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Republicans should not be bullied or duped into the latest inane round of 'pledges' to blindly accept the results of the midterm elections.Trump offers massive reward for tips on voter fraud
The president said anyone who reported voter fraud would be eligible for a million-dollar reward if it led to an arrest and conviction.
President Donald Trump announced the award on his Truth Social account on Monday, just days before the pivotal midterm election day.
'Only I can make this promise to you.'
"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!" he wrote.
"Thank you for your attention to this matter," he added.
It's unclear what the source of the award money would be.
The Trump administration is currently in a legal feud with California officials over a list of people identified as likely "noncitizen" voters registered to vote.
On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused an emergency request from the Department of Justice to force California to segregate mail-in ballots from those on the list.
In September, the president also promised to hand out $5,000 checks as a kind of dividend if Republicans won both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections.
"Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders," he explained.
"Because we've done so well and because our country is making so much money, that only I can make this promise to you," he added.
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Most pundits believe the Republicans will lose control of the House and maybe even lose the Senate as well, though some say that polling may not be capturing an accurate measure of voter sentiment.
The president has long maintained that he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election by voter fraud.
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Mitchell and her national Election Integrity Network have a big target on their back because they are over the target.Arizona man sentenced for threatening to 'execute' Trump — and Kamala Harris
An Arizona man was sentenced to a little more than three years in prison for threatening to "execute" President Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Rene Ortiz of Casa Grande issued the written threats on Election Day in 2024, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.
He wrote that he would shoot 'the incoming fraudulent elected [President of the United States] … at the inauguration on January 20th, 2025.'
The 56-year-old wrote a note asserting that he would "execute the newly elected [President of the United States] by firing an M-16A2 service rifle with a magazine of 6 rounds" and delivered it to the federal courthouse in Phoenix.
That threat was directed at both candidates, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
After Trump won, Ortiz issued another written threat that was delivered to the federal courthouse in Tucson.
In that threat, he wrote that he would shoot "the incoming fraudulent elected [President of the United States] ... at the inauguration on January 20th, 2025."
Ortiz was interviewed by U.S. Secret Service, and he reiterated his intent to attack the president.
He was arrested on Jan. 17, 2025, before the presidential inauguration.
Ortiz was convicted by a federal jury on June 8 and was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee on Tuesday.
More recently, a 24-year-old man named Jaden Read was arrested after posting on social media that he would kill the president when he visited Kansas.
"Let's shoot Trump honestly, where's our shooter? I’m tired of living this money life," Read allegedly wrote in Facebook comments.
"Can we shoot him in Kansas please I will myself," he allegedly wrote in another comment.
"[I know] where your speech will be. Already mapped out roofs around," he added.
He was arrested in Clearwater, Kansas, on Saturday.
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Trump endorses controversial Ramaswamy ad — and bashes media trying to force him to take video down
President Donald Trump issued an unequivocal endorsement of the controversial political video advertisement from Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.
The ad features the mother of his opponent for the gubernatorial race in Ohio calling her a liar and asking Ohioans not to vote for her.
'That took a lot of courage to do but, essentially, what she was really doing was saving Ohio from making a truly horrible choice!'
Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate, excoriated Ramaswamy for using her mother in an ad after Acton suffered sexual abuse by her mother's partner when she was a child.
Various Republicans have called on Ramaswamy to take the ad down, but the president is not one of them.
"Vivek Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Amy Acton, who is running for Governor of Ohio, is a liar, and much worse," Trump wrote in a post on social media Thursday.
"The Press, in a concerted and well coordinated attack, is trying to get Vivek Ramaswamy to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about a daughter in that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving in Office, let alone the Office of Governor," he added.
He went on to fully endorse Ramaswamy leaving the ad up.
"I only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave as to come forward and explain that their son or daughter is a liar, and much worse," he added. "That took a lot of courage to do but, essentially, what she was really doing was saving Ohio from making a truly horrible choice! The Press is trying to convince everyone that this Ad is bad, because it's so good!"
Among the more prominent Republicans calling for the ad to be taken down was Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R).
"The ad, on its face, is deeply, deeply troubling. But when you know the rest of the story, when you know the backstory, when you know that the husband of the mom was indicted by a grand jury after hearing testimony, and that he took off along with the mother," DeWine said to reporters.
"When you know that, it just, to me, makes it more serious. It makes it just more wrong. So it's wrong to run this ad ... I would just urge the Ramaswamy campaign to take this down," he added.
On the other hand, Vice President JD Vance excoriated Republicans for criticizing Ramaswamy.
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Acton was 12 years old when her biological father reported her stepfather to police over allegations that he had raped Acton for a period of time, beginning December 1976 and ending April 1978.
Acton's stepfather, Cledith Arthur, pleaded not guilty and then failed to appear in court before becoming a fugitive from the law. He died in 2004.
The Rooster political blog first shared the ad, but the Ramaswamy campaign took responsibility for the video Tuesday and indicated it had plans to spend $4 million to promote the ad.
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