Elections attorney Cleta Mitchell on Wednesday reacted to the Department of Justice subpoenaing the Fulton County board of elections for records of people who worked in the 2020 election and handled ballots. On Steve Bannon’s “WarRoom” podcast, Mitchell said Georgia officials, including Republicans, were part of the improper handling of ballots in Fulton County.
“This is something the Justice Department of the United States of America should have done immediately in January of 2021. And they didn’t do it. And now it’s being reconstructed five years later,” Mitchell said about the new investigation launched by U.S. Attorney Dan Bishop.
CLETA MITCHELL, CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE, ATTORNEY: Well, on April 17th, Dan Bishop, who’s the U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of North Carolina, who has now been assigned by Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice to be responsible. He’s taking over the election integrity investigation of 2020, taking over the Georgia case where the FBI issued a search warrant and went in and, well, the FBI didn’t issue it, but the magistrate issued the FBI search warrant and they seized all the ballots and records.
On April 17th, we learned this week that Dan Bishop as the U.S. Attorney, along with the U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, issued a subpoena, a grand jury subpoena to the Fulton County Board of Registration Elections, that group of geniuses that run the Fulton County elections, and asking for the roster and names and contact information for everyone who worked in specific capacities in the 2020 election in Fulton County. And let me just quickly tell you what people, first of all, everybody, they want the rosters of everybody, contractors, employees, and also volunteers who worked on, if you were assigned to review mail-in ballots, assigned to review to the voter review and panel, that’s where they look at the ballots and absentee ballots and adjudicate to say, I think this person wanted to vote for Joe Biden.
That’s what they always decided. Assigned to the mobile voting locations, anyone assigned to transfer results to or from media or to transport ballots or ballot stock, anybody who was contracted or employed, everybody who was contracted or employed by Fulton County, anybody who worked or volunteered on election day, who were assigned to review or tabulate ballots, anyone who worked or volunteered for the risk limiting audit, anybody who worked or volunteered for the recount, and anyone who served as a precinct manager, assistant manager. And just a couple of things I’ll point out about this. If you are a precinct manager, assistant manager, you’re supposed to sign the poll tapes, the tabulation tapes.
You have to confirm that the tabulator was set at zero at the beginning, and you have to then look at the numbers at the end, put that down on the form, and assigned by the precinct manager and assistant manager. You know there are 390 precincts where there were no signatures whatsoever. So we know that that was a mess.
They’re going to now go in. They’re trying to get the names to be able to go in and say, okay, you were the precinct manager at such and such polling location. Did you even see the poll tape, the tabulator tape?
Why didn’t you sign it? And they’re going to get to go in and find out if they were reviewing the processing, the absentee ballots. Did you look at what did you do to confirm the signature was accurate?
Did you, if they’re going to get the list of the ACLU attorneys that Brad Raffensperger put into counties all over the state to teach them how to not verify signatures. I mean, this is a really great move, and of course the only way we know about this, because stranger subpoenas are secret, is that, of course, the Fulton County Board of Elections has filed an action and motion to quash this subpoena, and they attach the subpoena to their motion. That’s how we know they did it.
BANNON: But, Cleta, this has to be sending shockwaves down here real quickly. Go back through the categories of who they’re calling in. I mean, and Dan Bishop is a serious guy. Dan Bishop is such a serious guy. I mean, if he’s doing this, this is beyond real. So just give me the categories.
MITCHELL: Okay, just one more time. It’s everybody who was paid by the Fulton County Election Board, whether you were a contractor. Remember, they hired these temporary firms, so one owned by Stacey Abrams, by the way.
So anybody paid as an employee or a contractor, and anyone, whether you’re paid or volunteer to review mail-in ballots, if you were part of the voter review board, if you were part of the mobile voting locations, I mean, all these names, they want names and contact information. If anybody was responsible for delivering ballots and ballot materials, say from the polling places to the county and that kind of thing, anybody who worked on Election Day, who was assigned to review or tabulate ballots, that would include everybody at State Farm Arena, by the way, anybody who worked or volunteered for the risk-limiting audit. Remember that we know that there were screwy things with that audit.
Individuals who worked or volunteered for the recap. Now, remember, we know that people forged and put the wrong information on those batch reports. They might say on the batch report that every batch is 100 ballots. They might have written down that Joe Biden received 100 votes, which they did. We have the records. We see those batch reports.
Then you look behind and start counting the ballots, and what you see is that Biden didn’t get 100, and everybody else got zero. You know, Trump got some, the Green Party got some, and that we have several, many of those. Who signed that? Who wrote that? They want the names of everybody who worked on that recount and will find the people who falsified those reports. And anybody who served as a precinct manager or assistant manager. So to find out what happened and why those tabulator tapes weren’t signed. It’s a really brilliant move. And of course, I’m sure that, well, they are. They’re just, their hair is on fire to think that somebody would dare to ask the, who is actually working on the election.
