Trump is thus preparing the ground to cheat in the elections and, if he loses (which is very likely), to claim they were rigged like he did in 2020-2021. This is standard criminal mafioso Trump deception he learned from his mentor Roy Cohn: Say that your own victims are the criminals, and claim you are their victim. Roy Cohn was a close friend and mentor to Donald Trump who represented him in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit. Cohn served as Trump's primary legal strategist and confidante until Cohn's death in August 1986. Just before his death, Cohn who was formally disbarred for fraud, along with dishonesty, deceit, and misrepresentation in June 1986, when a New York appellate panel revoked his law license after finding he had defrauded a dying client by tricking him into signing a document that named Cohn a co-executor of his estate.
Trump has been using words such as "rigged and stolen," "corrupt" and "cover-up" and cited some recently declassified documents to support his false claims. Critics in both parties say he has never substantiated his central contention that U.S. elections are marred by widespread fraud.
Markey posted: "And when [Trump] sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table," Markey urged.
Trump has lately declared that newly released documents prove that during a period of five years starting during the 2020 election cycle, the Chinese government acquired 220 million U.S. voter files. He is thus pointing the finger at a new "enemy", China, to fool his followers into believing another one of his hoaxes. The fact is that information on U.S. voters is publicly available or can be purchased from states.
Trump said the Chinese government wanted him to lose the 2020 presidential election and that "raw intelligence" obtained by the FBI in 2020 stated that Beijing even attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for former President Biden, who beat Trump in the election.
Markey has previously called for Trump to be removed from office in April when Trump threatened to wipe out the civilization of Iran if its leaders did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "With each passing day, it becomes increasingly apparent that Donald Trump is unstable and a clear and present danger, not just to the American people but to the world. He must be removed from office before he causes incalculable and unfathomable harm," Markey said at the time.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday said President Trump's primetime speech shows that he's not serious about securing elections, pointing to the recent firings of the remaining Democratic members at an independent election administration agency earlier this month.
"There was something called the Elections Assistance Commission. Nobody knows about it, but it works with local registrars, state registrars, making sure we vet voting machines," Warner said during a Sunday appearance on ABC News's "This Week." "Recently, Trump fired all the senior leadership, made the Republican quit, fired the Democrats. You know, this guy is not looking for a secure election because if we have a free and fair election, he and his allies are gonna get beat historically this fall," he added.
Warner has spent months casting doubt on the security of midterm elections, noting the possibility of White House interference. During a Sunday appearance on CBS News's "Face the Nation," the Virginia senator said Trump's Thursday address provided further evidence of a potential obstruction after the president cast doubt on the outcome of campaign races in 2018 and 2020.
"I think that what we just saw was this was the opening shot, the opening shot of trying to undermine Americans' confidence that their vote will be actually counted and mean something," Warner said of Trump's Thursday address.
"I fear as well that if he tries to pull something … he's not ruled out bringing ICE to the polls," he continued, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "He's not even ruled out the idea of trying to bar certain voting machines."
Warner said another point of concern lies in the president's efforts to "dismantle" the Electronic Registration Information Center, which is a nonprofit, bipartisan data-sharing program used by states to securely cross-reference and clean voter registration lists of those who are deceased or who have moved away.
"There are so many absurdities and falsehoods in Trump's Thursday night speech, and I'm glad that most media treated it not as serious news," Warner told CBS News host Margaret Brennan.
Trump has attempted to double down on election security by urging lawmakers to accept the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which has been met with some objection from Republicans coupled with unmatched support.
Meanwhile, The Guardian has published a report about the multiple crises that Trump has deliberately caused, backed by a defunct republican party that has all but become Trump's own personal party.
A man holds a sign at a rally near the White House against US military action in Iran in April 2026.Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
The Guardian cites widespread cuts to vital government agencies and shrinking of the federal workforce, various disease and illness outbreaks left unattended (nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness that can cause "explosive" diarrhea), and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities by rolling back environmental protections and refusing to acknowledge climate crisis. Trump has also slashed funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions.
Election security
Trump's zeal to downsize the federal government has spared few corners. Despite his professed concerns with election security – articulated on Thursday night in a conspiracy-laden attack on US democracy – his administration has dramatically weakened the offices intended to safeguard US elections.
His administration began its time in power by downplaying the significance of Russia's threat of election meddling. His staffing cuts cost the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, which is tasked with countering cyber threats, a third of its workforce, according to Mark Warner, a Democratic senator. The administration has also proposed slashing the agency's budget by $707m in order to address "weaponization and waste".
Earlier this month, Trump ousted the only three commissioners left serving on an independent federal commission that assists states with election administration.
Other agencies that play a role in tracking and countering foreign election meddling have faced cuts too. The FBI has lost as many as 2,800 agents since January 2025, and when the federal housing official Bill Pulte took over as acting director of national intelligence, he fired dozens of staff members, according to CNN.
On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,500 people convicted or facing charges for the January 6 insurrection, and has also spread conspiracy theories sympathetic to Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk convicted of charges related to breaking security after the 2020 election. The state's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, shortened her sentence earlier this year.
