BREAKING: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reveals Donald Trump’s sinister “sore loser” plan after yesterday’s blue wave

BREAKING: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reveals Donald Trump’s sinister “sore loser” plan after yesterday’s blue wave

After a shocking day of massive Republican losses in the off-year elections, Donald Trump is once again proving that when democracy wins, he’ll do everything he can to drag it down with him. This time, the former reality-TV host turned authoritarian wannabe is reportedly readying a new executive order to attack voting rights — especially mail-in ballots — based on, you guessed it, absolutely nothing.

In a press briefing today, Leavitt announced that the White House is working on an executive order “to strengthen our elections in this country and to ensure that there cannot be blatant fraud, as we’ve seen in California with their universal mail-in voting system.” Reuters+2Anadolu Ajansı+2

The proposed order is particularly targeted at California, where a ballot initiative authorizing a retaliatory congressional-redistricting measure — in response to Trump-inspired redistricting in Texas — passed by an overwhelming margin.

In typical sore-loser fashion, Leavitt claimed at the press conference that the ballot measure’s success only came because of fraudulent votes by ineligible non-citizens in a rigged election. She asserted: “Fraudulent ballots that are being mailed in, in the names of other people, in the names of illegal aliens who shouldn’t be voting in American elections. There’s countless examples, and we’d be happy to provide them.” Democracy Docket+2Democracy Docket+2

When a reporter asked for hard evidence of “rampant fraud” in California, Leavitt offered the most MAGA-ready answer imaginable: “It’s just a fact.” Democracy Docket+1

But here’s the truth: this is not about “election integrity.” It’s about control. Trump’s team knows they can’t win when everyone votes, so their answer is to ensure fewer people can. His previous efforts tried to force states to demand proof of citizenship just to register to vote — a move blocked by federal courts. Common Dreams+2Democracy Docket+2 Now he’s back, recycling the same baseless lies that judges, investigations and his own Justice Department have already shredded. PolitiFact+1

Earlier on his platform, Truth Social, Trump called the California measure a “GIANT SCAM” and claimed the entire process was “RIGGED” — no evidence, no data — just the same frothing conspiracy nonsense that’s become his trademark. SFGATE+1

Legal experts and democracy defenders are already calling it what it is: a blatant power grab that would disenfranchise millions of Americans — especially voters of color, the elderly, people with disabilities and working-class citizens who rely on mail-in ballots to make their voices heard. Common Dreams+1

ACLU Voting Rights Project director Sophia Lin Lakin didn’t mince words: this effort “threatens to disenfranchise tens of millions of eligible voters” and “intrudes on states’ constitutional authority.” Common Dreams

Gavin Newsom nailed it in a post on X, calling Trump’s rant “the ramblings of an old man who knows he’s about to lose.” Meanwhile, California’s Secretary of State Shirley Weber reminded voters plainly: “California elections have been validated by the courts… California voters will not be deceived by someone who consistently makes desperate, unsubstantiated attempts to dissuade Americans from participating in our democracy.” California Secretary of State+1

Across the country, Americans went to the polls and delivered a stunning rebuke to MAGA incompetence and authoritarianism — from Virginia to New York to California. And what did Trump do? He decided to remind the nation what he really fears: a free, fair, multi-ethnic democracy that doesn’t bow to him.

He can rant. He can rage. He can post “STAY TUNED” like a wannabe dictator teasing a coup. But the truth is simple: there is no voter-fraud crisis. The only fraud here is Trump pretending to care about democracy while plotting to dismantle it.

Every time he screams “rigged,” what he really means is: “I’m losing.”
And every time he threatens to use executive power to stop people from voting, it’s proof that he knows the American people have his number.

Trump doesn’t want to “protect” elections — he wants to own them. But in America, elections don’t belong to presidents. They belong to us. And no executive order, no tantrum, and no “it’s just a fact” gaslighting from the MAGA press room can change that.

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