Who Is Jonathan Miller? Everything We Know About Leaked Georgia Tapes

Jonathan Miller, an attorney for former President Donald Trump co-defendant Misty Hampton, admitted to leaking videos showing conversations between prosecutors and other co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump earlier this year for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, which narrowly backed President Joe Biden.

Willis' investigation focused on Trump's call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the former president asked him to find enough votes to tilt the election in his favor, and efforts to submit a false-slate of pro-Trump electors to the Electoral College. Trump maintains his innocence in the case, accusing Willis of targeting him for political purposes.

Prosecutors' interviews with co-defendants, including Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, were leaked to the press this week. The leaks sparked concerns about who was responsible for releasing the discovery material and prompted Willis to request a judge to issue a new protective order over material related to the investigation.

Miller admitted to leaking the videos to the press during a court appearance Wednesday afternoon.

"In being transparent with court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so that I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I did release those videos to one outlet," he said. "I need the court to know that."

The admission came as he argued, on behalf of Hampton, that Willis' request for a protective order is "not necessary."

"This is one of the biggest cases that the country has had, and transparency is very important. Since I've been working with her for the last two years, she has always said that she wanted to be 100 percent transparent," he said, adding that he would adhere to any court order with "diligence."

He said he believes the leak will help Hampton because hiding the videos "misleads the public about what's going on." Hampton is accused of involvement in an alleged plot to unlawfully copy voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia. He has pleaded not guilty.

Newsweek reached out to Miller via his website for comment.

In one of the leaked videos, Ellis, who served as one of the former president's attorneys following the 2020 election, recounted an alleged conversation with former senior White House official Dan Scavino around December 19, 2020, when Scavino allegedly said Trump would not leave office "under any circumstances" and that he and his team was intending to "stay in power" even after losing.

Ellis told prosecutors she wanted to tell Scavino she considered the "claims and the ability to challenge the election results...essentially over" by mid-December 2020.

Update 11/15/23, 4:28 p.m. ET: This story was updated with additional information.