WaPo:

President Donald Trump is dialing up pressure on the Justice Department to freshly scrutinize ballots from the 2020 election, raising tensions with administration officials who think their time is better spent examiningvoter lists for future elections.

In recent private meetings, public comments and social media posts, Trump has renewed demands that members of his administration find fraud in the five-year-old defeat that he never accepted. He recently hired at the White House a lawyer who worked on contesting the 2020 results. Administration officials and allies have asked to inspect voting equipment in Colorado and Missouri. Others are seeking mail ballots from Atlanta in 2020, when Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Georgia since 1992.

Across the administration, though, officials have been more focused on forward-looking steps such as examiningstate voter rolls for people who have moved or aren’t citizens. Some officials are ready to move on from 2020 and want to avoid being called “election deniers,”a term for people who claimed without evidence that Trump beat Biden in the 2020 election.

But Trump and some allies inside and outside the administrationwill not let go of allegations of widespread election fraud in 2020even though courts have repeatedly rejected their theories. They argue that future elections can’t be secured without a full accounting of 2020.

“I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much ‘gusto’ as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Oct. 26. “If not, it will happen again, including the upcoming Midterms.”..