Trump Admin Directed DHS Intel To Pursue Voter Fraud Fantasies Ahead Of 2020 Election
The Trump administrations acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary directed intelligence officials at the Department of Homeland Security in late April 2020 to look into then-President Donald Trumps bogus conspiracy theories about mail-in voting, Politico reports.
A former DHS staffer told Politico that acting Secretary Ken Cuccinelli asked a senior official to have the departments Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) investigate possible widespread election fraud that could arise from mail-in voting despite there being no evidence of said fraud.
Several months later, the I&A headquarters sent a memo to its Field Operations Division that directed officials to probe attempts to alter, destroy, sell, or hide mail-in ballots, according to Politico, which had obtained the memo.
The timing of Cuccinellis reported conversation with the official in late April 2020 is key: At that point, Trump had already begun trying to cast doubt on the legitimacy of voting by mail and more broadly, the legitimacy of the 2020 election results by spreading conspiracy theories of mail-in ballot fraud that the I&A officials had been directed to investigate.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-administration-ken-cuccinelli-dhs-intelligence-investigate-voter-fraud-2020-election
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(7,759 posts)Trump's voter fraud garbage took months to plan and execute...this was no fly-by-night operation.. there was a reason Trump surrounded himself with like-minded amoral assholes... Giuliani doing his damndest to rope in Zelenskyy, Cuccinelli was positing voter fraud scenarios seven months before the election, Barr was questioning the validity of mail-in ballots, DeJoy was crashing the postal service, and Trump was hammering RIGGED ELECTION but only if he lost...I have no doubt the election was rigged but not by Joe Biden...it was rigged by Trump, but all that pre-planned guaranteed win went down the proverbial toilet when the election did not stay rigged...and that why his venomous rage is aimed at all his hand picked fixers and judges he put in place for his humiliating loss...if they had done a better job he'd still be grifting in the Oval Office...