Get you up to speed: Election denier Kurt Olsen has resigned from DOJ, sources say
Kurt Olsen, a former attorney focused on overturning the 2020 election results, has resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. His departure comes as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged conspiracies involving officials from the Obama and Biden administrations.
Kurt Olsen’s resignation from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida leaves the grand conspiracy investigation without key personnel, although two new former prosecutors have been hired to join the team. The investigation into the alleged attempts to undermine the 2020 election results remains ongoing, with no charges filed to date.
Kurt Olsen has resigned from the Justice Department, following internal tensions, with the Justice Department hiring two new former prosecutors to join the ongoing investigation team. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida continues to pursue the “grand conspiracy” investigation, which remains unresolved.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain how the recent departures of Kurt Olsen and other attorneys will impact the ongoing grand conspiracy investigation.
Kurt Olsen resigns from the Justice Department amid 2020 election inquiries
Kurt Olsen, an election denier who attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of President Trump, has resigned from the Justice Department, sources familiar with his departure told WTX US News on Monday.
Olsen had been assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, where he was working on the “grand conspiracy” investigation targeting Obama- and Biden-era officials, which has so far not resulted in any charges.
WTX US News has asked Olsen for comment.
Earlier this month, Joe diGenova, the prosecutor who was tapped by Attorney General Todd Blanche, also resigned amid tensions with senior Justice Department officials over how the cases were being managed and their pace.
Olsen was previously working out of the White House as a “Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity,” the FBI said. In 2020, Olsen was an attorney working with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to urge the Supreme Court to overturn the election results.
WTX US News reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
In 2022, Olsen was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 select committee, which was investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election. The subpoena alleged that Olsen “contacted various high-level officials at the Department of Justice” at the president’s direction to discuss filing challenges to the election results. The committee said Olsen spoke multiple times with Mr. Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.
Olsen made the Fulton County election case referral to the FBI, prompting agents to execute a search warrant earlier this year. They seized dozens of boxes of ballots and other materials from the 2020 election, an FBI affidavit revealed.
Olsen has also made several other 2020 election-related referrals to the Justice Department, according to a source with direct knowledge.
WTX US News has previously reported that law enforcement veterans have been expressing deep concerns that the Trump Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Brennan and others is being systematically stacked with politically motivated personnel who are intent on a partisan indictment.
Olsen is one of several prosecutors in recent days to leave the team working on the grand conspiracy case, several sources said.
One of those sources, however, said that some of the attorneys who came in from out of state were working there on a temporary basis and that those assignments had come to an end, and those attorneys are returning to their home offices. The Justice Department has since hired two new former prosecutors to join the investigative team, a source added.