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Sam Levine in New York

Trump cheers FBI subpoena of Arizona 2020 election records

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Maricopa county ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas. Photograph: Matt York/AP

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”.

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