FBI reportedly seeking Milwaukee cops for 2020 election probe

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to interview members of the Milwaukee Police Department as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing probe of 2020’s presidential election results, according to a local news outlet. 

WISN 12 News reports that FBI agents are looking to question police officers who were around on Election Night in 2020 at polling sites and a central ballot counting location in Milwaukee. 

FBI agents have been seeking to question election officials from across the city, county, and state of Wisconsin, as part of President Donald Trump’s relentless quest to convince the public that the 2020 election was stolen. However, several investigations and audits of that year’s vote have already proven that no widespread voter irregularities or fraud happened in Wisconsin.

In early May, an FBI agent met with Wisconsin Elections Commission deputy administrator Robert Kehoe to discuss how elections there are run, during which Kehoe “debunked false claims,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 

More recently, agents sought several Milwaukee city employees and the Milwaukee County elections director to probe them about the 2020 election, which in Wisconsin went for Joe Biden. 

“While we cooperate with all legitimate law enforcement actions, we will defend against any attack on our democracy and will defend the rights of voters of Milwaukee County,” said Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson in a statement.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has criticized the FBI’s interrogations as “outrageous” saying that Trump has been “deploying federal law enforcement to alter reality.”

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has said that while he is not aware of any official FBI investigation on the matter, the state is prepared to defend its employees against false allegations concerning the 2020 election. 

“If they show up, we will be there to make sure that they are asking for what they have access to, but also making sure that they’re not doing what they shouldn’t do,” Evers told WISN 12 News earlier this week.

Meanwhile, U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany (R – WI), who’s running for governor, said this week that he welcomed the FBI investigation, telling reporters, “Whatever they’re searching for, the investigation should be allowed to continue and let’s find out what happened there.”

The FBI is not the only federal authority that’s been poking around Wisconsin. The Department of Justice had also been seeking to obtain the state’s unredacted, private voter registration records – as it has for every state – as part of Trump’s mission to find rampant voter fraud.

However, today a federal judge denied that request, in alignment with similar rulings from judges in seven other states where the DOJ was seeking private voter data, which the federal government is not constitutionally entitled to access.