FBI executes search warrant at Georgia election office over 2020 US vote | Donald Trump News

FBI searches Fulton County election office in Georgia over 2020 election concerns linked to Trump-Biden contest.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has executed a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 United States election, a longtime focus of President Donald Trump’s false claims that his loss was the result of massive fraud.

The FBI said in a brief statement that the search of the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta, was a “court-authorised law enforcement activity”.

FBI agents were spotted entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, according to Fox News, which first reported the search of a new facility that state officials opened in 2023.

The Fulton County government stated that the warrant “sought a number of records related to 2020 elections”, during which Trump was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden.

The search comes as the FBI, under the leadership of Director Kash Patel, has moved quickly to pursue the political grievances of Trump, including by working with the Justice Department to investigate multiple perceived adversaries of the commander-in-chief.

Speaking before global political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Trump stated again that the 2020 contest was a “rigged election”.

“People will soon be prosecuted for what they did,” he said.

The Justice Department had no immediate comment.

Find the votes

Trump has long insisted that the 2020 election was stolen even though judges across the country and his own attorney general said they found no evidence of widespread fraud that tipped the contest in Biden’s favour.

“Federal government must step up for election integrity: Republicans must stop saying, ‘The Democrats won’t let us do it’,” Trump said in a social media post on Wednesday.

Representatives for Fulton County’s election office referred queries to the county’s external affairs office, which did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The Democratic-leaning county, home to Atlanta, backed Biden by a wide margin in the 2020 election, helping him win the state and the presidency.

Trump unsuccessfully sought to overturn the result, pressuring the state’s top election official to “find” him enough votes to claim victory.

Earlier this month, Trump asked a state court for $6.2m in legal fees, saying he spent it fighting criminal charges of election interference filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

In August 2023, Willis obtained an indictment against Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

That case was dismissed in November after courts barred Willis and her office from pursuing it because of an “appearance of impropriety” stemming from a romantic relationship she had with a prosecutor she had appointed to lead the case.