Trump’s eleventh-hour midterm threat a setup for a bigger lie: legal expert

The Trump administration’s “unprecedented” escalation in its campaign to exert more control over the midterms is part of a grander scheme to create a contingency plan should Republicans suffer a “devastating” election loss, legal expert Joyce Vance theorized Saturday.“That’s what we need to be on guard for here,” Vance wrote in an analysis published Saturday night on her Substack. “Trump is already laying the groundwork to claim another election was stolen, rather than accept a result he doesn’t like.”This week, the Justice Department demanded that California not send ballots to a list of individuals it suspected were noncitizens, along with several other demands. The DOJ gave California officials 48 hours to comply under threat of legal action, which the agency followed up on Thursday.However, as flagged by Vance, who previously served as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, it seemed “pretty obvious” that the Trump administration’s plan...