BANNON: I just want to re-emphasize. So you got Dan Bishop. This is a criminal grand jury, correct? They’re not calling people in there because of some civil thing or that this is a criminal grand jury. They are investigating federal crimes, correct ma’am?
MITCHELL: That is what they are charged with doing. Yes. You know, that we used to have, there still exists, but it’s basically been depopulated the office of public integrity and at the Department of Justice. And it was their responsibility to investigate election crimes and to prosecute election crimes. But of course, that is the office that Jack Smith came from. And that office became a hotbed of left-wing activism.
So the Justice Department under President Trump, they’ve decided to vest the responsibility for prosecuting those election crimes in one U.S. attorney. And that is Dan Bishop. That’s who they’ve selected. And so I know that he is working on building up the capacity. And he stepped into this after the search warrant was issued, after all the records and ballots were seized. And so he’s trying to piece together everything that happened in 2020.
And I think that this move to talk not just to the people at the top, not to the people who ran the scheme and covered it up for five years, but to talk to the people on the ground who are actually doing the work. And nobody’s ever talked to them. I’ll tell you what this does show, Steve, this just demonstrates that it was intentional and that there was never any investigation.
This is something the Justice Department of the United States of America should have done immediately in January of 2021. And they didn’t do it. And now it’s being reconstructed five years later. That really is irritating that it wasn’t done before.
BANNON: It’s irritating. It’s not done before, but the Justice Department was illegitimate, right, under Merrick Garland? Why are we Dan Bishop and a federal grant criminal grand jury, we’re doing that. Why, you know, Merrick Garland wasn’t going to do this because it exposed how they got in office illegally as an illegitimate regime. How, why didn’t Brian Kemp and all these big shots down in Georgia lift a finger on this exact topic for years, ma’am?
MITCHELL: Because they were part of the steel. They were part of it. Yeah. Brian Kemp would not lift a finger when we brought Brad Raffensperger wouldn’t lift a finger. Chris Carr wouldn’t lift a finger. All of these constitutional offers, Jeff Duncan, who was lieutenant governor at the time, he was out on CNN every day, attacking Trump after the election.
And, you know, you have people down there that they were, they wanted Trump not to be elected, to be reelected. And then Brian Kemp, a couple of people took to him this data about these problems where you have fake, you have votes, votes, but there are no people associated with those votes. And, uh, and he could have that moment, that moment he could have, and even his staff confirmed it. They sent a complaint over to the state election board about a year later. Uh, and after the, in 2021, early 2022 saying investigate this, he couldn’t have the governor has the authority to refer anything to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
BANNON: And he didn’t do it. You’re implying the Raffensperger and Duncan and Kemp are going to be rolled up in this criminal investigation. Is that your implication? So let’s just say it. Do you believe that?
MITCHELL: No, I don’t know that. I don’t know, because the thing about it is I know, I know
BANNON: Hang on. If they knew there was this information, they didn’t turn it over to be investigated. That’s a crime. That’s absolutely a crime. A government official, a government official that saw information that led to a massive stealing of a federal election for the presidency and looked the other way and buried it. You don’t think that’s a crime?
MITCHELL: Well, I think that the things that Brad Raffensperger did in advance of the election, I don’t know. I don’t know what they’re criminal, Steve. I mean, that’s the problem that we, you know, we need, we need more.
We need the facts of it. I know that he covered everything up, but we found out after the election that he had all these ACLU people that he brought in. We found out after the election, and some of this we found out a year, two years later, about how all of these batches, these batch reports were just wrong.
They’re deliberate. That’s not an accident. Somebody doesn’t say on a batch report, here are the results of this batch and put 100 for Joe Biden, zero for anybody else.
BANNON: That’s an action. That’s an act of commission.
MITCHELL: That’s intentional.
BANNON: I know, but he was accountable. Anyway, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll find out, but Dan Bishop bought a call in Kemp. Y’all call him the Raffensperger, Duncan, all of them, Raffensperger’s mini me, that guy, bring them all in, right? That whole Rogue’s gallery. And they ought to start, they ought to start with Kemp.
MITCHELL: Vote against these people.
BANNON: Of course we’re going to vote against them. They got to be held accountable in a criminal court. What they did was crimes down there. Cause they wanted Trump gone in. Just, Hey, let’s get him in front of a grand jury and we’ll see. Cleta, where do people go?
MITCHELL: The only thing that’s great about this is remember when you’re doing a best criminal investigation, they start with the small people, the people, and then they work their way out. That’s why they’re so brilliant.
BANNON: Because they’re going to flip those. They’re going to tell these clerks, Hey, you’re going to spend eight years in a federal prison unless you cough up exactly what happened here. And you’re going to see them. You’re going to see them. You’re going to see them chirping. Where do people go, ma’am?
MITCHELL: @CletaMitchell on X .
