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 be in 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 no evidence of widespread fraud," said Aaronberg. "But before we go down that road, we have to realize that if this seizure took place, if this raid took place, it means that a federal judge or magistrate had to sign off on a warrant, that there was probable cause of a crime, 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, it can't be entirely pie in the sky political stuff by Kash Patel," he continued. However, "At the same time, it doesn't mean they have any real evidence, just perhaps an affidavit saying they think that there'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 same way that True the Vote and Kash Patel and a lot of these conspiracy theorists will end up, which is in a court rejecting these claims. Remember when True the Vote and Dinesh D'Souza came up with '2000 Mules' and these ideas of ballot harvesting and election fraud. When they stood up in court — they stood down. They fell apart. They did not last the test in court because it's one thing that you can say anything you want in a court of public opinion, but in front of a judge, you've got to have real evidence," recalled Aaronberg.
Those allegations don't result in actual evidence, however, he said.
"It's all stuff that's fit for right-wing podcasts. Not for courts. So, I think this thing will fall flat. But they're getting what they want now they get to feed the right-wing media base to say that, look, we've got a raid! There must be something there! In the end, when the cameras are turned off, I think that this story will go away," he said.
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