'Unusual' move as DNI arranges call with Trump and agents who raided GA elections office
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President Donald Trump chatted via speakerphone with the FBI agents who raided a Fulton County elections office in Georgia last week in an "unusual" move, the New York Times reports.
According to Times, the president had questions for the agents once they'd gathered up documents, including ballots and personal information for voters in the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center.
"What occurred during the meeting was even further outside the bounds of normal law enforcement procedure. Ms. Gabbard used her cellphone to call Mr. Trump, who did not initially pick up but called back shortly after," the report said, citing those they spoke to.
Trump asked questions and gushed agents with praise for their willingness to enact the search warrant.
"The supervisor of the squad, which investigates allegations of public corruption and civil rights violations and developed the evidence for the search," answered Trump's questions, sources told the Times.
One official dismissed the moment as a "short" call compared to a "pep rally" or the speech a coach gives to players at halftime. There was no "substantive direction" from him once the raid was over.
Trump told the press while at the World Economic Forum “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did” to him in the 2020 election.
In a recorded phone call to top election officials after the 2020 presidential election, Trump demanded that state leaders "find" him 11,780 votes so he could "win" Georgia.
The Times also reported that the raid "is part of a broader effort by the department to obtain voter data. Already, it has sued nearly half the states in the country for access to their voter rolls, including the private information of voters."