'Beyond crazy': Election official sounds alarm over mysterious message from Trump's FBI

President Donald Trump's administration is now inviting election officials from all 50 states to a conference call later this month, where they will reportedly briefed on plans for this fall's midterm elections.

Crooked Media correspondent Matt Berg reported Thursday on an email sent to state officials overseeing elections from an FBI agent identifying themselves as an "FBI election executive." The email invites states to participate in a February 25 conference call with "your election partners at the FBI, DOJ, DHS, USPIS [U.S. Postal Inspection Service] and the EAC [Election Assistance Commission]" where agencies will discuss "preparations" for the 2026 midterm elections. The email also mentioned a separate March 4 call "for members of the EAC's Local Leadership Council."

Berg noted that the purpose of the call "remains unclear," though noted the email was sent after Trump repeatedly called for the federal government to "nationalize the voting" in a podcast interview with former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Berg wrote that he obtained the email via a public records request.

"I asked the FBI for an explanation, but a spokesperson wouldn’t give me one, writing: 'Thank you for reaching out. The FBI has no comment,'" Berg tweeted.

Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar told Berg that in his three years overseeing Nevada's elections, he had never heard of the FBI organizing a call between state election officials and federal agencies. He felt so unnerved by the message that he replied and asked: "Is this real?"

"I was just like, ‘what is this?’ It’s the strangest thing in the world that the FBI is reaching out to us and trying to coordinate election security," Aguilar said. "It's never happened in the past. The casualness which they did ... it was just beyond crazy."

"They’re just sowing this confusion and chaos to try to intimidate us into compliance," he added.

The Nevada elections chief said he is "constantly preparing and strategizing" for potential interference in the Silver State's 2026 election, and that he is taking Trump's threats seriously.

"ne. “We have to prepare for that litigation at a moment's notice, and we will be prepared in Nevada to push back," he said.

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