The icy ripple of the search spread far beyond #Georgia. #Trump has said he intends to stop Democrats from “stealing” the #election. Top #DOJ & #FBI leaders have refused to say he lost the #2020election, & have used debunked or exaggerated claims of election irregularities to justify demands for access to sensitive state voter data.
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The icy ripple of the search spread far beyond #Georgia. #Trump has said he intends to stop Democrats from “stealing” the #election. Top #DOJ & #FBI leaders have refused to say he lost the #2020election, & have used debunked or exaggerated claims of election irregularities to justify demands for access to sensitive state voter data.
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David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a nonpartisan group that advises election officials, said it was “very unlikely” the #DOJ had major new evidence, given the frequent findings of multiple investigations that found no proof of wrongdoing.
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“So if that’s not the purpose, then the purpose must be to create a false narrative around election security that’s designed to destabilize the #2026election, & what they might use that narrative to justify in terms of executive power in the states,” Becker added.
Almost nothing about the search on Wednesday was typical, or immediately explicable.
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Neither the #FBI nor the #DOJ would say what prompted them to seek the warrant. But a county official confirmed the focus was on reviewing ballots from 2020.
One of the most jarring elements was the unexplained presence of #TulsiGabbard, the director of national intelligence [ #DNI], at the scene.
Gabbard has seized on the issue of election fraud, in part to solidify her status in the West Wing after a rocky first year in office in which her stock rose, fell & rose again.
…The authority of #TulsiGabbard’s agency is limited to investigating #international interference in US #elections, so her apparent involvement puzzled local Democrats, & spurred speculation about whether she had uncovered undisclosed details of foreign activity in #Georgia elections.
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@Nonilex They're not looking at "Georgia" elections, though, are they? They should hoovered up the complete records of (the hated) Fulton County voters. Which could hardly be relevant in any investigation of foreign interference in anything.
Some US officials familiar with the intelligence expressed doubts that new concrete evidence had been discovered. But other officials said that there were indications of potential foreign influence, & that #TulsiGabbard had been given authority by the White House to engage in a far-ranging hunting expedition for voter fraud in multiple states.
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