Trump’s Election Security Chief Is an Election Denier

“One of the more extraordinary aspects of President Trump’s second term is this: Some of the most far-out election conspiracists who helped him spread lies about the 2020 election and then tried to overturn it are now inside the government,” the New York Times reports.

“This dynamic came into focus on Tuesday when an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that the recent criminal investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County had been instigated by Kurt Olsen, a rather prominent character in Mr. Trump’s election denialism movement. Mr. Olsen, who is a lawyer, was considered by people in the first Trump administration to be a fringe menace.”

“In the second Trump administration, he is the director of ‘election security and integrity,’ with the power to refer criminal investigations — criminal investigations into things that have been thoroughly debunked.”