Ex-prosecutor raises red flag over 'highly unusual' detail of Georgia election office raid
The FBI conducted what a legal analyst described as a "highly unusual" search of an election office in the Georgia county where President Donald Trump and his allies were indicted for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Fulton County commissioner Mo Ivory challenged the warrant as “incorrect legally” seeking all ballots from that election and other evidence, and the FBI then obtained a corrected warrant listing Thomas Albus, an interim U.S. attorney in Missouri, as the government attorney, and CNN's Joey Jackson listed other details about the probe that stood out as odd.
"It's rather unusual," said Jackson, a former prosecutor, "inasmuch as this has been investigated and litigated and there have been a determination, there's been determinations as to no fraud. There's been three recounts, one of them manually. There's been inspections. The Trump [Department of Justice] itself has given the indication that there's no fraud here."
"Why is that relevant to your question?" he added. "It's relevant because when you're looking at a criminal warrant, you're looking at evidence of criminality. You're looking at making a determination as to whether there was voter fraud in terms of people who voted that should not have voted or any other type of deception, and so this magistrate would have had to draw some conclusions, and the reason I say that it's somewhat interesting is because if you have this previous litigation, this is not new, this is from 2020, and you have massive investigations and you have no determination as to criminality. What are we doing here?"
Trump's DOJ had sued Fulton County last year seeking ballot stubs, signature envelopes and other evidence from the 2020 election, but that case appeared to be going nowhere before federal investigators seized that evidence themselves.
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FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general who has stated the 2020 election "absolutely stolen" from Trump, was present during the search, in addition to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Jackson was shocked to see them at the scene.
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