The facts
The Trump administration has continued its efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the midterm elections. President Donald Trump announced a $1 million reward for reports of voter fraud, contingent on the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The administration has also asked Washington state to set aside ballots from over 400 individuals alleged to be non-citizens. This marks the third direct state challenge by the justice department this month. Meanwhile, a US federal appeals court rejected the administration's attempt to block California from counting ballots from 20,000 registered voters claimed by the justice department to be non-citizens. Trump's comments follow his repeated, unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
Our take
Donald Trump, a man who couldn’t win the popular vote if it was handed to him in a gold-plated bucket, has decided the only way to salvage his ego is to set a price on the head of American democracy. One million dollars. That’s the going rate for the arrest and conviction of the voter fraud specter he’s been chasing like a senile bloodhound since 2016. It’s a pathetic bounty for a would-be autocrat, the kind of cash you’d offer for a stolen golf cart, not the overthrow of electoral legitimacy. What a cheap, grifting prick.
Meanwhile, his clown-car Justice Department is getting its ass handed to it in court, trying to get ballots tossed from people they ‘claim’ are non-citizens. They just got told to go fuck themselves by a federal appeals court in California, which rejected their attempt to stop 20,000 votes from being counted. These legal Hail Marys are the equivalent of a toddler screaming that the game is rigged because he’s losing at Candy Land. They’re not a strategy; they’re the flailing of a coward who knows his political capital is about as solid as a wet fart.
The sheer, breathtaking vanity of it all. This bloated man-child can’t stand the thought of a election where he’s not the center of the universe, so he’s trying to litigate and bounty-hunt his way into a narrative where he’s always the victim, always the winner. He’s pissing on the foundation of the republic and calling it rain. Every lawsuit, every unsubstantiated claim, is just another desperate attempt to delegitimize a process that might not worship his orange ass. It’s the political equivalent of shitting the bed and then offering a reward to find who put the turds there.
So here we are: the President of the United States is essentially running a GoFundMe for a coup, while his hired legal goons strike out in court trying to silence citizens. It’s a fucking disgrace, a shameless, anti-democratic tantrum thrown with our tax dollars. The only fraud here is the con artist in the Oval Office, and you can’t put a bounty on that. He’s already been arrested by reality, and the conviction of his pathetic legacy is proceeding apace, no reward necessary. What a cunt.
