The real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, Atlanta

[douglas9]

For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind today’s-FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping.

This is NOT, as the media seems to think, about Trump’s attempt to prove he won the 2020 race, as if he’s some political Captain Ahab was trying to chase the Moby Dick of 2020 revenge.

This is all about 2026 and 2028. Look at a map. Fulton County is the heart of “Blacklanta.” And Atlanta is the electoral heart of Georgia. And Georgia is the swingiest of swing states. If Republicans don’t cut down the Black vote in Atlanta, they lose the crucial seat now held by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. And in 2028, the GOP, if they don’t suppress the vote in Fulton, they lose the White House. Fulton was the fulcrum of Trump’s loss in 2020 and could spell doomsday for Republicans in 2028.

So, how exactly do you stop Fulton County Black folk (and the LGBTQ community and the hipsters who left rural Georgia because they hate their parents) from voting? The answer is in one word: DROP-BOX.


https://www.gregpalast.com/the-real-story-of-the-fbi-raid-on-fulton-county-atlanta/

[gab13by13]

1. They went after the voter rolls.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Yes. They want to know whom to threaten before the vote and whose registrations to cancel.

Cancelling a few thousand registrations days before the election without telling people means that voters show up but cannot vote. They then have no time to re-register or even if they tried the Republicans in charge of elections would just not process the registrations before the election, as Kemp did the year he ran for governor. We know Republicans will cheat, but how do we stop it?

[Easterncedar]

3. Right! We need to focus on and fight the NEXT REAL steal!

Thanks

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami

Fulton county, while critical to Georgia races, will not stop Dems from regaining control of the house in 2026 or winning the White House in 2028.

These are increasingly desperate acts of an administration losing its grip on both authority and reality.

Sadly, Palast has become a bit of a loon and CT nut in recent years, and is more of a clickbait merchant than a reliable source of news and analysis.

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. Please, please, please keep checking your registrations.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. MaddowBlog-As the FBI searches Fulton County, Trump's 2020 election fixation has escalated beyond whining

When it comes to his 2020 defeat, what the president is doing is now more alarming than what he’s saying.

Trump’s whining about his 2020 defeat is easy to ignore. His actions are not:
- FBI's ridiculous search in Fulton County
- hiring Kurt Olsen to focus exclusively on conspiracy theory
- directing DOJ to find imaginary evidence of fraud
- demanding baseless prosecutions
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-29T16:55:07.204Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/as-the-fbi-searches-fulton-co-trumps-2020-election-fixation-has-escalated-beyond-whining

In October, for example, Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who has touted election conspiracy theories, joined the administration as a special government employee with one focus: investigating the 2020 election. A month later, The Washington Post reported that the president was “dialing up pressure on the Justice Department to freshly scrutinize ballots from the 2020 election,” adding that “in recent private meetings, public comments and social media posts, Trump has renewed demands that members of his administration find fraud in the five-year-old defeat that he never accepted.”

That’s the context for FBI agents’ execution of a search warrant Wednesday at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta. MS NOW reported:

‘The warrant sought a number of records related to 2020 elections,’ Fulton County spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt said Wednesday afternoon.

According to a copy of the warrant obtained and verified by MS NOW, the federal government is seeking evidence of voter fraud, as well as violations of a misdemeanor federal statute requiring elections officials to retain records related to presidential elections for 22 months.

According to Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett and another Fulton County source, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, the FBI took “pallets of ballots.” A New York Times report noted that the move “harnesses the investigative power of the Justice Department and the F.B.I. behind baseless claims by Mr. Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen from him.”.....

If the White House wants federal law enforcement officials to waste their time rereviewing what we already know, that’s a shame for the officials who could be doing real work on behalf of the public, but in the grand scheme of things, it might seem trivial.

But it’s not quite that simple. For one thing, the president who controls the Justice Department is intent on prosecuting unnamed foes as part of his hysterical crusade, and the FBI’s latest efforts in Fulton County are another step down the same radical path. And as Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California explained well, this is also part of a larger effort by federal officials to interfere in local elections ahead of this year’s midterms.