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Thu Feb 5, 2026, 05:43 PM Thursday

Trump's Plan to Nationalize Elections Using Fabricated Claims of Foreign Interference

Allison Gill

Back in 2020 after losing to Joe Biden, Donald Trump conspired with multiple individuals to overturn the results. There were multiple conspiracies that all failed, leading to his final act of desperation: sending a violent and angry mob to the Capitol to block the certification of the votes.

Jack Smith detailed the multiple conspiracies in his indictment of Donald Trump, his 165-page immunity brief, and his final report Volume I. The conspiracies included Trump’s pressure campaign against state election officials, the fraudulent elector scheme, the weaponization of the Justice Department, and the pressure campaign against Mike Pence. Trump also sued over 60 times and lost.

But there was another conspiracy afoot that Jack Smith outlined as part of the fraudulent elector scheme: fabricated foreign election interference.

Going back to November and December of 2020, Trump tried furiously to seize voting machines in multiple states. He asked the Department of Justice to seize voting machines, but Bill Barr said he didn’t have the authority, nor was there any evidence of election fraud that would justify it.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/trumps-plan-to-nationalize-elections

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