As courts continue to block his attempt to take control of elections through presidential decree, President Donald Trump is doubling down on turning the country’s most prominent law enforcement and intelligence agencies against U.S. elections.
Now, several recent media reports indicate the Trump administration is seeking to target local election workers while gearing up to release claims of foreign interference to bolster Trump’s effort to “nationalize” U.S. elections. And it’s using a group of loyalists and conspiracy peddlers from both inside and outside the government.
Internal documents obtained by MS NOW show that FBI Director Kash Patel is surging resources to support the bureau’s 2020 election investigation in Georgia’s Fulton County, which has long been a leading target for Trump and his allies in the election denial movement.
Months after the FBI seized 2020 election records — including ballots — through a raid on the county’s elections hub, Patel has ordered personnel from across the bureau to assist the FBI Atlanta Field Office’s election probe, which is internally being described as a “priority investigation” and “priority effort.”
Field offices from across the country are expected to assign a total of 260 FBI intelligence analysts to the Atlanta probe, according to the internal memo. The documents did not state how many FBI agents could be reassigned to the probe, but dozens are already involved. Each intelligence analyst will be expected to conduct at least...
Bathinda Member of Parliament and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab was making false claims about GST col...