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11/ Read on for the full story of how a small, interconnected group of Trump administration lawyers from Missouri played a behind-the-scenes role in the raid in Georgia…
www.propublica.org/article/thom...
10/ Albus, Martin, Olsen, the FBI, DOJ, and the White House all did not respond to requests for comment or detailed lists of questions.
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9/ Emails reviewed by ProPublica show that Albus and Martin have known each other since at least 2007.
In the email exchange, Albus put in a good word for a St. Louis lawyer who was a finalist for an appellate court judgeship. That candidate was ultimately selected.
8/ Under Trump, senior roles across the White House, DOJ and FBI have increasingly been filled by a small, interconnected group of Missouri lawyers with longstanding ties to one another.
Albus is part of that group.
7/ Albus, a U.S. Attorney in Missouri, was an unusual choice to investigate events in GA.
Former U.S. attorneys from both parties said it was rare for a prosecutor from one region to take on cases in other states or be granted nationwide authority.
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6/ The meetings reveal new details about the length of the preparations for, and people involved in, the Jan. FBI raid on Fulton County, which election and legal experts told ProPublica was a significant escalation in Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
5/ Olsen and Albus also later spoke to Kevin Moncla, a conservative researcher whose largely discredited claims are cited in the affidavit used to authorize the Fulton County raid.
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
4/ Another was Ed Martin, a DOJ lawyer who until recently led a group investigating what the president has described as its “weaponization” against him, according to the source.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/p...
3/ One was Kurt Olsen, the White House lawyer tasked with reinvestigating the 2020 election, who has been sanctioned in court for making false claims about voting machines in Arizona.
www.dailyjournal.com/article/3872...
2/ Thomas Albus, the federal prosecutor overseeing the GA ballot seizure, had several meetings set up with top admin. lawyers last fall to discuss election integrity — including 2 lawyers who'd tried to overturn Trump's 2020 loss, according to a source.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
1/ SCOOP: The process that led to the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election materials from GA has been going on longer than previously known – with meetings among top Trump administration lawyers about election integrity dating back to at least last fall.
www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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3/ ProPublica was part of a news coalition that sued to unseal the affidavit.
Read our full coverage of how a discredited conservative researcher’s work may have fueled the FBI’s raid in GA:
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
2/ The affidavit said the investigation originated from a referral from a White House lawyer, Kurt Olsen, who has been charged by President Donald Trump with reinvestigating the 2020 election and who has tried to help him overturn its results.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
1/ UPDATE: The affidavit underlying the FBI raid to seize 2020 election materials in GA has been unsealed. It cited allegations conservative researcher Kevin Moncla told @ProPublica he had briefed investigators on. Witness names are redacted.
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17/ For the full story of why activists and experts think a discredited conservative researcher’s work may have fueled the FBI’s raid in GA, read here:
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
16/ Mitchell did not respond to detailed questions from ProPublica.
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15/ In an interview, Moncla seemed shocked by what he believes he may have helped set off.
“I’m not saying that Trump won the election. I’m saying that Georgia’s election system is broken and needs to be fixed… I don’t want anyone to go to jail. I don’t want anyone to be hurt.”
14/ Moncla said he’d been surprised by the FBI’s raid, which he found out about via Fox News. He also said he thought his report was being “exploited” for political gain and that what he’s found shouldn’t be the basis for a criminal action.
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13/ Moncla called the secretary of state “a politician who doesn’t have any fucking credibility,” and said his own research proved the issues went beyond human error.
The secretary of state’s office didn’t respond to questions about Moncla’s criticism.
12/ Moncla acknowledged that not much in the report is new, but rather it compiles complaints filed to the GA election board in the past.
Many have been dismissed after investigations by the GOP secretary of state, identifying some as “human error.”
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11/ Both conservative activists and independent outsiders have pointed to a 263-page report by Moncla, published early Jan., as potentially supporting the affidavit.
It is part of a yearslong campaign by him and Mitchell to get access to election records.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
10/ It is currently impossible to know what evidence the gov. used to justify the raid because the warrant’s affidavit is sealed.
Over the weekend, a judge ordered it be unsealed by EOD Tue.
ProPublica was part of a news coalition arguing to unseal it.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/g...
9/ Moncla told ProPublica the voyeurism charge had no bearing on his election-related research. “That has nothing to do with this,” he said. “That was 20 years ago in a divorce custody battle.”
www.theledger.com/story/news/2...
8/ In 2004, Moncla pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was subsequently ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom.
www.texasobserver.org/kevin-moncla...
7/ Moncla said people were free to examine his research and make up their own minds. “I don’t want people to trust me,” he said. “I want people to trust the county’s records and facts” and a report he produced, which he described as “meticulously documented.”
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6/ In a defamation case stemming from the 2020 election, a lawyer for a conservative website called Moncla “a goddamned fraud” and “a known fabricator,” according to a court filing.
The case ended in a settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
5/ Trump and his lawyers have a history of citing Moncla’s claims about election fraud even as unsavory incidents in his past have surfaced and other conservatives have called him untrustworthy.
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