Feds pursuing 'multiple' election fraud investigations, top prosecutor says - BERITAJA

First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said Friday his agency “has aggregate predetermination fraud investigations underway,” successful coordination pinch the FBI successful Los Angeles.

Essayli’s remarks, posted to X, seemed to beryllium successful consequence to President Trump alleging successful his ain societal media post precocious Wednesday that Democrats successful California were “cheating” successful the state’s superior election, and that location was an investigation underway successful Essayli’s office.

Democratic officials firmly rejected Trump’s claims of cheating, which they had warned he would make successful beforehand of the predetermination fixed his agelong grounds of objecting to and claiming fraud successful elections he and his statement lose.

Trump provided nary grounds for his claims, different than to kick about California taking a agelong clip to count ballots and criticizing its message ballot system, suggesting it was a root of fraud. California officials person acknowledged the process takes longer than they would like, but said that is simply a consequence of a careful, meticulous count of millions of ballots, galore of which were mailed connected predetermination day.

“Taking the clip to do this activity correctly protects voters’ authorities and ensures the integrity of our elections,” California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said Thursday. “California has built a beardown strategy that expands access, empowers voters, and ensures much Californians could afloat participate successful our democracy.”

Essayli — a Trump loyalist the management has kept successful complaint of 1 of the country’s largest national prosecutor’s offices through a ineligible loophole, and contempt his failing to beryllium confirmed by the Senate — besides provided fewer specifications successful his Friday post, saying he would not remark “on immoderate circumstantial investigation.”

He said that protecting California’s elections is “a apical priority” for his office, and that “California’s predetermination strategy has superior structural vulnerabilities.”