The Trump administration has subpoenaed records related to the 2020 election in Arizona’s largest county, the state Senate president said Monday, the latest in a series of steps taken by the president to relitigate an election he lost and bolster the federal government’s authority over elections.
Arizona Senate President Warren Peterson, a Republican, wrote in a Monday afternoon social media post that he “received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County” last week, adding that “The FBI has the records.”
Peterson was responding to a post from President Donald Trump on Truth Social calling the development “Great!!!”
Jason Berry, a spokesperson for Maricopa County, said in a statement the county had not yet received a subpoena but would cooperate if it did.
The move comes just six weeks after the FBI raided an elections office outside Atlanta, seizing records related to the 2020 presidential election, as Trump continues to spread debunked conspiracy theories about voter fraud in that election.
Arizona’s Maricopa County — like Georgia’s Fulton County — has long been a centerpiece of those conspiracy theories, with Republicans alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 election without evidence.
Trump and his allies pushed Republicans in the Arizona state Senate to audit the election in Maricopa County — which former President Joe Biden narrowly carried in 2020 — but the review, like many others, found no proof of substantial fraud.
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