FBI reveals up at Fulton County election hub days after Trump referenced imaginable 2020 election arrests

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WASHINGTON — The FBI completed a search warrant at an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia, on Wednesday, seeking records associated to the 2020 election, per the county.

The FBI urged NBC News that it used to be “conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity” at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Heart, while the FBI’s Atlanta self-discipline attach of job confirmed the say and said an “investigation into this matter is ongoing so there are no details that we can provide at the moment.”

Robb Pitts, chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, urged newshounds late Wednesday that he doesn’t know the attach the records are being taken.

“All I know is that as long as those boxes had been in the control of the county in this facility, they were safe and secure,” he 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.”

Sherri Allen, chair of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, said that as of 8 p.m. ET the FBI used to be “still in the building.” Allen added in her remarks to newshounds that the board “entirely complied” with the FBI.

State Sen. Josh McLaurin, a Democrat who represents Fulton County, called the search “extraordinarily alarming.”

According to a senior Trump administration official, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was also in Fulton County on Wednesday and visited an elections hub — the same day the FBI executed a search warrant at the center.

“Director Gabbard has a pivotal role in election security and protecting the integrity of our elections against interference, including operations targeting voting systems, databases, and election infrastructure,” the senior administration official told NBC News in an email. “She has and will continue to take action on President Trump’s directive to secure our elections and work with our interagency partners to do so.”

Pitts told reporters Wednesday that Gabbard has not been in communication with the board.

Speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was “rigged” and said that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”

Fulton County has been a fixation of Trump’s since his 2020 election loss in Georgia. In the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack, Trump compelled Georgia Secretary of Shriek Brad Raffensperger in a mobile telephone name to “fetch 11,780 votes,” which used to be roughly Joe Biden’s margin of victory in the articulate.

“Attain you deem it’s imaginable that they shredded ballots in Fulton County?” Trump requested Raffensperger at the time. “On myth of that’s what the rumor is.”

Raffensperger’s attach of job declined to observation Wednesday.

Pitts said he used to be no longer vastly surprised when he realized about the search warrant ensuing from “Fulton County is web of on a hit record.”

“We have complied with the law. The 2020 elections were fair. They were open. Every legal vote was counted, and we will continue to comply with the law,” he said.

Feeble particular counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss great that Fulton County election workers purchased demise threats after Trump made his false claims.

The Fulton County Election Hub opened in 2023. The Elections Division occupies “the largest area with more than 261,000 square feet dedicated to staff, operations, and equipment,” per a put up from the county executive at the time.

Trump’s take into accout Fulton County also dovetails with the articulate prison case Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis brought against him. The case used to be brushed apart after she used to be disqualified from prosecuting it amid battle-of-passion allegations. Trump had pleaded no longer guilty and is now seeking more than $6.2 million in lawyer charges and prices in reference to that investigation.

Two Georgia election workers who were smeared by Trump allies — Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss — were pressured and purchased a torrent of threats after they were falsely accused of collaborating in a voter fraud plan. Rudy Giuliani, the extinct Original York mayor who boosted Trump’s false election claims, accused the duo of passing USB drives “fancy vials of heroin or cocaine,” when in fact they were passing a ginger mint. The duo were awarded $148 million in damages after a 2023 trial, and Giuliani happy the judgment in 2025.

Smith told members of Congress in a deposition final month that Freeman and Moss “were of us that Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump focused with entirely false claims of election fraud” that “brought on them to suffer all these web of vile threats.”