{"id":931,"date":"2026-05-28T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:09:34","slug":"inside-the-justice-departments-pursuit-of-trumps-2020-election-fraud-fixations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Justice Department\u2019s pursuit of Trump\u2019s 2020 election fraud fixations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Justice Department has pursued investigations into President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 election fraud claims for months without producing evidence of widespread fraud.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump-appointed prosecutor initially leading the election fraud work appeared to be sidelined after expressing willingness to cooperate with county officials on certain legal issues.<\/li>\n<li>The administration has been hyping smaller cases involving non-citizen voting and alleged voter registration fraud, often involving only one or two people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            When President Donald Trump promised, seemingly out of the blue, in late January that prosecutions would \u201csoon\u201d be coming for 2020 election rigging, the Justice Department was already mobilizing an effort behind the scenes to build out a portfolio of cases that would boost the White House\u2019s narrative.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=923\">James Talarico campaign says it raised more than $3 million in 24 hours since Texas primary runoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Since then, a rotating cast of attorneys \u2014 both political appointees and prosecutors \u2014 have attempted to carry out Trump\u2019s wishes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The sprawling effort, however, has already hit substantial roadblocks and has not publicly surfaced any information that would shake past authoritative findings that Trump\u2019s loss in the 2020 election wasn\u2019t fraudulent. That hasn\u2019t stopped prosecutors from taking sweeping and unprecedented actions to obtain ballots and other 2020 election materials, with an approach that prompted discomfort and resistance from even the Trump-appointed US attorney initially tasked with steering the department-wide initiative.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The department\u2019s election fraud tactics have been questioned in court, too. One federal judge in Georgia said this month that a search warrant affidavit the FBI submitted to seize Atlanta-area ballots was \u201ctroubling\u201d and \u201cmisleading,\u201d even as he ruled against a request by Fulton County that the materials be returned.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A separate judge in Georgia last week grilled the DOJ on whether the administration was attempting an \u201coverbroad fishing expedition\u201d with its demands for the personal contact information for thousands of county election workers, so that investigators could interview them. The prosecutor defending the subpoena was parachuting into the Rome, Georgia, hearing from a US attorney\u2019s office in Alabama. Also present was US Attorney Dan Bishop, who leads a US attorney\u2019s office in North Carolina, and is coordinating election integrity efforts at Washington\u2019s command.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Lawyers for Fulton County, critics of this Justice Department, state leaders and other Trump legal and political opponents say that backward-looking investigative steps picking at the 2020 election could brew mistrust in this year\u2019s elections. They\u2019ve also raised concerns that the election integrity efforts are intimidating election workers and voters from participating in future contests.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Absent any new cases suggesting massive fraud, the Justice Department\u2019s election integrity efforts have now broadened to look at one-or two-person indictments for a small number of votes cast by non-citizen immigrants in past elections.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An election worker handles ballots as vote counting in the general election continues at State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020, in Atlanta.\" class=\"wp-image-928\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4a616842c5b2c4934d84b928a9f3f8ff.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>An election worker handles ballots as vote counting in the general election continues at State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020, in Atlanta.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Brynn Anderson\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>The Justice Department wants to interview 2020 election workers<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>4  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche himself seemed to lower expectations that the department would be able to deliver prosecutions that would show a sweeping election conspiracy against Trump, even as he doubled down on 2020 vote-rigging conspiracy theories.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a recent interview on Fox News, he claimed there was \u201ca ton of evidence that the election was rigged \u2026 there\u2019s been evidence about that for many, many years.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But Blanche also alleged that the supposed perpetrators were \u201cvery good at hiding up misconduct and hiding what they\u2019re doing.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cYou\u2019ll say to me: How long has it taken? Why is it taking so long? And the reality, the answer is that because it takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Internal clashes over the probes\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Litigation over the ballots seized in Georgia revealed that Tom Albus, the top Trump-appointed prosecutor in St. Louis, had been tapped to lead the department\u2019s work on election issues in recent months. His reign, however, was short lived.