Request for records related to election audit appears latest part of Trump effort to spread false claims about voting
A federal grand jury subpoenaed Arizona’s legislature for records related the state senate’s widely criticized review of the 2020 election, the state senate president said on Monday, in what appears to be the latest part of the Trump administration’s efforts to spread false claims about the 2020 election and voting in the United States.
Warren Petersen, the president of the Arizona state senate, confirmed on X on Monday the legislature had received a subpoena related to records of its review of the election results in Maricopa county, the most populous in the state. He added that “the FBI has the records”.
Peterson’s comment came after Donald Trump posted an article from the Trump-friendly outlet Just the News about the subpoena and said: “Great!!!”
It is not immediately clear what information was sought in the subpoena and what was turned over. “President Petersen does not have anything to add outside of his X post at this time,” said Kim Quintero, a Petersen spokesperson.
