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RandySF

(82,606 posts) Tue Feb 10, 2026, 03:06 PM Feb 10

Former Trump campaign lawyer sparked FBI probe of Fulton County ballots: Affidavit

A referral by former Trump campaign lawyer Kurt Olsen led to the recent FBI raid that seized 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia, elections center, a newly unsealed federal court document revealed Tuesday.

The document said that the FBI is conducting a “criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties” alleged to have occurred in voting processes and ballot counting in Fulton County in 2020 “were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”

“The FBI criminal investigation originated from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity,” the documents says.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/trump-olsen-fbi-fulton-county-ballots.html

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Former Trump campaign lawyer sparked FBI probe of Fulton County ballots: Affidavit (Original Post) RandySF Feb 10 OP

Are they still searching for bamboo paper? bucolic_frolic Feb 10 #1

Can Georgia prosecute for obtaining a warrant on a perjured statement?? pat_k Feb 10 #2

Director of Election Security... GiqueCee Feb 10 #3

After court order, DOJ divulges search warrant affidavit for FBI's Fulton County election raid LetMyPeopleVote Feb 10 #4

bucolic_frolic

(54,617 posts)

1. Are they still searching for bamboo paper?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2026, 03:10 PM

Feb 10

This was so long ago they have to come up with new material

pat_k

(12,885 posts)

2. Can Georgia prosecute for obtaining a warrant on a perjured statement??

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2026, 03:13 PM

Feb 10

I have NO doubt that every single one of this asshole's allegations has been as irrefutably disproven as the intentional, defamatory lies that FOX promoted and paid 787 million in damages for.

GiqueCee

(3,703 posts)

3. Director of Election Security...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2026, 03:21 PM

Feb 10

... and Integrity??? To use that word in association with anything or anyone even tangentially connected to Trump is an obscenity. Integrity is an utterly foreign concept to The Orange Gargoyle, and, quite frankly, to anyone with an (R) after its name.
Pitiful posturing and third-rate theatrics are all any of them are capable of; forget about actually governing in the best interests of those they purport to represent.
They make me want to puke.

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,433 posts)

4. After court order, DOJ divulges search warrant affidavit for FBI's Fulton County election raid

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2026, 03:40 PM

Feb 10

This search warrant is totally bogus. It was issued based on allegations that had been litigated and disproved and the applicable statute of limitations had expired. This search warrant should had never been issued

After court order, DOJ divulges search warrant affidavit for FBIâ€™s Fulton County election raid www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
— Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) 2026-02-10T19:59:47.145Z

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-fulton-county-georgia-search-warrant-affidavit/

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday complied with a court order to publicly reveal the search warrant affidavit that initiated the FBI’s raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month.

Through the search, federal agents seized thousands of county records — including original ballots — from the 2020 presidential election, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed was stolen from him.....

The document reveals that the search was largely predicated on disinformation and debunked voter fraud claims pushed by private individuals since Trump’s loss.

The bureau’s sweeping search warrant against Fulton County’s main election operations center indicated that the raid stemmed from its investigation over alleged violations of election record retention and voter intimidation laws.

However, before the affidavit’s release, it was unknown what evidence, if any, the DOJ had presented to back the warrant.,,,,,

The local officials questioned whether prosecutors sufficiently established probable cause in securing the warrant. Instead, the officials said that there was a high likelihood that prosecutors presented widely debunked voter fraud theories.....

Despite the FBI’s warrant, the legality of the search has been in question. Legal experts noted that the statute of limitations for the crimes the bureau appears to be investigating has already lapsed.

The attorney who filed the request for this warrant should be worried about sanctions. This warrant is totally frivolous.

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