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Trump’s election fraud task force is going after the people who investigated him
The Washington Post ^ | October 17, 2026 5:00 a.m. EDT | Isaac Arnsdorf and Perry Stein

Posted on 10/17/2026 11:57:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his demands to see charges against former officials.

The White House task force that President Donald Trump charged with uncovering evidence of election fraud hasn’t produced any. Instead, it has shifted to releasing records that his administration is using to help build a public case against officials who investigated him.

The president initially promoted the task force, led by pro-Trump journalist John Solomon, as part of a push to uncover election fraud.

But more recently, the task force has been releasing law enforcement records from past investigations into Trump, including special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after the end of his first term in early 2021.

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Trump allies and some of his political appointees view those materials as useful evidence in the ongoing Florida-based grand conspiracy case — the Justice Department’s most complex and ambitious effort to indict past administration officials who investigated Trump.

Even with the fanfare...


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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; carlbernstein; comeywapostooges; goafterwapo2; goingaftercorruption; isaacarnsdorf; perrystein; waposedition; washingtoncompost

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People who investigated him without probable cause, it should be added.
1 posted on 10/17/2026 11:57:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why not? They started it.


2 posted on 10/17/2026 11:59:37 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good. The more he goes after, the merrier. It’s not revenge. It’s justice by clearing his name and restoring his honor. I hope he sues them for all they have, and if he can put some people behind bars while he’s at it, all the better.


3 posted on 10/17/2026 12:11:50 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Notice how—once again—the Left would twist the audience sense of accountability and justice into their TDS meme of billionaire PDJT oh-so-unfairly using the levers of government against innocent widdo citizens.

Always working on behalf of criminals the Left is. (-Yoda)


4 posted on 10/17/2026 12:35:26 PM PDT by rx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s the Washington compost after all… and they say that like it’s a bad thing…

My response to them would be “karma is a bitch… And so are paybacks”


5 posted on 10/17/2026 12:35:29 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary )
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To: All

The Biden-tinged Federal Bureau of Investigation was criticized for opening the 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia without sufficient factual basis or a full, rigorous standard of evidence.

Special Counsel John Durham concluded in a 2023 report that the FBI and the Department of Justice rushed to open the full Trump-Russia probe in July 2016 based on raw, uncorroborated, and politically funded intelligence (such as portions of the Steele dossier).

Durham stated the bureau failed to maintain strict fidelity to the law and ignored counter-evidence, though he stopped short of finding a coordinated “deep-state” criminal conspiracy.

The DOJ Inspector General and the Durham report both documented severe procedural failures and mishandled Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap applications targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel Investigation was subsequently appointed in May 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to look into Russian election interference and campaign links.

Mueller’s team did not establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, though it detailed extensive Russian interference and examined multiple instances of potential obstruction of justice.


6 posted on 10/17/2026 12:35:31 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands. " (Psalm 19:1))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not that his enemies investigated him.

It’s all the laws they broke in doing so.


7 posted on 10/17/2026 12:36:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Hillary told me no one is above the law.


8 posted on 10/17/2026 12:44:30 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To paraphrase Willie Sutton’s attributed quip, those now being investigated are so because they are criminals.


9 posted on 10/17/2026 12:45:18 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Until several top Islamocommies are sentenced and branded as felons without probable cause, the former demoncrat party can STFU.


10 posted on 10/17/2026 12:57:19 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And the problem with that is what, oh bottom of the IQ barrel pretend journalists? Need I list N reasons, where N is a big number?


11 posted on 10/17/2026 12:59:33 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: mass55th

“It’s the reckoning”. - Doc Holliday, Tombstone


12 posted on 10/17/2026 1:00:04 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is going to be intolerable during the Republican Presidential primary in 2028.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because they’re guilty of both!


13 posted on 10/17/2026 1:00:26 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We do not adequately despise the fake media.


14 posted on 10/17/2026 1:14:46 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Out of respect for the office, Trump won’t go after Hillary or Obama. Respect for the office is something the democrats don’t care to honor.

Go after the lieutenants who are dumb enough to think they’re safe. Throw the book at them and make the future blind followers think twice. We saw it at Nuremberg.

Iran’s Basij, The Japanese who tortured prisoners, the Adolph Eichmann’s who fled to Argentina. I wanted the Cuban who flew to Hanoi to beat the hell out of John McCain. He’s probably dead now.

In case you’re wondering I believe in karma. It happened with Benito, Ceausescu, Saddam. Khadafy took a broomstick up his ass.


15 posted on 10/17/2026 1:33:37 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s important to expose to the goons what their bosses can no longer do for them.


16 posted on 10/17/2026 1:37:43 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good!


17 posted on 10/17/2026 1:51:37 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the dem fraudsters tried to stop him from preventing their fraud

without fraud the dems will be in the wilderness for a long time


18 posted on 10/17/2026 2:16:00 PM PDT by joshua c (collectivism has many names but the result is the same; the state is primary, the citizen is a slave)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

19 posted on 10/17/2026 2:23:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe those same people were in on the fraud. Hey ya think?


20 posted on 10/17/2026 2:37:54 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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