(Washington) The FBI, the American federal police, carried out a search on Wednesday in an electoral center in Georgia, at the heart of the unfounded accusations of fraud during the 2020 presidential election launched by Donald Trump, we learned from reliable sources.
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The operation is taking place at the Fulton County elections office in Atlanta, capital of the state of Georgia, report several American media, including Fox News, CNN and the daily Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).
“The FBI is carrying out police action authorized by the courts,” a spokesperson for the federal police simply confirmed to AFP.
A large number of federal agents are retrieving boxes of ballots from the warehouse where they were stored, said a Fulton County administrative official, contacted byAJC.
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Fulton County Elections Office
Donald Trump was indicted in 2023 by federal courts and those of the state of Georgia, in the southeast of the United States, for illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden. These charges were dropped following his election in 2024 to a second term.
Last week, the Republican president reiterated his desire to take revenge on those responsible for the criminal proceedings against him.
“The 2020 election was a rigged election, everyone knows that,” he reaffirmed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “People will soon be charged for what they did,” he threatened.
He also commented on the hearing before a parliamentary committee in the United States of federal prosecutor Jack Smith, who had initiated federal proceedings against him, calling him a “rabid beast who should no longer be allowed to practice law”. “Let’s hope that the Minister of Justice examines what he did,” added Donald Trump.
Georgia and Fulton County found themselves at the center of unsubstantiated claims of election fraud made by Donald Trump supporters in 2020.
His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had notably accused, based on a video showing two electoral agents from Fulton County passing an object – which turned out to be a mint tablet – of rigging the results.
He had claimed that the two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, exchanged a USB key “as if they were doses of heroin or cocaine”, accusations for which he was ordered in December 2023 to pay them $148 million for defamation.
Conversely, the proceedings against Donald Trump for electoral interference were based in particular on a telephone call in January 2021 – the recording of which was made public – in which the outgoing president asked a senior local official to “find” the approximately 12,000 ballots he was missing to win the 16 electors of Georgia.
