After court order, DOJ releases timeline of Fulton County election probe

Following a federal court order earlier this week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday turned over key details about its seizure of 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia.

For weeks, the DOJ tried to keep the information — a timeline of events leading up to the FBI’s criminal probe into Fulton County and the raid — from county officials in their ongoing lawsuit to force the federal government to return the sensitive records, which included original ballots.

Fulton County officials have argued that the DOJ, which, before the raid, had sought the materials through demand letters and a civil lawsuit, used the criminal probe to obtain the records by force.

Previously, the DOJ had admitted that the criminal investigation was initiated by a criminal referral from Kurt Olsen, a notorious conspiracy theorist hired by the White House to investigate the 2020 election, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed was stolen from him.


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