FBI Says Georgia Search Warrant Was Based on ‘Substantiated’ 2020 Election Irregularities

The FBI said it has “substantiated” irregularities in how votes were tabulated after the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia, according to an FBI official’s search warrant affidavit that a court unsealed on Feb. 10. President Donald Trump has long argued that election improprieties in the state contributed to his loss in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election. Last month, when discussing the 2020 election, Trump said that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did,” but did not elaborate. The FBI affidavit attached to the search warrant application provides the first public justification for the FBI’s Jan. 28 search at the Fulton County Election Hub in Fairburn, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Roughly 700 boxes of material related to the election were carted away by the FBI as part of its investigation....