Key Highlights
- Patel said investigators conducted an "extensive" investigation before action was taken. The warrant covered materials connected to the 2020 election, court records show.
- President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed fraud tainted the Georgia results, a state he narrowly lost to former President Joe Biden.
- "The FBI follows the facts and the law, and President Trump and the attorney general have given us a clear mandate to reduce crime in this country and investigate anything that rises to the level of probable cause," Patel said on "Saturday in America." FBI BUSTS LATIN KINGS GANG NATIONWIDE, NEARLY 50 ARRESTED IN SWEEPING CRACKDOWN FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on Dec.
- 4, 2025.
- (Daniel Heuer/) "The FBI and the DOJ went in and collected numerous pieces of evidence that the judge authorized us to collect," Patel later added. TRUMP SEEKS MORE THAN $6M FROM FANI WILLIS' OFFICE IN WAKE OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE Fox News Digital reported that the warrant allowed agents to collect physical ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images and voter rolls from the 2020 election. The search came days after Trump again called for prosecutions related to the 2020 election.
