Overview
- In an interview with Dan Bongino, President Trump pressed Republicans to take federal control of voting in at least 15 places and said the party should nationalize the process.
- The FBI executed a court-approved search at Fulton County election offices and removed 2020 ballots and records, prompting broad criticism from Georgia officials and plans for a federal lawsuit.
- Reporting indicates Trump spoke by phone with agents involved in the Georgia operation after Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Atlanta at his direction to coordinate with investigators.
- Trump repeated unfounded claims of widespread 2020 fraud and illegal voting by immigrants, assertions that courts and expert analyses have discredited.
- Any shift toward federal control would require congressional action and faces immediate legal hurdles, while parts of Trump's recent orders on voter registration and mail ballots have been blocked by federal judges.