Fulton County DA Seeks Emergency Protective Order After Leaked Videos From Key Witnesses in Election Interference Case Against Former President Trump Surface

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office is seeking an emergency protective order after portions of videos from key witnesses in her election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others were leaked to two news outlets.

The footage, known as proffer, was leaked to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and includes statements from lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro and bail bondsman Scott Hall.

In the video, Ellis, a former attorney for Donald Trump, told prosecutors in Georgia that a senior White House official insisted to her that the then-president had no plans to leave office “under any circumstances” despite losing the 2020 election and multiple legal challenges to try to remain in power.

The DA’s office said in a court filing Tuesday that the release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial.

Willis’s office is now seeking an emergency protective order to prevent further disclosure of the videos. The office has not yet commented on who may have leaked the footage, but it is believed that the leak may have come from someone close to the investigation.