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Donald Trump is continues to claim elections he lost have been rigged. However, he also claims that elections he won were rigged. He is trying to destroy the entire election process and have people lose faith in the very idea of free and fair elections. That gives him a basis for disputing any election whose outcome he disagrees with.
One of his many attempts to sabotage elections is his recent attempt to force Fulton County, GA, to turn over the names, addresses, and telephone numbers for thousands of election workers, presumably to harass them and scare off other people this year from signing up to be election workers. After all, if no one is willing to be a poll worker or drive a mobile voting van, then it won't be possible to hold elections, which is fine with Trump. He can then just rule by fiat.
Unfortunately for Trump, the DoJ's incompetence defeated him. His case for getting the information about the 2020 election workers was immediately thrown out by U.S. District Judge William Ray, one of his own appointees, because the request was made way after the statute of limitations had run out. The judge said the request was "staggering," but said the result might have been different had the suit been filed on time. At least it would have been considered on the merits then.
But it probably wouldn't have won even then. In his ruling, the judge wrote: "Thus, everyone, whether you support the President or you do not, or whether you believe the 2020 Election was fair or believe that it was not, should be concerned about the DoJ's ability to utilize the power of the Grand Jury to appropriate your private information without a legitimate purpose." In effect the judge saw no purpose in the request. After all, grand juries are there to indict people for crimes and the request did not assert any crimes. (V)