Trump is taking election integrity seriously after what happened in 2020.
Democrats and their media allies are losing their minds over it.
And Trump made one move with the CIA that has the Deep State in full meltdown.
Trump orders spy agencies to hand over 2020 election intelligence
President Trump directed the CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies to turn over classified materials about the 2020 election to Kurt Olsen.
Olsen is the lawyer who led Stop the Steal efforts and helped Trump challenge Biden's victory.
Sources inside the intelligence community leaked the directive to Politico and NBC News with barely concealed alarm.
The way the media reported this tells you everything about their terror levels.
NBC News described Olsen as someone "who more than five years ago took part in the 'Stop the Steal' campaign that promoted baseless claims of widespread voter fraud."
Politico went even harder, calling him Trump's "former campaign lawyer, known for pushing debunked theories of electoral fraud."
That's media code for "we're terrified of what he might find."
The CIA confirmed Trump's order in a statement dripping with damage control.
"The president has asked Mr. Olsen to look at intelligence related to the 2020 election and the agency is ensuring that he has the access necessary to do his work," a CIA official told NBC.
The White House backed Trump's authority without apology.
"President Trump has the authority to provide access to classified material to individuals as he deems necessary," the White House stated. "The entire Trump administration is working together to ensure the integrity of U.S. elections."
Trump hired Olsen in October 2025 as a special government employee to investigate 2020.
He's been given access to some of the most highly classified intelligence programs the government possesses.
That includes sensitive compartmented information that normally requires decades of intelligence experience to handle..
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Deep State insiders sound the alarm on Olsen investigation
Four people with knowledge of the arrangement told reporters that Olsen is reviewing materials from the CIA, NSA, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI, and Department of Justice.
He's made multiple trips to intelligence agency headquarters.
Olsen has particularly close contact with Andrew Bailey, the FBI's deputy director, and Tim Kosiba, the NSA's deputy director.
Here's what really has the bureaucracy sweating – Olsen calls Trump directly whenever he hits a roadblock.
"Every time he hits a roadblock, he just calls POTUS," one source told Politico.
Trump immediately clears the obstruction.
Even Trump allies inside the administration are raising eyebrows at Olsen's access.
"This guy has no background" in intelligence, a close supposed Trump ally fumed to Politico.
The anonymous source worried Olsen "will find some super classified report, say it's evidence of fraud, but really it's just completely out of context."
That concern reveals the game Democrats are playing.
They're not worried Olsen will misinterpret intelligence.
They're worried he'll interpret it correctly and expose what the intelligence community knew about 2020 irregularities but never disclosed.
Olsen's background makes him the perfect person to drive the establishment crazy.
After the 2020 election, he advised Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on the Supreme Court lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's results.
He tried repeatedly to get Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to file federal complaints about the election.
When DOJ officials wouldn't take his calls, Olsen drove to Washington and showed up at Rosen's office demanding a meeting.
Phone records show Olsen spoke with Trump multiple times on January 6, 2021, including twice after rioters entered the Capitol.
In 2022, Olsen represented Kari Lake in her challenge to Arizona's gubernatorial election.
The Arizona Supreme Court sanctioned him for making what judges called "false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions."
Democrats point to that sanction as proof Olsen can't be trusted.
Conservatives see it as proof the courts refused to seriously examine election irregularities.
Special government employees can only work 130 days in any 365-day period.
That means Olsen's time could end soon unless Trump finds another way to keep him investigating.
FBI raid on Georgia followed Olsen's criminal referral
The freakout over Olsen intensified after FBI documents revealed he initiated the Fulton County, Georgia ballot seizure.
On January 28, FBI agents raided Fulton County's election warehouse and seized approximately 700 boxes of 2020 ballots.
The affidavit unsealed this week shows the raid "originated from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity."
FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans wrote that investigators are examining whether election officials knowingly violated federal law.
The affidavit cites five categories of problems Fulton County admitted exist.
County officials acknowledged they lack scanned images of all 528,777 ballots counted during the initial count.
They also confirmed ballots were scanned multiple times during Georgia's recount.
During the Risk Limiting Audit, hand counters reported vote totals for batches that didn't match actual votes inside those batches.
Georgia Secretary of State investigators confirmed the inaccurate batch tallies.
Biden officially won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes.
Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is having a meltdown.
"The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election," Warner fumed.
He questioned why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showed up at the Fulton County raid since there was "no foreign intelligence nexus."
Warner's hysteria gives away the Democrats' real concern.
They're terrified Trump is using federal law enforcement to investigate what actually happened in 2020 swing states.
And they're even more terrified about what that means for 2026 and beyond.
Fulton County officials admitted in December 2025 that they failed to properly verify 315,000 votes in 2020 by not signing tabulator tapes as required by Georgia law.
County attorney Ann Brumbaugh told the state elections board the unsigned tapes accounted for nearly every early ballot cast before Election Day.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger dismissed it as a "clerical error."
Conservative watchdog Garland Favorito wasn't buying it.
"A clerical error could be one tabulator tape not signed or one tabulator tape missing," Favorito told local news. "Not 148 tabulator tapes missing."
For six years, Fulton County fought to prevent release of its 2020 ballots.
The DOJ subpoenaed the ballots in October but the county ignored the request.
After Brumbaugh's December admission, DOJ sued under the Civil Rights Act.
Now federal agents have the ballots and Olsen has access to intelligence about what happened.
The Washington establishment is in full meltdown because Trump isn't backing down.
He's using every tool of presidential authority to get answers about 2020.
And he's doing it with a lawyer the Deep State can't control because Olsen's loyalty is to Trump and the truth, not the intelligence bureaucracy.
Democrats spent years saying anyone who questioned 2020 was undermining democracy.
Now Trump is investigating those questions with the full power of the federal government behind him.
That's why anonymous Deep State sources are scampering to the media in desperation.
They know what Olsen might find with access to classified information about foreign interference, ballot chain of custody issues, and electronic voting vulnerabilities.
The hysteria tells you everything you need to know about what they're afraid he'll discover.
Sources:
- Tyler Durden, "Panic Ensues After Trump Orders CIA to Give 2020 Election Intel to 'Stop the Steal' Lawyer," Zero Hedge via America First Report, February 11, 2026.
- Dan De Luce, "Trump instructs spy agencies to provide intelligence to his 'Stop the Steal' lawyer," NBC News, February 10, 2026.
- Politico, "Trump's 'Stop the Steal' lawyer given access to sensitive US intelligence in 2020 election probe," February 10, 2026.
- Just the News, FBI affidavit unsealed regarding Fulton County ballot seizure, February 2026.
- The Daily Beast, "This Pro-Trump Lawyer Was a Rising 'Stop the Steal' Star, His Firm Erased Him," September 2024.
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Olsen," updated February 2026.
- MS NOW, "Kurt Olsen, an election denier, becomes key Trump White House lawyer," February 11, 2026.
- TPM, "Election Denying 'Stop the Steal' Lawyer-Turned-White House Employee Behind Fulton County FBI Raid," February 2026.
