President Donald Trump announced last week that he is disbanding the controversial commission studying alleged voter fraud that faced resistance from states claiming overreach and became embroiled in multiple federal lawsuits.
The president said he now will move the voter ID probe of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to the Department of Homeland Security “to review its initial findings and determine next courses of action.”
The irony in this is rich.
The same president who labels as a “hoax” the Russian meddling in our 2016 presidential election – swinging support with fake news to him and hacking into dozens of our state election systems – instead created this panel to prove his own false claims that he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton because of millions of illegally cast ballots.
Trump’s administration for nearly a year has done nothing to probe or counter Russian cyber meddling, but wasted thousands or more in taxpayer dollars in this Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, led by conspiracy theorist and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.