The Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney, Fani Willis, is asking the FBI for security help after Former President Donald Trump spoke out against the prosecutors investigating him.
Willis and her office are investigating Trump to determine if he and others broke the law by attempting to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
Willis wrote a letter to the FBI office in Atlanta on Sunday and asked them to provide protective resources, “to include intelligence and federal agents.” She also requested a risk assessment of the government center and the county courthouse, where he office is located.
"I am asking that you immediately conduct a risk assessment of the Fulton County Courthouse and Government Center, and that you provide protective resources to include intelligence and federal agents," Willis said in the letter, obtained by CNN. "It is imperative that these resources are in place well in advance of the convening of the Special Purpose Grand Jury."
At a rally in Conroe, Texas on Saturday night, Trump spoke out indirectly against Willis, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., who are investigating his personal business. Trump called them all "racists" despite no evidence of any racial discrimination by them.
"These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They're racists and they're very sick -- they're mentally sick," Trump said. "They're going after me without any protection of my rights from the Supreme Court or most other courts. In reality, they're not after me, they're after you."
Trump even threatened the prosecutors that there would be large protests if the "racist" prosecutors did "anything wrong or illegal."
“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt,” Trump said.
In her letter to the FBI, Willis asked for them to follow her request before a special grand jury is scheduled to be seated as part of the investigation on May 2.
“My staff and I will not be influenced or intimidated by anyone as this investigation moves forward,” Willis wrote.
Willis pointed to the U.S. Capitol attacks on Jan. 6, 2020, saying that she plans to prevent anything similar happening in Atlanta because of the investigation.
“We must work together to keep the public safe and ensure that we do not have a tragedy in Atlanta similar to what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” Willis said in the letter.
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