U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Laurent Gillieron/Pool via REUTERS
The FBI executed a raid on an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia on Wednesday, relating to the 2020 election, which President Donald Trump maintains he "won." The move comes the week after the top agent was shoved out.
Speaking about it to CNN after the news broke, former Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aaronberg called it a "Kash Patel attempt to continue to bein the good graces of President [Donald] Trump."
Patel took over as the director of the FBI after Trump fired his own previous appointee, Christopher Wray and Wray was hired after then-FBI Director James Comey refused to swear fidelity to Trump in 2017.
Aaronberg noted that Trump has been "obsessed" with the 2020 election to such a degree that he went through over 60 court rulings across the country where judges refused to allow further attempts by Trump to challenge votes in key Democratic areas or through mail-in voting.
"There's absolutely noevidence of widespread fraud," said Aaronberg. "But before we go down that road,we have to realize that if thisseizure took place, if this raidtook place, it means that afederal judge or magistrate hadto sign off on a warrant, thatthere was probable cause of acrime, and that evidence of that crime would be at that location."
He said that the prosecutors must have some kind of affidavit that gives them "evidence" to convince a judge to sign off.
"So, itcan't be entirely pie in thesky political stuff by Kash Patel," he continued. However, "At the same time, itdoesn't mean they have any realevidence, just perhaps anaffidavit saying they think thatthere's something there."
CNN asked Aaronberg where he sees the new investigation going and he said he assumes it will be dismissed like all of the others.
"Oh, I see it going the sameway that True the Vote and Kash Patel and a lot of theseconspiracy theorists will end up,which is in a court rejectingthese claims. Remember when Truethe Vote and Dinesh D'Souza cameup with '2000 Mules' and these ideas of ballot harvestingand election fraud. When theystood up in court — they stooddown. They fell apart. They didnot last the test in courtbecause it's one thing that youcan say anything you want in acourt of public opinion, but infront of a judge, you've got tohave real evidence," recalled Aaronberg.
Those allegations don't result in actual evidence, however, he said.
"It's all stuff that's fit forright-wing podcasts. Not forcourts. So, I think this thingwill fall flat. But they'regetting what they want now theyget to feed the right-wing mediabase to say that, look, we'vegot a raid! There must besomething there! In the end,when the cameras are turned off,I think that this story will goaway," he said.