Public health
Trump administration funding cuts have led to a spectrum of worsening outbreaks.
Public health officials in five states, including hard-hit Michigan, were faced with one of the nation's largest outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora this summer, which causes "explosive" and watery diarrhea for weeks. Public health officials said their tracking of the disease was slowed because of a lack of resources. The administration cut $11.4bn in funding from state and local health departments just a year prior, and reduced the remit of a program dedicated to coordinating information on foodborne illnesses, including cyclospora.
Although the source of a five-state outbreak was linked to iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell on Friday, public health officials warned the outbreak could continue through August.
The US is also on course for another record year of measles cases in 2026, surpassing last year, which was itself the worst year for cases in three decades. Some public health officials worry the US is on course to lose its measles elimination status, gained in 2000.
And the outbreak of new world screwworm has caused concern across the ranching and conservation worlds, as the parasitic fly can be a major burden to ranchers and wildlife alike. While some entomologists argue the northern march of the flesh-eating fly was in the making for decades, several former officials told Politico last month that Trump's federal spending reviews slowed efforts to contain the issue. USDA reviews held up funding for the construction of one facility that was crucial in slowing screwworm's impact on the US cattle supply, the officials said, adding that a $100m research initiative meant to create new tools to slow the insect's advance was also delayed.
"We've already seen what happens when Donald Trump's political appointees are put in charge of health and science funding – disaster ensues," said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action, which works to elect scientists to public office. "Screwworm monitoring, food safety surveillance and vaccine programs have been arbitrarily cut and less than a year later, we're facing multiple infectious disease outbreaks. All of this was preventable – but it's no surprise that Americans are getting sicker as Republicans continue to halt research and cut billions in funding for critical programs."
Environmental upheaval
Since re-entering the White House last year, the Trump administration has embarked on a far-reaching assault on environmental protections, rolling back clean air and water standards and promoting fossil fuels. Even as much of the country struggles to breathe as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads over swaths of the US, experts warn of an even grimmer future in which the US grows ever more vulnerable to environmental disasters and toxic exposure.
The administration's efforts to exempt polluting companies from emissions controls – in some cases by simply sending an email – could expose Americans to more unhealthy air. So may its attempts to undercut renewable energy expansion and support the buildout of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Research shows Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda has already helped push up the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the planet and increasing the severity and frequency of wildfires, hurricanes and other environmental disasters. In one particularly audacious move this year, the agency repealed the 2009 endangerment finding, which serves as the legal foundation for all federal climate regulations. The president has also pulled the US from the United Nations' main climate treaty and top climate science body, while slashing funding for climate science.
As they have unmade environmental protections, officials have also shuttered climate and weather research offices, terminated climate science projects and scaled back environmental monitoring. Taken together, the administration's actions could leave Americans facing greater risks while weakening the nation's ability to anticipate and understand them.
Anna Betts contributed reporting
Trump has been using words such as "rigged and stolen," "corrupt" and "cover-up" and cited some recently declassified documents to support his false claims. Critics in both parties say he has never substantiated his central contention that U.S. elections are marred by widespread fraud.
Markey posted: "And when [Trump] sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table," Markey urged.
Trump has lately declared that newly released documents prove that during a period of five years starting during the 2020 election cycle, the Chinese government acquired 220 million U.S. voter files. He is thus pointing the finger at a new "enemy", China, to fool his followers into believing another one of his hoaxes. The fact is that information on U.S. voters is publicly available or can be purchased from states.
Trump said the Chinese government wanted him to lose the 2020 presidential election and that "raw intelligence" obtained by the FBI in 2020 stated that Beijing even attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for former President Biden, who beat Trump in the election.
Markey has previously called for Trump to be removed from office in April when Trump threatened to wipe out the civilization of Iran if its leaders did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "With each passing day, it becomes increasingly apparent that Donald Trump is unstable and a clear and present danger, not just to the American people but to the world. He must be removed from office before he causes incalculable and unfathomable harm," Markey said at the time.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday said President Trump's primetime speech shows that he's not serious about securing elections, pointing to the recent firings of the remaining Democratic members at an independent election administration agency earlier this month.
"There was something called the Elections Assistance Commission. Nobody knows about it, but it works with local registrars, state registrars, making sure we vet voting machines," Warner said during a Sunday appearance on ABC News's "This Week." "Recently, Trump fired all the senior leadership, made the Republican quit, fired the Democrats. You know, this guy is not looking for a secure election because if we have a free and fair election, he and his allies are gonna get beat historically this fall," he added.
Warner has spent months casting doubt on the security of midterm elections, noting the possibility of White House interference. During a Sunday appearance on CBS News's "Face the Nation," the Virginia senator said Trump's Thursday address provided further evidence of a potential obstruction after the president cast doubt on the outcome of campaign races in 2018 and 2020.
"I think that what we just saw was this was the opening shot, the opening shot of trying to undermine Americans' confidence that their vote will be actually counted and mean something," Warner said of Trump's Thursday address.
"I fear as well that if he tries to pull something … he's not ruled out bringing ICE to the polls," he continued, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "He's not even ruled out the idea of trying to bar certain voting machines."
