This Wednesday (28), the FBI executed a search warrant at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, in an investigation related to the 2020 election — the year in which Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden and later alleged electoral fraud.
The information was confirmed to Reuters by a police authority with knowledge of the case. Questions about the operation were forwarded to the county’s external relations department, which has not responded to date.
The Democratic-leaning county gave Biden a wide advantage in the 2020 election, helping him win the state and the presidential race. At the time, Trump tried to reverse the state’s result by pressuring authorities to “find” votes that would allow the victory to be questioned.
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Earlier this month, Trump asked a state court for $6.2 million in legal fees that he said were spent defending himself against criminal election interference charges brought by county prosecutor Fani Willis.
The accusations
Trump’s grievances in the Georgia county were compounded when he and several supporters were indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County Superior Court in 2023 on allegations that they engaged in an illegal scheme to try to overturn the 2020 election results.
The case did not come to trial, as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from prosecuting it. An independent body called the Council of Prosecuting Lawyers also decided to dismiss the charge last year, saying it would not be in the state’s interest to pursue the case.
