Breaking — FBI Raids Georgia Election Office to Pursue Trump's 2020 Lies

The county that indicted him is now being searched by his FBI. Georgia Republicans already said there was no fraud. He's doing it anyway.

While others stenograph, grift, or chase the next distraction—this is the news that matters and how it’s connected.

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“People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”

That was Trump, one week ago, talking about the 2020 election—the one he lost, the one every court rejected his claims about, the one his own attorney general said wasn’t stolen.¹

Today, his FBI delivered.

A dozen federal agents executed a search warrant at Fulton County’s Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia—the vast building where votes are counted on election night in Georgia’s most populous county.¹ ² The warrant sought records from the 2020 election.¹ ² ³

Let that sink in. The president who was indicted for trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election is now using federal law enforcement to investigate the county that charged him.

The Target

Why Fulton County?

Because that’s where Trump’s mugshot was taken. Because it’s Georgia’s Democratic stronghold—largely nonwhite, overwhelmingly for Biden. Because Fani Willis dared to hold him accountable, indicting Trump and 18 others for election interference in 2023.² That case was dismissed in November on a technicality—Willis’s relationship with a prosecutor—not because the charges lacked merit.¹

And because Trump has been obsessed with Fulton County for five years. His pressure campaign there culminated in the infamous phone call demanding Georgia’s secretary of state help “find” enough votes to overturn his loss.¹ ² He and his allies have repeatedly seized on footage from State Farm Arena that they claim shows fraud.²

It doesn’t. Georgia’s Republican leadership—the governor, the secretary of state, the top election officials—all confirmed no evidence of fraud.² Gabriel Sterling, the Republican chief operating officer for the secretary of state, explained that the footage showed standard scanner operating procedure, not malfeasance: “If there had been multiple scans, there would have been a lot more votes than there were ballots.”²

Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay two election workers $148.1 million for defaming them with these lies.³

None of that matters. Trump lost, and someone must be punished.

The Pattern

This isn’t isolated. It’s a pattern—and we’ve been tracking it.

Last month, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division—now run by conservative activist Harmeet Dhillon—filed a civil lawsuit against Fulton County, accusing officials of violating the Civil Rights Act by not handing over 2020 ballots.² In October, Dhillon subpoenaed the ballots directly.²

In a separate lawsuit, the Justice Department sued Georgia itself, seeking the state’s complete voter rolls—including driver’s licenses and partial Social Security numbers.²

And just days ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Governor Tim Walz a letter demanding Minnesota’s complete voter rolls in exchange for reducing ICE enforcement—a letter a federal judge characterized as “a ransom note.”²

See what’s happening? The administration is systematically seizing state election data. Georgia’s ballots. Minnesota’s voter rolls. Not because they have evidence of fraud—every review has found none. Because controlling election infrastructure is how you control elections.

The Players

Kash Patel—the FBI director who replaced agents investigating Trump allies—forced out the head of the FBI’s Atlanta office just last week.² It’s unclear if that’s connected to today’s raid, but the timing is notable.²

At the scene today, Republican State Election Board member Salleigh Grubbs—who once followed a truck she believed was carrying ballots to be shredded—emerged to celebrate: “It’s been a long time in coming.”²

In November, Steve Bannon urged DOJ official Ed Martin, who has promoted election conspiracy theories, to send U.S. marshals to Fulton County to “claim ballots.”²

“We have to adjudicate 2020,” Bannon said on his podcast. “It’s the railhead of so much of the problem in the country.”²

They’re not investigating fraud. They’re relitigating an election they lost—with the full power of federal law enforcement.

What This Is

State Senator Josh McLaurin arrived at the scene and said what the media won’t: “This is an order from on high to try to disrupt Fulton County’s election administration, just because Donald Trump is still mad that he lost the 2020.”²

That’s not hyperbole. That’s the only explanation that fits the facts.

Multiple reviews found Fulton County’s 2020 elections were poorly managed but showed no evidence of intentional wrongdoing.¹ Georgia’s Republican leadership certified Biden’s win. Courts rejected every challenge. Trump’s own Justice Department found no fraud.

And yet: a dozen FBI agents in a county election office, five years later, executing a search warrant to pursue a conspiracy theory.

This is what weaponized justice looks like. The same administration investigating James Comey and Letitia James is now targeting the county that dared to hold Trump accountable. The message is clear: prosecute the president, and the president will prosecute you.

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The Call

This isn’t an isolated incident. We track stories like this using the fascism syndrome—ten indicators that a democracy is sliding into fascism—so you don’t lose the thread in the daily chaos:

• Weaponized justice: The county that indicted Trump is now being raided by Trump’s FBI. James Comey, Letitia James, Fulton County—the pattern is undeniable.

• War on reality: Georgia Republicans certified Biden’s win. Courts rejected every fraud claim. The DOJ found nothing. Trump’s response: send in the FBI anyway.

• Cult of the leader: This isn’t law enforcement pursuing evidence of crime. It’s federal resources deployed to validate one man’s ego and punish his enemies.

• Capture of the state: Kash Patel ousting the Atlanta FBI chief. Harmeet Dhillon running Civil Rights to pursue election conspiracies. Steve Bannon dictating DOJ priorities.

Raid election offices. Seize voter rolls. Prosecute counties that held you accountable. That’s not governance. That’s fascism.

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1. Kate Brumback, “Search warrant FBI served at elections office near Atlanta seeks records tied to the 2020 elections“, Associated Press, January 28, 2026.

Breaking news coverage of the FBI search warrant executed at Fulton County’s main election facility in Union City. Documents that the warrant sought 2020 election records, that Trump last week said “people will soon be prosecuted” over 2020, and provides critical context including the dismissal of the Willis case, the DOJ civil lawsuit, and multiple reviews finding no evidence of intentional wrongdoing despite sloppy management. Notes that the FBI replaced its top Atlanta agent last week.

2. Devlin Barrett, Richard Fausset, and Nick Corasaniti, “F.B.I. Agents Search Election Center in Fulton County Over 2020 Vote“, The New York Times, January 28, 2026.

Comprehensive coverage establishing the raid as escalation from civil lawsuit to criminal investigation. Documents about a dozen agents on site, Kash Patel’s ouster of the Atlanta FBI chief, Harmeet Dhillon’s subpoena of 2020 ballots, and the separate DOJ lawsuit for Georgia voter rolls. Includes State Senator Josh McLaurin’s statement that this is “an order from on high” because Trump is “still mad that he lost.” Notes Salleigh Grubbs’s celebration and the Bannon-Ed Martin conversation urging marshals be sent to Fulton County. Provides Gabriel Sterling’s debunking of the scanner footage conspiracy theory.

3. Sam Levine and George Chidi, “FBI executes search warrant at election office in Fulton county, Georgia“, The Guardian, January 28, 2026.

Coverage emphasizing that Trump’s false claims about Fulton County ballot fraud were debunked and that Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay $148.1 million in damages to two election workers he defamed. Notes that the process of turning over 300,000+ ballot envelopes would cost nearly $400,000 and take months.