Federal investigators were executing a search warrant at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, in connection with the 2020 vote, officials said.
FBI agents were “executing a court-authorized law enforcement action” at the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta, an FBI spokesperson said Wednesday.
An FBI source confirmed to The Independent that the bureau was undertaking “law enforcement activity” in the area, but declined to provide further details.
Trump lost Georgia in the 2020 election and made false claims about voter fraud in Fulton County to try to overturn the results. Despite his repeated claims that former President Joe Biden did not actually win the race, federal judges and his own attorney general have said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
The president and his allies have kept up their claims that something went amiss during the election. In December, the U.S. Justice Department sued Fulton County, Georgia, as well as over a dozen states, looking to receive unredacted voter registration information related to the 2020 election.
The search comes a week after President Donald Trump, while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis accused Trump and more than a dozen co-defendents of leading a “criminal enterprise” with a so-called “fake elector” scheme to falsely claim his victory in the election.
Willis charged Trump and over a dozen co-defendants, including allies Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman.
However, the case was dismissed in November following a lengthy court battle over allegations involving Nathan Wade, a former romantic partner she hired as a special prosecutor in the case.
Peter Skandalakis, the director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, assigned the case to himself. He then recommended last month that it be dismissed, which a judge agreed to.
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