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The Trump administration has expanded its investigation into alleged irregularities in the 2020 election, with a federal grand jury subpoena seeking records connected to Arizona’s largest county.
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen said Monday that he complied late last week with a subpoena requesting records related to the state Senate’s audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election.
“The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news,” Petersen wrote on X.
He was responding to a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump that stated: “Great!!! FBI secretly seizes election records from Arizona’s largest county as voting probe expands.”
The subpoena arrives five years after the Republican-led Arizona Senate conducted a review of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County.
In that election, Democrat Joe Biden won Maricopa County by 40,105 votes, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate had won in the county since 1948. Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes.
President Trump later won both Maricopa County and the state in the 2024 presidential election, as he did in 2016.
People familiar with the investigation told Just the News that the FBI obtained subpoenaed data covering multiple election cycles, including both 2020 and 2024.
More recently, the bureau was alerted to a report from election observers, both Republican and Democrat, who said they believed they witnessed irregularities during the November 2024 election. According to the sources, observers reported seeing blank and completed absentee ballots stored in the same warehouse location in Arizona.
The move follows the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election records from Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this year, where President Trump lost the state by less than 11,000 votes.
The Trump administration has also pushed for increased voter safety measures, including the SAVE America Act, which is currently under discussion in Congress.
