"What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren't investigating a crime. Nor were they serving the public. Justifying President Trump's Big Lie about winning the 2020 election may seem like his own lost cause but like his Confederate forebears, he is weaponizing it, damage be damned. Not even his subsequent election victory has quieted Trump's appetite for more power, earned or otherwise."
"As their ICE compatriots in Minnesota were laying siege to the Twin Cities, the FBI removed ballots and election records from a majority-Black jurisdiction that helped deliver Trump's defeat in Georgia more than five years ago. He lost and has admitted as much. Nevertheless, he persists. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was present in Fulton county at Trump's request. Upon that revelation, what could have been explained as routine oversight became a piece of suspicious political theater."
FBI agents removed ballots and election records from a Fulton County election facility in a majority-Black jurisdiction that helped deliver Trump's defeat in Georgia. The removal coincided with ICE enforcement in Minnesota and followed Trump's persistent claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Tulsi Gabbard, described as director of national intelligence, attended at Trump's request, turning the action into political theater. No evidence of fraud accompanied the operation, suggesting the objective was power and intimidation rather than law enforcement. The episode parallels broader efforts to erasure across immigration enforcement, suppression of Black history, and proposals to nationalize elections to control outcomes.
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