Sharing the Facts About the Trump Administration’s 2020 Election Investigation

The 2020 presidential election was free, fair, and secure—a fact backed by state and local election officials, the nation’s top election security experts, and state and federal courts. But lies and misinformation about alleged widespread fraud, foreign election tampering, and wrongdoings by election officials continue to be rampant many years later, including within the Trump administration.

In January 2026, the FBI raided the elections headquarters in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing boxes of 2020 election ballots from the greater Atlanta area. According to reports, the search warrant also allowed federal agents to take tabulator tapes from voting machines, ballot images taken during the counting process, and voter rolls from the 2020 election.

Georgia became a fixation of the president’s ire after he lost the state in 2020, even demanding that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” the 11,000 votes he needed to win—a conversation that was caught on tape and used in a county election interference investigation. Trump has since continued to claim without evidence that he won the state.

But this federal investigation is not happening in isolation. The Trump administration has waged a year-long pressure campaign against states and their authority—all while still perpetuating lies about the 2020 election. The president directed officials in his administration to investigate the 2020 election. In March 2025, he signed an unconstitutional executive order that attempted to strip states of their constitutional powers to administer elections. Following that executive order, the U.S. Department of Justice made sweeping demands of states and counties to turn over their voters’ private information.

Here are some key takeaways about the Trump administration’s investigations into the 2020 election:

• Despite President Trump’s obsession with his loss in 2020, the election was free, fair, and secure.
  • The accuracy of the results has been proven time and time again. Any attempt to say otherwise undermines voters and the security of our elections. States already ran recounts and audited results. They didn’t find any wrongdoing.
  • This is about undermining trust in our elections so Trump can cast doubt on results he doesn’t like. It’s rooted in the same tired lies about voter fraud he pushes every election cycle.
  • The Justice Department is acting as an instrument for the president’s personal grievances, threatening states’ authority, voters’ privacy, and more.
  • This is all meant to be a distraction.
• State and local officials are working hard to prepare for November’s midterm elections.
  • Our election officials are busy preparing for another free, fair, and secure election. The power grabs, threats, and undermining from the executive branch distract from that important work.
  • States have a long history of conducting secure and accurate elections that follow state and federal law.
  • Voters can be confident that every eligible vote—and only every eligible vote—is counted, and that our elections in this country are free, fair, and secure.
• This is federal election interference.
  • The Trump administration is conducting a targeted campaign to unlawfully seize voters’ private information. Going after state and local election officials is a desperate attempt to find an ounce of evidence to support their fishing expedition and lay the groundwork for interfering in the 2026 and 2028 elections.
  • The federal government is using its immense power to intimidate states into turning over protected data and changing their voting processes to fit the president’s whims.
  • The president’s only job in elections is to run for office. The Constitution is crystal clear: Elections are run by the states.
  • The administration is clearly trying to interfere with how states run elections.