A whistleblower has accused former U.S. Attorney General William Barr—who served during President Donald Trump’s first term—of working directly with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to bring racketeering charges against Trump in Georgia as part of a broader effort to block his return to the White House.

According to whistleblower Patrícia Lélis, Barr joined Willis in a series of secret meetings in Washington, D.C., where legal and media strategies were developed to target Trump and his allies. Willis, a Democrat, spearheaded the 2023 indictment charging Trump and 18 co-defendants over the 2020 Georgia election dispute.

Lélis, who was employed by media personality Armstrong Williams’ public relations firm in 2021, told Project Veritas she attended “dozens” of these meetings from 2021 to 2023. She provided the outlet with boxes of handwritten notes documenting conversations between Barr, Willis, and other political figures—including CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton—about using the legal system to derail Trump’s 2024 campaign.

One meeting on September 6, 2021, reportedly focused on coordinating legal action with Congress’ January 6 investigation. Lélis’ notes quote Barr as naming high-profile Trump allies as targets, including Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Stewart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, Jeffrey Clark, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys. In the months following, many of those individuals were subpoenaed by the January 6 committee.

Photographs from March 15, 2022, allegedly show Barr entering Sinclair Broadcast Group’s offices, where Willis and federal prosecutor Jack Smith were also present. Lélis says the trio discussed Smith’s impending Florida case against Trump over classified documents, and that Barr predicted an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago would happen “soon.” Five months later, the FBI executed the raid.

By early 2023, the meetings reportedly turned toward Georgia. Lélis claims Barr advised Willis on February 27, 2023, to pursue racketeering charges: “Bill Barr was like, we should bring RICO because it’s a very difficult type of charge to defend,” she told Project Veritas, noting that Barr described RICO statutes as complicated and hard to beat in court.

The Fulton County RICO indictment has already led to several of Trump’s co-defendants pleading guilty and agreeing to testify for the prosecution. Lélis insists the goal was always political: “One thing that I understood very well is like Bill Barr and Armstrong and all the politicians too, they’re very focused like in how they go to stop Trump.”

Lélis also alleges Willis oversaw a social media operation pushing anti-Trump content to bolster the public narrative against the former president.

If accurate, these claims would confirm suspicions on the Right that elements within both parties, aided by federal prosecutors, coordinated to weaponize the justice system against the sitting Republican frontrunner—echoing tactics seen during the Russiagate hoax.