WASHINGTON — The FBI searched an election office in Georgia’s Fulton County outside Atlanta on Wednesday, pursuing U.S. President Donald Trump’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voting fraud.
The FBI said in a brief statement that its agents executed a warrant at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, a large, warehouse-like facility opened by Georgia officials in 2023, and called it a “court-authorized law enforcement activity.”
The warrant “sought a number of records related to 2020 elections,” the Fulton County government said in a brief statement.
The FBI agents were looking to seize computers and ballots they believed were held at the facility as part of an investigation into possible election interference, a law enforcement official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The search was conducted a week after Trump reiterated during comments in Davos, Switzerland, his longstanding and debunked claim that the 2020 voting “was a rigged election.”
“People will soon be prosecuted for what they did,” Trump said in Davos.
FBI Director Kash Patel was appointed to his post by Trump last year.
Joe Biden, a Democrat, won Georgia and defeated Trump, a Republican who was seeking reelection in 2020. Trump returned to the presidency for a second term last year after winning the 2024 election.
The Trump administration separately began a lawsuit last month to get hold of Fulton County’s 2020 ballots. In...
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