In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis promised to bring former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case to trial. She asserted that her office had complied fully with a congressional subpoena concerning a federal funding probe.
“[N]othing that you do will derail the efforts of my staff and I to bring the election interference prosecution to trial so that a jury of Fulton County citizens can determine the guilt or innocence of the defendants,” Willis said in the letter sent on the day.
ABC News obtained a copy of the subpoena, which reveals that the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee requested documents from Willis in February regarding her office’s use of government funds intended to assist at-risk youth.
Jordan told Willis’ office earlier this month that if they didn’t turn over related papers by March 28, he would think about “taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings.”
In her message back to Jordan, Willis said, “I categorically reject” the claim that her office is not following the subpoena properly.
Willis informed them that her office was sending additional information, but she doubted they would receive all the requested papers by the next day.
“That demand is unreasonable and uncustomary and would require this government office to divert resources from our primary purpose of prosecuting crime,” she stated.
In the coming weeks, Willis mentioned that her office intends to provide an additional batch of records.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis emphasized that her office is committed to upholding its duty to the people of Fulton County and will not compromise its resources or efforts to prosecute felonies in order to comply with the subpoena. She made it clear that the office will not be shutting down its ongoing work in prosecuting crimes, such as gang activities, acts of violence, and public corruption, just to meet arbitrary deadlines set by the politically motivated investigation of her office.
“My family, my staff, and I have received repeated threats from individuals who have made violent and often racist attacks,” she expressed. “However, neither these threats nor anything that you and your colleagues say or do will hinder us from fulfilling our responsibility to proceed with this case and bring it to trial.”
In August of last year, Trump and 18 other individuals entered pleas of not guilty to a comprehensive racketeering indictment. The charges stemmed from their alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Following this, four defendants opted to take plea deals, which involved testifying against their co-defendants.
