<p>House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan demanded on Tuesday that the Biden Administration disclose details about its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-counsels-office-met-with-top-aide-for-jack-smith-fbi-agent-weeks-before-trump-indictment-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> with Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office and an FBI agent two months before Smith indicted former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case.</p>
<p>&#8220;This new information raises serious concerns regarding the potential for a coordinated effort between the Department and the White House to investigate and prosecute President Biden&#8217;s political opponents,&#8221; Jordan wrote in a duplicated <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-08-29-jdj-to-zients-re-bratt-wh-meetings.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients.</p>
<p>Smith indicted Trump on June 8 in the classified documents case that the Justice Department had appointed him to oversee as special counsel. The visitor logs don&#8217;t provide details about the meeting between Smith&#8217;s aide, the White House counsel&#8217;s office, and the FBI. Trump pleaded not guilty to 40 counts relating to his handling of classified documents seized during the FBI raid of Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on August 8, 2022.</p>
<p>Smith&#8217;s top aide, Jay Bratt, met with Caroline Seba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel&#8217;s office, on March 31, according to White House visitor logs — as first reported by The New York Post. Danielle Ray, an FBI agent in the Washington, D.C., field office, also joined Bratt and Seba at the meeting.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the special counsel told the Post that Bratt was at the White House for a &#8220;case-related interview,&#8221; and the FBI declined to comment on the meeting.</p>
<p>Bratt also reportedly met with an advisor to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in September 2021 and a second time two months later with other Biden officials related to &#8220;national security,&#8221; according to Jordan&#8217;s letter.</p>
<p>Jordan requested federal authorities disclose all relevant documents on Bratt&#8217;s three known meetings or other visits to the White House or the Executive Office of the President&#8221; and those &#8220;between the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice referring or relating to the investigation and/or prosecutions of Special Counsel Jack Smith.&#8221;</p>
<p>Two months before the August FBI raid on Trump&#8217;s Florida compound, Bratt reportedly visited and interacted with the former president.</p>
<p>According to The Washington Post, Bratt then pushed for a warrant for the unannounced raid on Trump&#8217;s property. Bratt&#8217;s temper flared during the meeting when he told FBI agents they could no longer trust the former president or his lawyers.</p>
<p>Bratt allegedly also &#8220;improperly pressured&#8221; a lawyer representing a Trump employee &#8220;to induce the lawyer’s client to cooperate with the Department’s prosecution&#8221; of the former president, according to the letter.</p>
<p>The letter claims Bratt told the lawyer believed the lawyer &#8220;would do the right thing&#8221; because he wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;Trump guy&#8221; and appeared to bribe him by saying his application for a D.C. judgeship would be received more favorably if he cooperated with the prosecution.</p>
<p>&#8220;These facts reinforce the serious concern that Mr. Smith is not running an impartial and unprejudiced investigation and prosecution,&#8221; Jordan&#8217;s letter reads.</p>
<p>Smith also indicted Trump on additional felony charges for his alleged role in seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election, pointing to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as an &#8220;unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.&#8221; Smith was appointed special counsel in both the classified documents case and the 2020 election case by Attorney General Merrick Garland.</p>
<p><em>Zach Jewell contributed to this report.</em></p>

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