FBI director teases Trump election fraud evidence as Florida conspiracy probe gains steam
by Alex Swoyer · The Washington TimesFBI Director Kash Patel hinted at evidence that backs up President Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 election — but quickly backed off revealing what he knows.
Seen, Heard & Whispered is told that what Mr. Patel knows is likely to come to light as part of a broad federal investigation, based in Florida, that seeks to get to the bottom of a decade-old “grand conspiracy” to stop Mr. Trump.
“It seems like it’s all being rolled into the Florida case,” our source said.
That probe is quickly gaining steam.
Joe diGenova, a Trump ally, was just named counselor to the attorney general and was assigned to help the U.S. attorney’s office in southern Florida pursue the grand conspiracy investigation.
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Mr. diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for Washington in the Reagan administration, blasted former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe in the president’s first term. A grand jury has been seated since last year to pursue the matter.
Mr. Trump has long believed in a wall of resistance that worked against him, beginning with what he said was fraud that denied him the popular vote victory in 2016, pursued him with ill-founded theories of “collusion” with Russia during his first term, and then denied him reelection in the 2020 contest.
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The election fraud claims have been rejected by courts, and no firm evidence has been presented, though Mr. Patel said last weekend on “Fox News Sunday” that “information … backs President Trump’s claim.”
At a press conference on Tuesday, the FBI chief said, “We have many ongoing investigations into large-scale conspiracies. … We’ll be announcing those arrests when the grand jury returns those indictments.”
Although the statute of limitations for crimes in the 2016 and 2020 elections has likely expired, the belief is that any overt acts to further an anti-Trump conspiracy since then could reopen legal jeopardy for the two elections.
• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.