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President Donald Trump has a new plan to fight voter fraud: throw a whole bunch of money at Americans who help his administration find it.
The president announced in a Monday post on Truth Social he is offering a $1 million reward to anyone who reports voter fraud, once the suspected culprit is successfully charged.
Trump posted:
Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
The lucrative bounty comes as Trump has made cracking down on suspected voter fraud a key focus this year.
Last week, the Justice Department charged 28 green card holders in California with voter fraud, with the feds alleging the alleged fraudsters illegally registered to vote and that “most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained ballots.”
“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said. “Each of the 28 defendants charged today appears on the list of more than 20,000 likely noncitizen registrants we provided to California election officials last week. California refused to look at that list. Today’s charges show exactly what that refusal puts at risk. California must verify the citizenship of those more than 20,000 registrants before mail-in ballots are counted.”
Those arrests came shortly after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) bashed the Trump administration’s “sad” attempt to “use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters.” Newsom said the push should “scare the hell out of every American.”
The arrests also followed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin accusing four Democrat-run states of having 250,000 “non-citizens” registered to vote back in July.
Mullin said a DHS review found the quarter million bogus registrations were found in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania — all states with Democratic governors. The DHS boss called for the states to review their records ASAP, and threatened state election officials with being thrown in the clink if they did not help the federal government crackdown on illegal voters.
A few day later, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) revealed a “serious software error” led to thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote.
The DHS later acknowledged in August that its 250,000 figure was inflated. CBS News also reported the DHS estimate was based on an “analysis of commercial databases,” which it said were “likely to lead to false positives, significantly overestimating the number of potential noncitizens on voter rolls.”
Beyond Newsom, some Republicans have been critical of Trump’s push to weed out illegal voters too.
Matt Crane, who is the head of the Colorado County Clerks Association, told 60 Minutes on Sunday night he was upset Trump has been spreading “disinformation and lies” about election security.
“And you are a Republican,” correspondent Bill Whitaker chimed in.
Crane confirmed he was and said, “This is not a partisan issue.”
Watch his interview via the clip above.
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