2020 Election Denier Has New Role at DOJ
Kurt Olsen, who helped try to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, is now part of the Justice Department, working on a "grand conspiracy" investigation targeting the president's foes.
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... The Justice Department has placed Kurt Olsen at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, where the Trump ally is part of a probe into a "grand conspiracy." He was previously overseeing election security at the White House, where he made a referral to the Justice Department that resulted in an FBI search of an election hub near Atlanta in January. The group Free Speech For People, a nonprofit founded in 2010 that focuses on free and fair elections and rooting out corruption in government, sent 11 Democratic lawmakers a letter Tuesday morning urging them to seek Olsen's removal from the Justice Department. It wrote that Olsen had "driven efforts to access election systems and documents in Fulton County, Georgia, and Puerto Rico." ...
He was previously overseeing election security at the White House, where he made a referral to the Justice Department that resulted in an FBI search of an election hub near Atlanta in January.
The group Free Speech For People, a nonprofit founded in 2010 that focuses on free and fair elections and rooting out corruption in government, sent 11 Democratic lawmakers a letter Tuesday morning urging them to seek Olsen's removal from the Justice Department.
It wrote that Olsen had "driven efforts to access election systems and documents in Fulton County, Georgia, and Puerto Rico." ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-09 12:55 PM | Reply
I heard he is pushing for the Shaman to be the next Ambassador to the UN.
#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-09 02:16 PM | Reply
@#2
That may not be too far off the mark.
Pres Trump's advisors seem to be pushing him to enable a plan to take over and/or negate the 2026 election.
#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-09 11:13 PM | Reply
Trump's problem is that we all watched, in real time, his insurrectionist mob try to overturn a free and fair election.
#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-10 06:57 AM | Reply
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