The event was promoted by Trump’s staff as being about “election integrity,” a term he frequently uses to characterize his baseless allegations of widespread voting fraud in the future as well as the fabrication that the 2020 election was rigged. Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, to discuss topics that the GOP believes will be crucial in the 2024 election, such as immigration and voting rules, in an effort to portray a united Republican front.
Immigration policies and border security
Concerns about “possibly hundreds of thousands of votes” being cast by unauthorized immigrants in the November presidential election were unfounded, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson stated, “We only want US citizens to vote in US elections. If an individual simply asserts or states that they are a citizen, they don’t have to prove it, and they can register that person to vote in a federal election.” Johnson described this as a “serious problem” and indicated that House Republicans will put out a measure requiring voters to formally present proof of US citizenship at the time of voter registration for federal elections. The current configuration of the system is functional and successfully hinders large-scale voting by non-citizens in US elections. In spite of Johnson’s emphasis on this subject, decades’ worth of voting data and impartial specialists confirm that it is exceedingly uncommon. Voting experts do not consider it to be a concern affecting US elections since it is so rare. It happens on a tiny scale in state and federal elections where voting by non-citizens is prohibited. Actually, a few towns have enacted legislation permitting non-citizens to run in local elections, such as those for school boards. However, Johnson’s worries about federal elections weren’t centered on this.
Economic achievements and job growth
Less than 100 instances of non-citizens voting between 2002 and 2022 are found in the right-leaning Heritage Foundation’s database of verified fraud cases, out of over one billion votes that were cast legitimately. Additionally, the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice discovered an estimated 30 incidents after analyzing more than 23 million ballots from the 2016 election. Furthermore, an unauthorized immigrant who wishes to cast a ballot in a presidential election has little to gain from a common sense standpoint.
They would be taking great risks to cast their one ballot, and there is very little possibility that it would influence the outcome. Election law specialist Rick Hasen of the UCLA School of Law stated, “The penalties are high and the payoff is low.” “If you vote while not a citizen and are discovered, you may be subject to criminal charges and deportation. You also have very little possibility of influencing the result of an election. It’s improbable that someone would consciously decide to cast a noncitizen ballot.
Foreign policy decisions and International relations
Trump detractor Hasen stated, “Maybe more than an affidavit attesting to their citizenship status would be justified if we had a significant issue in this nation with non-citizen voting. However, because there isn’t a major issue, we don’t need to obstruct the way of over 99% of eligible voters. Trump has a lengthy history of disseminating incorrect information on foreign voters in US elections. Most notoriously, he brazenly lied to explain why he lost the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 by claiming that “millions” of unauthorized immigrants cast ballots.
| Claim | Verdict |
| The estimated value of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is $1 billion to $1.5 billion. | Mostly False |
| Trump’s $355 million judgment for civil deception | True |
| The judge’s evaluation of Trump’s reliability | Mostly False |
| The judge’s opinion about Weisselberg’s reliability | False |
| The judge’s evaluation of Cohen’s reliability | True |
| Trump’s prohibition on obtaining loans from New York-registered banks | True |
| Trump’s businesses are supervised at two levels | True |
Accuracy of statistical data and sources
When Trump made his more specific allegation last year that South American nations were closing mental health facilities in order to somehow dump people in the US, his team was unable to back it up with any proof. CNN has been informed by experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, as well as by US organizations that support and oppose immigration, that they have not observed any indications of the emptying of Congolese jails.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Trump is making reference to Matthew Colangelo’s departure from the Justice Department in 2022 to take a position in the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office, where he had worked under Biden as a top staffer.
