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Why did FBI raid Georgia election office? Trump's election deniers told them to.

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited February 10 in Off-Topic
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

Unprecedented raid elevates concern that the president will seek to interfere in this year’s midterm elections
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month, the decision was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, a search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday reveals.

The FBI’s investigation “originated” from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, an attorney who sought to overturn the 2020 election and contacted justice department officials to urge them to file a motion at the US supreme court to nullify the election. Olsen began working at the White House last year to investigate supposed election fraud.

The FBI’s witnesses in the investigation include a cadre of conservative activists who have been hounding state officials with claims of wrongdoing in Fulton county for years. Many of their claims have been investigated by state officials and debunked.

Other witnesses include two Trump-aligned members of the Georgia state election board whom Trump publicly praised as “pitbulls” at a 2024 rally. Those two members are Janice Johnston and Janelle King, who is married to Kelvin King, a current candidate for Georgia secretary of state.

The unprecedented raid has only elevated concern Donald Trump will seek to interfere in this year’s midterm elections. That worry escalated further when it emerged that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was present at the Fulton county raid. Gabbard is said to be running her own separate investigation from the one being run by the justice department.

Comment:   Hey, it worked for the Nazis... maybe if we repeat the lie often enough someone might believe it.


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  • Observant1
    edited February 11
    I find these unlawful actions despicable.
    The Trump administration is doing this so that U.S. citizens will question the veracity of the mid-term elections.
    Trump fomented an insurrection at the U.S. Capital and his lackeys
    initiated numerous court cases to overturn 2020 election results.
    The jerks failed then and they'll fail again in November!
  • CrashCrash
    Don't underestimate the stoopidity of about half of the country.
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