Warner said another point of concern lies in the president's efforts to "dismantle" the Electronic Registration Information Center, which is a nonprofit, bipartisan data-sharing program used by states to securely cross-reference and clean voter registration lists of those who are deceased or who have moved away.
"There are so many absurdities and falsehoods in Trump's Thursday night speech, and I'm glad that most media treated it not as serious news," Warner told CBS News host Margaret Brennan.
Trump has attempted to double down on election security by urging lawmakers to accept the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which has been met with some objection from Republicans coupled with unmatched support.
Meanwhile, The Guardian has published a report about the multiple crises that Trump has deliberately caused, backed by a defunct republican party that has all but become Trump's own personal party.
A man holds a sign at a rally near the White House against US military action in Iran in April 2026.Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
The Guardian cites widespread cuts to vital government agencies and shrinking of the federal workforce, various disease and illness outbreaks left unattended (nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness that can cause "explosive" diarrhea), and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities by rolling back environmental protections and refusing to acknowledge climate crisis. Trump has also slashed funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions.
From The Guardian:
Election security
Trump's zeal to downsize the federal government has spared few corners. Despite his professed concerns with election security – articulated on Thursday night in a conspiracy-laden attack on US democracy – his administration has dramatically weakened the offices intended to safeguard US elections.
His administration began its time in power by downplaying the significance of Russia's threat of election meddling. His staffing cuts cost the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, which is tasked with countering cyber threats, a third of its workforce, according to Mark Warner, a Democratic senator. The administration has also proposed slashing the agency's budget by $707m in order to address "weaponization and waste".
Earlier this month, Trump ousted the only three commissioners left serving on an independent federal commission that assists states with election administration.
Other agencies that play a role in tracking and countering foreign election meddling have faced cuts too. The FBI has lost as many as 2,800 agents since January 2025, and when the federal housing official Bill Pulte took over as acting director of national intelligence, he fired dozens of staff members, according to CNN.
On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,500 people convicted or facing charges for the January 6 insurrection, and has also spread conspiracy theories sympathetic to Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk convicted of charges related to breaking security after the 2020 election. The state's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, shortened her sentence earlier this year.
Public health
Trump administration funding cuts have led to a spectrum of worsening outbreaks.
Public health officials in five states, including hard-hit Michigan, were faced with one of the nation's largest outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora this summer, which causes "explosive" and watery diarrhea for weeks. Public health officials said their tracking of the disease was slowed because of a lack of resources. The administration cut $11.4bn in funding from state and local health departments just a year prior, and reduced the remit of a program dedicated to coordinating information on foodborne illnesses, including cyclospora.
Although the source of a five-state outbreak was linked to iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell on Friday, public health officials warned the outbreak could continue through August.
The US is also on course for another record year of measles cases in 2026, surpassing last year, which was itself the worst year for cases in three decades. Some public health officials worry the US is on course to lose its measles elimination status, gained in 2000.
And the outbreak of new world screwworm has caused concern across the ranching and conservation worlds, as the parasitic fly can be a major burden to ranchers and wildlife alike. While some entomologists argue the northern march of the flesh-eating fly was in the making for decades, several former officials told Politico last month that Trump's federal spending reviews slowed efforts to contain the issue. USDA reviews held up funding for the construction of one facility that was crucial in slowing screwworm's impact on the US cattle supply, the officials said, adding that a $100m research initiative meant to create new tools to slow the insect's advance was also delayed.
"We've already seen what happens when Donald Trump's political appointees are put in charge of health and science funding – disaster ensues," said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action, which works to elect scientists to public office. "Screwworm monitoring, food safety surveillance and vaccine programs have been arbitrarily cut and less than a year later, we're facing multiple infectious disease outbreaks. All of this was preventable – but it's no surprise that Americans are getting sicker as Republicans continue to halt research and cut billions in funding for critical programs."
Environmental upheaval
Since re-entering the White House last year, the Trump administration has embarked on a far-reaching assault on environmental protections, rolling back clean air and water standards and promoting fossil fuels. Even as much of the country struggles to breathe as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads over swaths of the US, experts warn of an even grimmer future in which the US grows ever more vulnerable to environmental disasters and toxic exposure.
The administration's efforts to exempt polluting companies from emissions controls – in some cases by simply sending an email – could expose Americans to more unhealthy air. So may its attempts to undercut renewable energy expansion and support the buildout of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Research shows Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda has already helped push up the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the planet and increasing the severity and frequency of wildfires, hurricanes and other environmental disasters. In one particularly audacious move this year, the agency repealed the 2009 endangerment finding, which serves as the legal foundation for all federal climate regulations. The president has also pulled the US from the United Nations' main climate treaty and top climate science body, while slashing funding for climate science.
As they have unmade environmental protections, officials have also shuttered climate and weather research offices, terminated climate science projects and scaled back environmental monitoring. Taken together, the administration's actions could leave Americans facing greater risks while weakening the nation's ability to anticipate and understand them.
Anna Betts contributed reporting
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