WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – Around two months before Special Counsel Jack Smith allegedly charged former President Donald Trump with mishandling sensitive documents, the White House Counsel’s office met with a senior adviser to Smith and an FBI agent.
According to White House visitor records, Jay Bratt, Smith’s senior adviser, met with Caroline Seba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office, on March 31, the New York Post said. In addition to Bratt and Seba, the meeting was also attended by FBI agent Danielle Ray from the Washington, D.C., field office.
On June 8, Trump was charged in the case involving the secret documents that Smith had been designated as special counsel to handle. What was discussed at the meeting between Smith’s assistant, the White House counsel’s office, and the FBI is not revealed in the visitor records.
The meeting between Bratt, the White House, and the FBI, according to Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, “raises obvious concerns about visits to the White House after [Bratt] began his work with the special counsel.”
“There is no reason why the Justice Department should not be able to confirm whether this meeting was related to the ongoing investigation or concerns some other matter,” Turley said.
Bratt was at the White House for a “case-related interview,” a representative for the special counsel told the New York Post, and the FBI chose not to provide a comment on the matter.
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