 Committee, along with Jack Smith's office. But when Willis originally claimed she had no such records, it also became a question of what she was hiding and why.

The judge noted in last week's order that Willis' recent affidavit regarding her office's search for the Trump-related records did not include information on whether the devices owned by former Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade or Chief Investigator Michael Hill were searched for the records.

The Georgia judge instructed Willis to clarify whether Wade's devices were searched and to search the devices if they were not. The judge also directed Willis to provide the search protocols used on Hill's and Wade's devices.

“Fani Willis can’t be trusted," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "Every time we go back to court there are new excuses and new documents that she said never existed. And now we find that entire universes of records may have been ignored."

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