The Trump administration has reportedly issued a grand jury subpoena seeking records tied to the Arizona Senate’s 2020 audit of election results in Maricopa County, according to Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen.
Petersen confirmed the subpoena Monday in a post on the social platform X, stating that he had already complied with the request and turned over the documents.
“The FBI has the records,” Petersen wrote. “Any other report is fake news.”
His post included a screenshot of a message from President Donald Trump on Truth Social celebrating a news story that claimed the FBI had obtained Maricopa County election records.
The development has revived attention around the contentious debates surrounding the 2020 presidential election and the numerous investigations that followed in its wake. The election results in both Arizona and Georgia have remained particularly controversial, even years later, as legal disputes and inquiries continue to surface.
Officials in Maricopa County, however, indicated they had not yet received any subpoena related to the matter.
Jason Berry, a spokesperson for the county, said in a statement that county officials were not aware of any such request directed at their office but would comply if one were issued.
“Our office has not yet received a subpoena,” Berry said, adding that the county would cooperate if such a request were made.
The FBI has not publicly commented on the matter and did not immediately respond to requests for clarification.
The subpoena quickly drew criticism from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, who accused the Trump administration of misusing federal law enforcement resources.
In a statement, Mayes said the inquiry appeared to be politically motivated rather than a legitimate investigative effort.
“What the Trump administration appears to be pursuing now is not a legitimate law enforcement inquiry,” Mayes said. “It is the weaponization of federal law enforcement in service of crackpots and lies.”
The new development follows other federal actions related to election records from the 2020 vote. Earlier this year, the FBI carried out what officials described as a “court authorized law enforcement action” at the main office of Fulton County, Georgia, in Union City.
According to a county spokesperson, that action was also tied to records connected to the 2020 election.
Weeks before that, the Department of Justice filed a complaint against Fulton County, alleging the county had refused to provide requested records related to the election.
Both Maricopa County in Arizona and Fulton County in Georgia have remained central to disputes surrounding the 2020 results.
President Trump has repeatedly challenged the outcome of that election, asserting that it was “stolen.” Multiple audits and reviews, however, have confirmed President Joe Biden’s victory in both states.
In Arizona, Biden carried Maricopa County by a narrow margin of about two percentage points. The Arizona Senate later commissioned its own independent audit of the county’s election results.
That review ultimately reaffirmed Biden’s win.
Meanwhile, in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched a criminal investigation into attempts to overturn the election results in the state, which Biden also won narrowly.
The investigation later ran into controversy when Willis was disqualified from the case after it was revealed she had a personal relationship with an outside prosecutor she had hired to assist with the probe.
Following that development, the case was ultimately dropped.
The latest subpoena request highlights how disputes over the 2020 election continue to echo through American politics. While officials on different sides of the debate offer sharply different interpretations of these investigations, the ongoing legal maneuvering underscores the enduring political tension surrounding one of the most contested elections in modern U.S. history.
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