UPDATE: FBI Raids Fulton County Election Hub: A New Front in the Trump Election Narrative

The seizure of 2020 ballots and records — with the DNI present — must be seen as more than a footnote.

On Wednesday, the FBI raided an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia. County officials say the FBI seized records and ballots related to the 2020 election.

This story isn’t getting the attention it deserves. If anyone is wondering how President Trump may interfere in the midterm elections, this could be the playbook. Most mainstream media have relegated it to small-print status.

Oddly, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was on scene. That is highly unusual.

To me, that suggests a connection to the recent arrest of Nicolás Maduro.

Let me explain.

A long-running conspiracy theory pushed by the Trump podcast corps claims that Maduro somehow rigged the 2020 election for Biden — all the way from Venezuela. Now that Maduro is in custody, the obvious question is this: What deals might he be making with the administration to “confirm” those conspiracy theories? And how would Trump use that to nullify election results he doesn’t like?

Sherri Allen, chair of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, said the board “fully complied” with the FBI.

Robb Pitts, chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, said late Wednesday that he does not know where the records are being taken.

“All I know is that as long as those boxes were in the control of the county in this facility, they were safe and secure,” Pitts said. “I can no longer, as chair of this board, satisfy not only the citizens of Atlanta but the citizens of the world that those ballots are still secure.”

So what happens next?

Does this mean administration officials will carry out a Trump-approved “recount” and suddenly find the “missing votes” Trump desperately wanted in 2020? You’ll recall that Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a phone call to “find 11,780 votes” — roughly Joe Biden’s margin of victory in the state.

Former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss noted that county election workers received death threats after Trump promoted false claims, including the lie that Venezuela was somehow behind a plot to keep him from winning.

Now, as Trump’s poll numbers sink to unprecedented depths, and amid repeated warnings of a Republican electoral “bloodbath” in November, desperation may be growing.

Stay tuned. A lot more breaking news is likely to come out of this story.

And I can only hope that mainstream corporate media will recognize how important — and how dangerous — these events are, and remember their role as the watchdogs of democracy.

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