More information emerged Wednesday about why President Donald Trump's administration raided an election office in Georgia on Wednesday.
Greg Bluestein, chief political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, received a copy of the warrant Trump's FBI used to enter the Fulton County Clerk's office and posted it on X. The warrant confirmed suspicions among some analysts that the raid was tied to Trump's insistence that he won Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.
The warrant gave Trump's FBI access to all records related to suspected record retention and other criminal violations that occurred during the 2020 general election. Those files include all the physical ballots, all tabular tapes from Fulton County's voting machines, all ballot images produced, and all voter rolls from the election.
It also includes some startling language about who will have access to review the files recovered during the raid. The warrant says "any government personnel" can review the collected data, which may include "technical experts" contracted to work with the administration.
Trump ally Tina Peters is currently serving a nine-year sentence in Colorado state prison for giving an unauthorized vendor access to her county's voting system. Peters has appealed to Trump for a pardon, although the president cannot pardon people for state crimes.
