Dia Local officials in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin have been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith for any and all communications with then-President Donald Trump and his 2020 campaign.
The requests are the first known subpoenas issued by Smith, who was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland last month.
The subpoenas specifically seek interactions from these local authorities with Trump, as well as a list of many others who worked with or advised his campaign, according to the sources.
The subpoena, which was sent to the Milwaukee County clerk, requests conversations from June 1, 2020, through Jan. 20, 2021, the day Trump left office.
All of the states where requests were sent were targeted by Trump and his allies in their attempt to overthrow the democratic vote.
The Washington Post was first to report about the subpoenas.
Smith was chosen last month to handle a part of the criminal investigations by the Justice Department into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack and the handling of confidential information at Trump's Mar-a-Lago property.
The recent subpoenas demonstrate that prosecutors are still looking for information about the Trump campaign's contacts with local officials in crucial swing states as part of the 2020 election interference investigation. Smith is in charge of investigations that have already taken several aggressive steps toward gathering information about Trump himself.
Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson in Wisconsin said he received a subpoena on Monday and is coordinating with the county's attorney to respond as soon as possible.
"I don't see any issues with it," he said. "Many of those names aren't familiar to me, so I don't know how many of those individuals did reach out to us. For example, I don't recall receiving anything from Rudy Giuliani. I think I would have remembered that. But who knows."
Christenson stated that he hoped the records would benefit the investigation, but that he did not expect to turn up anything that had not previously been made public.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell of Wisconsin says he received a similar subpoena on December 1, asking for communications with "the gang of people you'd sort of expect."
McDonell said that the only individual on the list with whom his office had contact was Jim Troupis, Trump's Wisconsin-based attorney. Following the 2020 election, Trump requested a recount of ballots cast in Milwaukee and Dane counties, Wisconsin's two largest Democratic counties.
It is widely anticipated that Smith, a veteran prosecutor who has managed a number of high-profile cases over the course of a career spanning decades, will be charged with deciding whether to indict a former U.S. president.