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            As the county\u2019s legal challenge to the seizure unfolded, Albus appeared to be sidelined. Attorneys from Justice Department headquarters took a lead role defending the search in court after Albus expressed willingness to work with the county on certain issues that popped up in the case, according to court filings, like reaching a deal to return the ballots or putting an FBI agent on the stand in the legal challenge to testify about the warrant.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Two sources told CNN that Albus had grown weary of the election fraud hunt, at times even threatening to resign from his post entirely instead of participating in the effort. Senior Justice Department officials, including then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, were frustrated by his hesitancy, the sources said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Albus did not respond to a CNN inquiry left with his US attorney\u2019s office.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            As Albus had all but disappeared in the Fulton County ballot case, Bondi announced in late March \u2014 days before she was fired by Trump \u2014 that Bishop would lead the department\u2019s election investigations nationwide.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At last week\u2019s hearing in Rome, Georgia, on the subpoena for the election workers information, Bishop told Judge William Ray that both he and Albus had the same role now, as special attorneys to the Attorney General \u201cfor this purpose,\u201d according to a transcript of the hearing obtained by CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Bishop had no prior prosecutorial experience before his appointment to the Justice Department. As a Republican member of the House, he voted against certifying President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 win and said he still believed the election was \u201crigged\u201d in the confirmation proceedings for his current role.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        White House involvement\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The mark that a Trump-appointed voter fraud czar in the White House has made on the criminal probes is a departure from the distance the Justice Department has kept from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the past.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Kurt Olsen, an election denier now serving as the White House director of election security and integrity, submitted the referral that launched the Fulton County probe, and, according to information shared with CNN, he also provided information for DOJ\u2019s 2020 election probe in Arizona, for which investigators have obtained records from an audit of the vote in Maricopa County, which contains Pheonix.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Attorney Kurt Olsen during his opening statement in Kari Lake's election challenge trial on May 17, 2023, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa, Arizona.\" class=\"wp-image-929\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16c9d8210152d1be0dd57927a83e5388.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16c9d8210152d1be0dd57927a83e5388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16c9d8210152d1be0dd57927a83e5388-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Attorney Kurt Olsen during his opening statement in Kari Lake&#8217;s election challenge trial on May 17, 2023, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa, Arizona.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Mark Henle\/The Arizona Republic\/USA Today Network\/Imagn Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Olsen previously spearheaded lawsuits challenging the integrity of elections in Arizona and faced court sanctions for misrepresentations he made in that litigation. He was also involved in a Georgia lawsuit brought by election deniers, and his past legal efforts tie him to some of the witnesses the FBI relied on to justify the seizure of the Fulton County ballots.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=919\">Republicans are poised to finish this year\u2019s redistricting war 10 seats ahead of Democrats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Sources both in the White House and the Justice Department, however, pushed back at the idea that he is driving the DOJ\u2019s focus, describing him as one member of a larger team.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still, Olsen has become a central figure in the administration-wide effort to combat alleged voter fraud, acting as a liaison among the multiple agencies focusing on Trump\u2019s hunt for fraud and with outside activists who have helped keep alive the election rigging theories.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a statement, a White House spokesperson said, \u201cElection integrity has always been a top priority for President Trump.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHis entire Administration is working together closely on these issues. The President will do everything in his power to lawfully defend the safety and security of American elections and to ensure that only American citizens are voting in them,\u201d spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Too late to revisit\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            In several of their attempts to reexamine the 2020 election, the Justice Department may be blocked by the clock \u2014 under federal criminal law, most charges must be filed within five years of the vote, leaving investigators racing against time as potential evidence and opportunity slip away.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n             In Georgia, federal prosecutors have argued that grand juries should still be able to investigate, and if charges were to be brought around 2020, any case could be challenged for its timeframe after its indictment.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still, the Trump administration-backed US attorneys and the FBI are persisting in several 2020 swing states, including Arizona and Wisconsin.