One voting rights advocate said the administration “is abusing the Census Bureau data to generate sensational headlines that Trump wants.”

As he gears up to sow doubt about this year’s midterms, President Donald Trump is once again attempting to use the government to lend legitimacy to his long-debunked claims that he was cheated out of the 2020 election.

In a Tuesday post to Truth Social, Trump shared a report from the US Census Bureau, which he said “proves that over 24,000 Noncitizens voted illegally” after an analysis of 128 million voter records.

“I WON THE ELECTION,” he declared, adding that the bureau would soon analyze the remaining 32 million voting records and that the number of illegitimate votes would “explode.”

The report Trump was referring to was real, but highly unusual. The seven-page document posted on the Census Bureau website did not list any authors.

While the use of the “Census Bureau” label implies an air of seriousness and professionalism, Misty Heggeness, a former senior adviser for the Census Bureau, told Democracy Docket that the lack of clear authorship signified that it was “suspect of any integrity or rigor” and said it would be hard to trust unless career bureau staff put their name on it.

Sure enough, NPR reported on Wednesday that “work on the analysis was not conducted by career civil servants at the Census Bureau, and the team behind it included individuals affiliated with the America First Policy Institute,” a Trump-aligned think tank...

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