Trump calls in to Dan Bongino's first show and insists Republicans must 'take over voting' in 15 places [View all]
Source: The Independent
Monday 02 February 2026 16:22 EST
President Donald Trump suggested that his party should seize control of elections in ‘at least 15 places’ and brazenly repeated a number of blatant lies about his electoral history in Minnesota and Georgia during a Monday phone interview with a right-wing podcaster who briefly served in a top FBI role last year.
Trump, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 election despite having lost to successor-turned-predecessor Joe Biden by wide margins in both the popular and electoral vote, spoke to podcaster Dan Bongino to mark the return of his eponymous show after serving less than a year as the FBI’s Deputy Director.
At one point during the madcap interview, Trump began espousing a racist conspiracy theory which posits that Democrats’ opposition to harsh anti-immigration measures is part of a deliberate effort to pack voter rolls with people who are not in the country legally despite the fact that non-citizens are not permitted to vote and almost never attempt to do so.
The president claimed that the Biden administration’s reversal of border policies instituted during his first term was meant to bolster the Democratic Party’s fortunes at the polls and argued that Republicans in Congress should respond by taking control of elections in Democratic-run jurisdictions even though the U.S. Constitution specifically allocates that responsibility to state and local governments rather than the federal government.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bongino-podcast-republicans-voting-b2912544.html?test_group=lighteradlayout
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