The initiative, dubbed “Operation Protect the Vote,” comes in the lead-up to the midterm elections, where the Trump administration is making good on threats to weaponize the Justice Department and other federal entities in its favor over claims of supposed voter fraud. On Tuesday, the federal government sent election officials in Los Angeles County an unverified list of 20,000 people it claims are “likely noncitizens” registered to vote in California. As the New York Post first reported Monday, federal agents used the list to make the more than two dozen targeted arrests on the basis of its voter fraud allegations.
The Justice Department said in its Monday press release that federal law enforcement arrested “11 foreign nationals” against whom it will level criminal charges, including that they “fraudulently registered to vote in U.S. elections, electoral contests in which most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained ballots.”
The 11 arrestees are among 28 people the department officially charged—and all are from its list of 20,000 targets in the election. The press release claims that every person targeted is a legal permanent resident of the US but not a citizen.
Each time he does something like this, he goes a little further, and gets department geads, and people on his side to be a little more complicit. In the hopes that one day he’ll make them all very complicit.
It weeds out the less complicit, too. Amp up the obviously heinous parts, see who shakes out, fill the gaps with the worst folks imaginable, rinse and repeat. Everyone remaining slides more in that direction. Win-win.
There are different people in charge this time around, compared with the first go. Way more capable (clearly evil) people.