FBI calls for ‘immediate surge’ of personnel to help Fulton County 2020 election probe, sources say

The effort will add 260 personnel in Georgia for a probe of an election President Donald Trump has long alleged was “rigged.”

The FBI has issued a memo requesting all field offices surge a total of over 250 personnel into what it described as a “priority effort” for Director Kash Patel’s office, which two sources familiar with the effort said centers on the investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia.

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