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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Trump was implicated in a vote machine theft. Where is DOJ? - Slate

With a sexual assault verdict, campaign finance and fraud indictment, multiple federal investigations under Special Counsel Jack Smith, and more investigations pending in New York and Georgia, it seems that Donald Trump may finally face accountability for his criminal misconduct. Yet federal investigators appear to be ignoring Trump’s potential involvement in a criminal conspiracy to access and copy voting software systems as part of the broader scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election. As we reported to federal officials last month, testimony suggests that Trump himself was, at a minimum, aware of the unlawful scheme which was discussed with him at an Oval Office meeting with weeks left to go before the Jan. 6 electoral college count.

Over the last two years the scope and breadth of Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election has come into focus, though, this particular piece has been missing from public view. What’s long been clear is that the multipronged plan included pressuring state officials to make unfounded claims of voting irregularities and discard legitimate vote totals; corruptly pressuring the Department of Justice to adopt Trump’s false claims of election fraud; recruiting fake electors to defy the voters’ will; and pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to certify fake electors over the real ones. Most terrifying, Trump incited the violent and deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in an effort to exert even more pressure on Pence and prevent...



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