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Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has increased the threats of the President of the United States Donald Trump against countries that reject his demands to change the elections.
Mullin’s latest speech on Friday echoed that what Trump said last night: for the administration to follow a strict plan to reorganize the US elections.
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Borrowing time from Trump’s foreign policy, Mullin promised to campaign for “great pressure” to ensure compliance.
He also mentioned what would happen to those who Trump accused of misleading the US people in the 2020 election, which Trump lied about winning.
“This is not about redoing the 2020 election. This is just exposing what happened and making sure it doesn’t happen again,” Mullin said.
He also said his department is looking for people in the intelligence community and former President Joe Biden’s administration as much as possible.
“Anyone who deliberately misled the American people, abused their power and authority and chose not to continue doing their job will be held accountable,” Mullin said.
Increasing international pressure
But while Trump repeatedly claimed there was a “substantial” cover-up of election fraud in Thursday’s opening remarks, documents released by the White House failed to back up his claims.
Like Trump before him, Mullin has singled out four states as targets for immediate action: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada.
All four are considered extreme countries or as safe havens on the left. They are also the most populous states, each with more votes than average in the Electoral College, the system that decides US presidential elections.
The four states combined have 250,000 non-citizens on their voting rolls, according to Mullin, who did not give a reason for the count.
Mullin repeated Trump’s claim that the administration had uncovered about 278,000 foreign nationals who were registered to vote.
There is no indication of how the Trump administration got hold of the demonstration, and experts warn that just because someone registered doesn’t mean they were able to vote.
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States screen voters to determine eligibility for citizenship, and cases of non-citizens are rare.
An analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice, for example, studied 42 administrations during the 2016 election, when Trump won his first presidential election. It found that non-citizen votes accounted for .0001 percent of the vote.
Trump has a long history of refusing to vote. Even in 2016, Trump won the Electoral College votes but lost the popular vote – a fact he tried to falsely explain by saying that millions of people “voted illegally”.
Election experts have strongly criticized claims that non-citizen voting could affect the outcome of US elections.
However, Mullin has threatened to withhold federal funding from states that fail to comply with Trump’s election security requirements.
“We’re going to make our defenses mandatory, which means that if these states want help and they want to be sent back to work or to hold federal elections, they have to implement defenses,” Mullin said.
“Just a security issue. We don’t want to get into anything else, but we’re saying that the machine needs to be secure and that your voter registration list needs to be updated.”
Raising doubts about electronic voting
Trump has long voiced uncertain concerns about the security of electronic voting, pushing instead to roll back the ballot. He has also called for bans on mail-in voting, even though he himself has used such methods to vote.
His administration has repeatedly forced states to hand over their voter names to the federal government. Several federal courts, however, have blocked Trump’s efforts to create a federal voter database.
Additionally, the tool the Trump administration plans to use to compile voter information, the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, has been criticized for mislabeling foreign-born citizens as non-citizens.
However, earlier this month, the Trump administration sent letters to election officials across the country, threatening to prosecute them if non-citizen voters are found in their states.
Critics have accused Trump of seeking to strengthen the electoral process, despite the fact that the US Constitution gives only states the power to organize elections.
Leaders in other countries have already responded to Mr Mullin’s comments and signaled legal action.
“California has free, fair and safe elections and we will fight for them,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said he wrote on his social media feed, linking to Mullin’s Friday video. “Try us.”
Dealing with the media
Mullin, meanwhile, took a look at the major television shows that did not air Trump’s speech on Thursday.
The White House requested access to the address, the details of which were previously classified.
But critics urged the network not to give Trump a platform to say nonsense that could undermine confidence in the 2026 midterm vote.
In the end, companies like ABC, NBC and CNN didn’t air the half-hour talk in full on their main channels, while others like Fox News did — but with a caveat.
Trump used his first term to criticize the movement that came out.
“They and the rest of the media are part of a conspiracy. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want this to continue,” Trump said.
“You cannot have a successful country without free and fair elections. Fraud like this will mean the cancellation of their licenses.”
Mullins echoed the same sentiment when asked about the Trump threat, calling the network “shameful” and implying it was part of the cover-up.
“What are they trying to hide? Why don’t they want to inform the American people? Why are they calling themselves news if they’re not trying to spread the news there?” Mullins asked.
Thursday’s speech was not the first time the Trump administration has threatened to revoke broadcasting licenses for networks it disagrees with. It did this last September, for example, in the middle of a dispute with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
Following Trump’s comments, the only Democratic commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Anna Gomez, went on television to dismiss the threat as unconstitutional.
“The FCC does not have the authority to punish television stations for refusing to broadcast political news. This is an attempt to harass broadcasters, and the FCC should not be involved,” Gomez said. he wrote.
“It’s ridiculous to ask advertisers to revoke their licenses just because they made decisions under presidents of both parties, especially when those words are still available to anyone who wants to watch them online.”
The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides broad protections for free speech and the media.
