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It may be 2026, but Donald Trump is still refusing to let go of his 2020 loss to Joe Biden. So much so that the president has been pulling and twisting the levers of the U.S. government, seeking to ensure he never loses again. It’s been a slow creep, as the Justice Department and FBI work to obtain as many states’ sensitive voter details as the agencies can get their hands on, hoping to build a fraudulent case that America’s elections are not safe. It started with Georgia in January, when FBI agents seized more than 700 boxes of physical voter records in a raid that Trump personally called in. This week, it was Arizona’s turn, with the state Senate president confirming that it had received and complied with a grand-jury subpoena for a trove of information from the state’s deeply flawed audit of its 2020 election results.

On Monday, Arizona Republican Senate President Warren Petersen—an election denier who has called for decertifying the 2020 election results—took to X to announce that he had received a grand-jury subpoena for all of its records related to the Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County and happily complied. “The FBI has the records,” Petersen confirmed, including a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post, which also highlighted the FBI’s seizure of Arizona’s records. “Great!!!” the president said.

Isn’t this just another desperate hobbyhorse of Trump’s vendetta against the American voting populace that ushered him out of office in 2020?........

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