Overview
- Mary Trump published a Substack post warning the president’s team is moving beyond rhetoric and is using federal agencies and legal actions to investigate voters and try to prevent some ballots from being counted.
- She cites a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower who described a program that asked minimally trained staff to review lists of suspected ineligible voters, which she says risks error and abuse.
- The Justice Department sued California over more than 20,000 registrations it flagged as likely noncitizens, and an early Los Angeles County review found many of the names were already inactive or canceled.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters he would not categorically rule out circumstances in which the DOJ might try to stop states from certifying results, a comment Mary Trump used to argue federal intervention is possible.
- Current and former national security officials have privately advised states to prepare for possible interference, and Mary Trump urged voters to treat the election as an emergency and turn out because she says the stakes include both political power and financial interests.