DOJ Validates Trump's 2020 Election Lies
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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Summary
President Trump is still not over the fact that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, which might be why last Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia. Agents seized hundreds of boxes containing ballots and other documents related to the 2020 election. But this raid is just one of many ways the President has challenged the American election system since taking office a year ago. With the midterms just months away, we spoke with Marc Elias, the founder of the voting rights news and election-tracking site Democracy Docket.
And in headlines, the government is partially shut down as Congress debates reining in immigration enforcement, the Trump administration does damage control after the latest and largest batch of Epstein files, and the five-year-old boy and father detained by immigration officers in Minnesota have been released.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 2nd. I'm Jane Coastin, and this is what a day. |
| 0:06.8 | The show that hopes the release of two black journalists over the weekend, former CNN host Don Lemon, |
| 0:12.2 | and Minnesota reporter Georgia Forch, is a sign of better things to come in Black History Month. |
| 0:18.3 | Both were arrested for covering an anti-ice protest at a church last month. |
| 0:22.4 | Fort told CNN, quote, if they can criminalize a journalist here in Minnesota, whether you're |
| 0:27.0 | independent or not, I think that we've seen a track record where this is just going to continue to |
| 0:31.5 | escalate. In the immortal words of my late grandmother, Mm-hmm. On today's show, here we are again. The government is |
| 0:46.7 | partially shut down. This time, Congress debates reigning in immigration enforcement. And a massive |
| 0:52.3 | trove of Epstein files traps. It's shady as hell and |
| 0:55.7 | probably nothing will happen. But let's start with elections. Texas was a site of two big |
| 1:01.1 | Democratic wins this weekend. First, Christian Meneffy won the state's 18th Congressional District |
| 1:05.8 | on Saturday, winnowing down the Republican majority in the U.S. House to just four seats. |
| 1:10.7 | Then in Tarrant County, Democrat and Air Force veteran, Taylor Romet, pulled off a 14-plus |
| 1:16.6 | point victory in a state Senate special election, taking a district President Donald Trump won |
| 1:21.3 | by 17 points in 2024. It's that second race that attracted Trump's attention. He posted |
| 1:27.1 | about it multiple times on true social before the election, demanding, quote, |
| 1:31.4 | all America First Patriots in Texas's ninth state Senate district vote for the Republican candidate. |
| 1:37.4 | But I guess all the America First Patriots in Texas's ninth state Senate district were busy. |
| 1:42.9 | And anyway, Trump made it very clear at Marala-Lago on Sunday that he actually didn't care |
| 1:46.9 | about or know anything about that race. |
| 1:49.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:50.0 | I didn't hear about it. |
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