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Under state and federal law, election materials are typically only preserved for about two years after an election. But the new DOJ probes in Georgia and Arizona have been able to capitalize on how the unrelenting reviews of the 2020 vote have forced the preservation of the materials in some battleground states, allowing them to be obtained by federal investigators.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In Wisconsin, federal investigators have sought interviews with election officials in recent weeks. The FBI spoke to a top official on the state election board last month, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, in an interview that covered various theories of fraud in the state\u2019s elections.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            An agent also attempted to interview the head of elections for Milwaukee County, home to Wisconsin\u2019s largest Black population and a target of 2020 election-rigging conspiracy theories, according to a statement from the county clerk that said the agent left a business card at the private residence of the election director.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A voter receives his ballot at a polling station inside the\u00a0Milwaukee\u00a0Academy of Chinese Language School on Election Day in\u00a0Milwaukee,\u00a0Wisconsin on November 3, 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-930\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c5844dec3d9182fd81db0f9e234c84df.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c5844dec3d9182fd81db0f9e234c84df.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c5844dec3d9182fd81db0f9e234c84df-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>A voter receives his ballot at a polling station inside the\u00a0Milwaukee\u00a0Academy of Chinese Language School on Election Day in\u00a0Milwaukee,\u00a0Wisconsin on November 3, 2020. <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Bing Guan\/Reuters<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cNo dedicated public servant should be subjected to that type of intrusion simply for carrying out her responsibilities with integrity and professionalism,\u201d Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said. \u201cWhile we cooperate with all legitimate law enforcement actions, we will defend against any attack on our democracy and will defend the rights of voters of Milwaukee County.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        One-off fraud cases and voter roll pursuits\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Encountering hurdles in its reach-back to 2020 stolen election theories, the Trump administration is hyping smaller-scale fraud investigations \u2014 often concerning more recent elections \u2014 that have resulted in one-off charges.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Multiple people familiar with the lower-level voter fraud cases now pursued by the Justice Department say they dust off minuscule numbers of votes, some regarding one or two people, from years ago in various states, and not all will result in charges.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A few cases have. Recent criminal complaints accused four non-citizens of voting illegally in New Jersey elections. Another case, announced last week with a splashy press conference, involved a California woman who illegally paid people to register to vote on Los Angeles\u2019 Skid Row to maximize the compensation she received for obtaining signatures for petition drives. The Justice Department reached a one-count plea deal with the woman, according to court filings, which put forward no evidence that unlawful votes were cast.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Much of the investigatory heavy-lifting on those cases and similar probes is being handled by the DHS\u2019 Homeland Security Investigations, according to court documents and other information shared with CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            HSI historically has handled more complex matters, like major gang cases, drug smuggling, child exploitation and import-export control. But the administration has instructed the DHS agency to look for naturalized citizens who voted or registered to vote, as part of a larger pivot under Trump to focus HSI on low-legal immigration work that dovetails with the President\u2019s mass deportation agenda.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At the same time, the Trump-appointed head of the DOJ\u2019s civil rights division \u2014 which includes the department\u2019s voting section \u2014 has sought confidential voter registration data from nearly every state for a nationwide plan to audit the voter rolls against federal immigration records and other datasets. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has sued 30 states that have rejected the demands for voter rolls, but so far not a single court has ruled in the administration\u2019s favor and eight judges have rejected DOJ\u2019s arguments.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The DOJ has also agreed to hand over to DHS the state voter rolls Dhillon is obtaining for HSI\u2019s election fraud investigations, according to internal documents obtained by CNN through a lawsuit brought against the administration by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Dhillon has claimed that the administration has found tens of thousands of non-citizens on the rolls, and hundreds of thousands of deceased voters. But state election officials who have used the DHS citizenship data program for their own list maintenance efforts warn it can wrongly identify citizens as noncitizens, presenting an inflated picture of the number of foreigners registered to vote.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=905\">Federal prosecutors charge Google engineer for allegedly using insider info to make $1.2 million on Polymarket<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Donald Trump promised, seemingly out of the blue, in late January that prosecutions would \u201csoon\u201d be coming for 2020 election rigging, the Justice Department was already mobilizing an effort behind the scenes to build out a portfolio of cases that would boost the White House\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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