FBI executes search warrant at election office in Fulton county, Georgia

[erronis]

Source: The Guardian

Purpose and scope of warrant not immediately clear as officials scramble to understand nature and target of search

The FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton county, Georgia, election office on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the FBI's Atlanta's field office said.

The purpose and scope of the warrant were not immediately clear. "Our investigation into this matter is ongoing so there are no details that I can provide at the moment," the spokesperson said.

Fulton county officials are scrambling to understand the nature and target of the search, according to Regina Waller, a spokesperson for Fulton county. The location in south Fulton is roughly half an hour south of Atlanta.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/fbi-search-warrant-fulton-county-georgia

[durablend]

1. Still looking for those missing votes? /sarcasm

[graycampervan]

29. Missing votes

After Smith's testimony stating that trump KNEW he lost he has to make it look like in fact he really did think he won otherwise why would he still be pursuing the "truth".

[bluestarone]

2. FUCKERS!!!

EVERY state better be ready!

[SergeStorms]

5. The war is well under way.

Their strategy: fight the war on as many fronts as possible. With the entire federal government at his disposal Dementia Donny (actually, every far-right fascist talking in his ear) it will be one helluva war.

[bluestarone]

9. We need GUARDS at every state

Election center. 2026 is gonna be horrible!! Remember his words vote for me now and you'll never have to vote again.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Out of Minneapolis yesterday, but invades Atlanta today.

[SergeStorms]

7. They haven't left Minnesota.

They're still there, trampling on the rights of Minnesotans at will.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Federal Bureau of Intimidation.

Has he taken over the CIA too?

[SergeStorms]

8. Bingo.

nt.

[peppertree]

23. Madam J. Edgar Hoover would be proud

Hoover always envisioned the FBI as, in effect, an ideological police not unlike the Gestapo - one only at the service of John Birch-style Republicans, of course.

(certainly not at the service of the American people - whom he bilked of millions to feed his gambling habit, and other 'expenses')

And Kashyap is all in on the Hoover plan - his personal disdain for Hoover notwithstanding.

[Deuxcents]

6. TSF wants voter rolls and will invent any way to get them..without explanation

[Raven123]

10. Hope the warrant becomes public. Who authorized it and why?

[bluestarone]

11. What judge signed off on this?

You know Marc Elias and many more lawyers are really really smart BUT law mean NOTHING to these fuckers. We are gonna have to be ready folks.

[ScratchCat]

12. This makes no sense

Purpose and scope of warrant not immediately clear as officials scramble to understand nature and target of search

Um, the warrant would have to say what they are after, so it makes no sense for any "official" to claim they don't know the scope of the warrant. The feds have very limited scope and a warrant would have to spell out what State records they are looking for.

[Lanius]

13. How far will these various federal agencies go before someone has a backbone and says "no"?

Aside from the authoritarians who believe in Trump and what he's doing, some of these folks are obeying his orders to keep their jobs.

[D. Spaulding]

14. The MAGA acolytes are like children who need constant

attention and distractions. They invest so much of their identities and emotional validation into his brand of far right partisan politics, that the administration feels compelled to carry out these made up, pandering productions. They remind me of restless and overstimulated children with wandering attention spans.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

15. This thread should be blowing up

This is huge, this is him already trying to steal the 2026 elections, tell me I'm wrong

[orangecrush]

26. You are correct.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. They're really going to try and prosecute those who were involved in 'rigging' the 2020 election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/trump-2020-election-prosecutions-00738778

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said individuals will soon be prosecuted for their role in what he called the “rigged 2020 election,” continuing his fixation on an election he lost.

[bluestarone]

17. For one thing, i'm NOT worried at all if they find anything. MY concern is

How will the change everything to make it look like they found something!

[Bengus81]

21. Yep...like those 11,000+ votes so Trump did win Georgia

Just watch people...........

[bluestarone]

22. Yes, maybe conviently add 11,000

PLUS votes? I agree!

[Jack Valentino]

33. ..... but that STILL would not change the results of the election! so his fixation on that one state

makes no sense.... but of course, Trump rarely does make sense.

[hamsterjill]

30. Bingo!

My concern as well.

[FloridaBlues]

18. Take the voting machines ?

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. I think we have an idea of what the purpose is.

[aggiesal]

20. What Federal Law did the State of Georgia commit? ...

This looks like some sort of retribution.

[AverageOldGuy]

24. Where are the ballots?

We are talking here about the 2020 election, which Trump swears that he won. He's looking for more votes.

Federal law requires that ballots, tally tapes from voting machines, and the like be retained 22 months after the election after which they can be destroyed. 22 months from November 2020 is September 2022.

I served 12 years on the electoral board in a rural Virginia county. We were required by law to have all ballots, machine tapes, etc., at the office of the Circuit Court Clerk not later than noon the day after the election. At the precincts, after the polls closed, the Officers of Election removed all paper ballots from the voting machines, placed them in boxes, then sealed the boxes and affixed paper seals all over the boxes -- seals were signed by the Officers of Election. All these sealed boxes were listed on an inventory -- e.g. "Nov 2020 Federal Election; XXXX County, 3rd Precinct, Box 1 of 3, 763 ballots" -- the clerk's office people counted the boxes against the inventory, took the sealed boxes into their vault, and locked the vault. Requires a court order from a judge to remove or open a box.

22 months later -- Sep 2022 -- the Clerk would turn the boxes over to a shredding service that came in big trucks with truck-mounted shredders. Clerk would witness the shredding of the ballots and certify to destroying the ballots on an inventory form. And the ballots were gone -- shredded material taken to an incinerator, burned, and witnessed, forms signed.

I have no idea WTF Kash Patel and Pa Bondi think they are going to find. The goddam 2020 ballots were shredded and incinerated years ago -- sounds like a Joe Biden conspiracy to me.

[hay rick]

32. I expect this isn't about their 2020 lies, it's about preparing for 2026 and 2028 lies.

[orangecrush]

25. Starting early

With the election tampering.

[vapor2]

27. The loser just can't accept losing

[Deuxcents]

28. The courts found no evidence of wrongdoing in the 2020 election, what, 60 some times?

He would have been in court for election interference if the state attorney had been able to proceed and so now, more taxpayers money going for another round in Georgia to find fraud as he’s so sure he won that state but even if he does find more votes, he still lost the election. He LOST but he can’t get the loss out of his mind and Pam Bondi goes along..hoping to keep her job, I’m sure

[CrispyQ]

31. I'm so sick of it all. The chaos, the drama, the orange piece of shit. -nt

[Jacson6]

34. This is a dead end. The Trumpsters will find nothing.

[V850i]

35. Voter Rolls and Build up to the mid-terms?

They likely know there is nothing there. However it may be a good ploy to get voter rolls as part of discovery... and a preview of the FBI involvement in the mid-terms?

[Cirsium]

36. This can't be right

How many times have we been scolded for suggesting Trump would interfere with the elections?

"The states control the elections. Trump can't do anything to stop them."

[Rhiannon12866]

37. At this late date there is nothing to find, if he did is he planning to time travel?

And this would mean that he was not eligible to run in 2024. And that's fine with me, here's to disqualifying the felon-in-chief and get ready to redo the 2024 election with another Republican candidate!