Kash Patel just ordered every FBI field office in America to send analysts to recount an election Donald Trump lost six years ago.
The directive pulls 260 analysts and gives them two weeks to comb through Fulton County’s 2020 records. Georgia counted those votes three times, once by hand, and got the same answer every time. The only reason to assign that many intelligence analysts to a settled count is to deliver proof of an answer someone has already written.
The target can’t be 2020. Even if the election deniers were right about every claim, there is nothing left to overturn. A federal finding of “irregularities” in Georgia’s biggest Democratic county is a permission slip for whatever comes next. That is not a far-fetched scenario. A federal judge today had to order the Post Office to deliver mail ballots in this year’s elections. They are building the case against an election six years ago to take control of the next one.
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