{"id":65994,"date":"2026-02-10T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/trump-news-at-a-glance-why-did-fbi-raid-georgia-election-office-trump-loyal-election-deniers-told-them-to\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:57:10","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-why-did-fbi-raid-georgia-election-office-trump-loyal-election-deniers-told-them-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/trump-news-at-a-glance-why-did-fbi-raid-georgia-election-office-trump-loyal-election-deniers-told-them-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Why did FBI raid Georgia election office? Trump-loyal election deniers told them to"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unprecedented raid elevates concern<\/a> that the president will seek to interfere in this year\u2019s midterm elections \u2013 key US politics stories from 10 February 2026 at a glance<\/p>\n

When the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the Fulton county election office in Georgia<\/a> last month, the decision was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, a search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday reveals.<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s investigation \u201coriginated\u201d from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, an attorney who sought to overturn the 2020 election and contacted justice department officials to urge them to file a motion at the US supreme court to nullify the election. Olsen began working at the White House last year to investigate supposed election fraud.<\/p>\n

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Unprecedented raid elevates concern that the president will seek to interfere in this year\u2019s midterm elections \u2013 key US politics stories from 10 February 2026 at a glance When the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month, the decision was based on debunked claims from election deniers and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}