FBI Director Kash Patel said there is evidence backing 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.
Joseph 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.
Mr. diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for Washington in the Reagan administration, was part of Mr. Trump’s legal team that battled former special counsel Robert Mueller’s election interference probe in his first term. A grand jury has been seated to pursue the matter.
Mr. Trump has long cited a wall of resistance that has 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, then denied him reelection in the 2020 contest.
Courts rejected the election fraud claims, and no firm evidence has yet been presented, though Mr. Patel said this weekend there appears to be some fire to justify the smoke.
“We have the information that backs President Trump’s claim,” Mr. Patel told “Fox News Sunday.”
“I can’t get ahead of the DOJ and the president,” he added, telling viewers to “stay tuned.”
Although the statute of limitations for crimes in the 2016 and 2020 elections has likely expired, the belief is that any overt acts furthering an anti-Trump conspiracy since then could reopen legal jeopardy for those two elections.
