Fulton County FBI Search Was Ordered By Trump’s Election-Denying Lawyer | EUROtoday

The FBI search of election places of work in Fulton County, Georgia, that led to the seizure of ballots from the 2020 election was ordered by Kurt Olsen, who beforehand helped President Donald Trump problem his loss in that election and is now working for the Trump administration.

The revelation comes from an affidavit filed by the FBI and disclosed on Tuesday. That affidavit led a choose to authorize the Jan. 28 raid on Fulton County election places of work with a view to examine whether or not election officers within the county illegally altered or tampered with the 2020 election ends in a fashion that might have value Trump the election.

On Election Day in 2020, Trump instantly claimed that fraud led to his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, a declare that has since been exhaustively disproven. Nevertheless, he mounted a nonstop public and authorized marketing campaign to overturn the outcomes. Much of this effort centered on Georgia, the place he tried to stress Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to “find 11,780 votes,” the precise quantity wanted to place Trump forward of Biden. Raffensperger didn’t oblige. No fraud was present in Georgia or every other state, and Trump ultimately pivoted to attempting to dam the certification of Biden’s win, culminating within the Jan. 6 rebellion and his second impeachment.

Now again in workplace, Trump is following by on his promise to get revenge on his enemies. This contains these individuals he imagines stole the 2020 election from him. Fulton County is his first goal, regardless of Georgia having performed a number of recounts and audits of the election and located no proof of fraud.

Olsen, a proponent of Trump’s election lies, now seems to be directing that vengeance marketing campaign from the federal authorities the place he acts because the “Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity,” in accordance with the affidavit. He is being fed any intelligence he needs from U.S. intelligence companies to show the false principle of election fraud, in accordance with Politico.

Following Trump’s 2020 election loss, Olsen made his approach into the middle of the election denial group. He suggested Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on his failed lawsuit difficult the election outcomes, teamed up with MyPillow proprietor Mike Lindell to advertise election fraud lies and in 2022 represented GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake when she challenged her personal loss on comparable false fraud claims. A courtroom sanctioned him for making “false factual statements to the Court” within the Lake lawsuit.

The affidavit exhibits how a lot the FBI’s raid of Fulton County election places of work is predicated on Trump’s debunked election fraud theories. It cites two reviews related to election denialist Kevin Moncla, who ProPublica reported was on the heart of the investigation. One report was filed as a criticism to the Georgia State Election Board in 2022 and the opposite report was printed in January by the Election Oversight Group.

Olsen can also be not the one election denier who’s working within the Trump administration and cited within the report. Clay Parikh, who served as Lake’s star witness in her election fraud case and can also be tied to Lindell, is famous within the affidavit as “a Special Government Employee, a temporary officer or employee in the U.S. Executive Branch appointed to work for up to 130 days.” Parikh has additionally acknowledged that the predictions of QAnon, the conspiracy that Trump would purge a cult of liberal pedophiles, “are dead on.” He is cited for reviewing Fulton County poll tabulator tapes and believing that they’d been compromised.